Discuss the shrinking distance between human consciousness and artificial intelligence, from the Mechanical Turk to the Turing Test to Google’s Deep Dream.

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Historical and theoretical implications of having machines BE Art, as well as having machines MAKE Art. Be specific in your analysis. How does biomimicry influence the design of robotic mechanisms, from the automatons of Pierre and Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz to the animalistic creatures made by Boston Dynamics? How do the Art Robots of Survival Research Labs, Chico MacMurtrie, and Ken Rinaldo build upon and challenge more traditional forms of robotic functionality? Discuss the shrinking distance between human consciousness and artificial intelligence, from the Mechanical Turk to the Turing Test to Google’s Deep Dream. Explore the roots of generative art and its relationship to the Conceptual Art Movement. How does working with Programming Codes, such as Harold Cohen’s AARON project and Casey Raes’ use of Processing, allow the artist to develop the framework for a piece while still producing unexpected/unintended results? Examine the use of graphical systems to represent complex information in the history of Data Visualization, particularly in the work of William Playfair and Charles Minard, and discuss how Jacques Bertin’s Permutation Matrix and John Tukey’s PRIM-9 predicted the dynamic querying and computational display of data today.

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