Darwin and the Creator

The Creator

An interactive performance work. " Once the instrument is created, its operational requirements shape the form of its members " Project Description This art project is a continuation of my work from last semester. I am currently working on the non-trivial problem of large scale robotic control of a marionette-type puppet. I am focusing as well on the control environment or the 'world' of the Cr...

Artificial Intelligence and the Creator

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made great strides in five decades. Some scientists believe it is merely a matter of time before AI achieves human levels of intelligence. They base their argument on the fact that any human act which can be reduced to algorithms (there are theorists who argue that this includes everything) can be emulated by a computer program. An algorithm is a step by step pr...

Evolution and a Creator

This book may be an important contribution to an argument developing in the scientific world about the origin of man. Darwin's theory of Evolution by Natural Selection was in its time a concept so heretical that it took Darwin, a Christian believer, many years before he could commit himself to expound it. It is now so universally accepted that to question it or to seek to modify it is almost eq...

Outsider Art and the autistic creator.

Outsider Art (art brut) is defined as a mode of original artistic expression which thrives on its independence, shunning the public sphere and the art market. Such art can be highly idiosyncratic and secretive, and reflects the individual creator's attempt to construct a coherent, albeit strange, private world. Certain practitioners of what may be termed autistic art are examined in the light o...

Closer to the Creator : Temporal