2. Memo Akten is another visionary AI artist
Memo Akten is a London-based AI artist, researchers and "philomath" who uses AI to reflect on how we, as humans, make sense of the world. His body of work is astounding in its depth and breadth.
One example, though there are many, is called "Deep Meditations." For this piece, a one-hour long immersive film, he trained a neural network to "see" images that represent some essential concepts of human life.
Using a stock of images that he tagged as things like everything, world, universe, space, mountains, etc, the AI was left to its own devices to create its own representations of these terms. The results need to be seen to be believed.
3. Mario Klingemann is another great AI artist
Mario Klingemann is yet another leading pioneer in AI art. Using neural networks, code, and algorithms, he creates amazing pieces of artwork.
One of his pieces, "Memories of Passersby I," made the news headlines a few years back when it became one of the first AI art pieces to sell at auction.
In 2015 he won the Creative Award of the British Library. Currently, he is also a machine learning artist in residence at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris.
4. Refik Anadol is a Turkish AI artist with a twist
Turkish AI artist Refik Anadol is another important and interesting AI artist. He uses machine learning (ML) to produce interactive AI projects that inspire audiences around the world.
He tends to focus on transforming architectural spaces, and facades, into giant canvasses for his live media AI-driven art. One of his most recent works involved using ML and years of footage from the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s archives to produce a dynamic, and evolving video-art piece projected on the outside of the building.
5. Helena Sarin uses GAN's to create stunning art pieces
Helena Sarin is another pioneering AI artist whose weapon of choice is GANs. She is a self-declared visual artist and software engineer who loves to play with cutting edge technologies wherever she can find them.
"She found that working with generative models is not only challenging but above all exhilarating. With GANs, there is the adventure of new models and new datasets." - aiartists.org.