Electronic Art Changes to Suit Mood of Viewer

BFlatSeven writes "Reuters reports that 'British and American computer scientists have developed artwork that changes according to how the viewer feels. Special software picks up facial cues and adapts the color and brush strokes of the digital image.' The University of Bath has some pictures of the painting in action as well as a video and an abstract written by the creators."

Comments

Great

[Spacejock]

So when I'm down and want cheering up, they show me depressing pictures. Fantastic.

Re:Holy Shit

[marcello_dl]

The other problem is that I and possibly other people prefer hard-wired art, you know, the good ol' idea of art provoking emotions, not responding to them.

Re:No doubt it is electronic,

[tverbeek]

If every piece about which someone once said "that's not art" were removed from the art museums of the world, it would leave acres of empty walls. Pop art, environmental art, de Stijl, Expressionist, Fauve, Impressionist, Surreal, Dada, Cubist... were all dismissed as "not art". And many of the great classic works were done in styles or with techniques that were - at first - dismissed as "bad art". I don't go quite so far as the folks who claim that anything the artist declares to be art is art, but the flip side of the coin, simply saying that something isn't art doesn't make that so, either.

Re:Holy Shit

[marcello_dl]

The distinction between "art" and "the latest way to use technology to impress people" is the problem. I dont really imply art cant be made that way, just as a circus number can indeed be art. But the problem is that most circus numbers are not art, it is a discovery to the extreme of human and animal capabilities.