How Does AI Change the Way We Perceive Art?

Images Made by Machines, for Machines
Last fall Christie’s sold a computer-generated painting titled Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, from la Famille de Belamy (2018) for $432,500. (Early estimates had peaked around $10,000.) A blurred portrait of a chubby man in a frock coat, the work, per Christie’s, was created “by an artificial intelligence, an algorithm,” the algebraic formula for which, “with its many parenthesis,” was written out in the painting’s lo