Making art with artificial intelligence

Eryk Salvaggio teaches AI systems to create art. What does it say about our connection to technology? Many people thinking of an artist at work might imagine a painter poring over preliminary sketches or a sculptor shaping clay into the perfect pot. But what, then, are we to make of artists like Eryk Salvaggio of Irondequoit, who spends hours turning digital information and computer datasets into collages of images, text, and sound?…