Harold
Cohen, former director of the Center for Research in Computing
and the Arts (CRCA), was an English painter with an established
international reputation when he came to UCSD in 1968 for a one-year
Visiting Professorship. His first experience with computing followed
almost immediately, and he never returned to London. Cohen is
the author of the celebrated AARON program, an ongoing research
effort in autonomous machine (art making) intelligence which began
when he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Artificial
Intelligence Lab in 1973. Together, Cohen and AARON have exhibited
at London's Tate Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum and many more
of the world's major art spaces. They have also been shown at
a dozen science centers, including the Ontario Science Center,
the Boston Science Museum and the Los Angeles Museum of Science
and Industry. Cohen represented the US in the World Fair in Tsukuba,
Japan, in 1985. He has a permanent exhibit devoted to his work
in Boston's Computer Museum.
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One of the few artists ever to have become deeply involved
in artificial intelligence, Cohen has given invited papers on
his work at major international conferences on AI, computer graphics
and art technologies. His work is widely cited in the literature,
and it is the subject of Pamela McCorduck's AARON's CODE: Meta-Art,
Artificial Intelligence, and the Work of Harold Cohen (Freeman).
In more than two decades AARON has produced many thousands
of drawings, to a few dozen of which Cohen has added color. The
goal of his current research -- by far the most difficult to date,
he says -- is to have AARON do its own coloring. This phase of
the project is now well under way. The painting machine with which
AARON colored real drawings in the real world was premiered at
an exhibit at the Computer Museum in Boston in the spring of 1995.
Harold
Cohen, former director of the Center for Research in Computing
and the Arts (CRCA), was an English painter with an established
international reputation when he came to UCSD in 1968 for a one-year
Visiting Professorship. His first experience with computing followed
almost immediately, and he never returned to London. Cohen is
the author of the celebrated AARON program, an ongoing research
effort in autonomous machine (art making) intelligence which began
when he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Artificial
Intelligence Lab in 1973. Together, Cohen and AARON have exhibited
at London's Tate Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum and many more
of the world's major art spaces. They have also been shown at
a dozen science centers, including the Ontario Science Center,
the Boston Science Museum and the Los Angeles Museum of Science
and Industry. Cohen represented the US in the World Fair in Tsukuba,
Japan, in 1985. He has a permanent exhibit devoted to his work
in Boston's Computer Museum.