[Theory] REMINDER:TTIC Distinguished Lecture Series: ​A​aron Hertzmann, Adobe Research

[Brandie Jones via Theory]

*When:    * Wednesday, November 5th at *11 AM CT*



*Where:    *Talk will be given *live, in-person* at

                     TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue

                     5th Floor, Room 530


*Virtually:  *via Panopto (Livestream
<https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6d44d8c1-3c3c-4807-9499-b32800f3d9ac>
)



*Who:         *Aaron Hertzmann, Adobe Research

*Title:        *Can Computers Create Art?

*Abstract:  *Can AI algorithms make art, and be considered artists? Within
the past decade, the growth of new neural network algorithms has enabled
exciting new art forms with considerable public interest. These tools raise
recurring questions about their status as creators and their effect on the
arts. In this talk, I will discuss how these developments parallel the
development of previous artistic technologies, like oil paint, photography,
and traditional computer graphics, with many useful analogies between past
and current developments. I argue that art is a social phenomenon, that
“AI” algorithms will not have human-level intelligence in the foreseeable
future, and thus it is extremely unlikely that we will ever consider
algorithms to be artists.

However they, like past art technologies, will change the way we make and
understand art.

*Bio:*   Aaron Hertzmann is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Research, and
Affiliate Faculty at the University of Washington. He received a bachelor’s
degree in Computer Science and Art at Rice University and a PhD degree in
Computer Science from New York University. He was previously a Professor of
Computer Science at the University of Toronto for ten years. He has
published over 125 papers in computer graphics, AI, and the science of art.
He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, and winner of the 2024 SIGGRAPH
Computer Graphics Achievement Award.

Hos*t: Shiry Ginosar <shiry at ttic.edu>*

*Brandie Jones *
*Executive **Administrative Assistant*
*Outreach Administrator *
Toyota Technological Institute
6045 S. Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL  60637
www.ttic.edu
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