The A.I. generated portraits of robots are of Kansei (Robot Science Laboratory. Meiji University. Tokyo), Telenoid (Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories. Osaka University) and Ai-Da (Aidan Meller, UK). These original photos were taken by Wanda Tuerlinckx with her wooden box camera from the late 1800s. Ai-Da herself is a robot painter who uses her AI brain and her eyes to draw, paint and sculpt.
The GAN-based fusion of classical paintings with today’s android robots produces faces that are an amalgamation of artistic styles, cultures, genders and human expressions.
Text Erwin R Boer 2020