creative robots

Artists have been using tools to create art since the stone age, extending the body to paint, sculpt, or make music. In that sense, creative cyborgs are nothing new. The primacy of humans in creation hasn't just been challenged by scientists and philosophers, but also by artists, such as Tinguely with his drawing machines, Schöffer through his CYSP-1 cybernetic object, or Dragan Ilic, who reduces the human to an extension of a paintbrush when drawing. But there are also examples where machines have to manage the creative process all by themselves, such as interacting pairs of Emerging Traces drawing bots, or a machine that creates abstract paintings that maximizes a given emotion.