Enhancing Viewer’s Emotional Connections to the Traditional Art Creative Process via an Ai Interactive System

The goal of our research is to enhance the traditional museum viewer experience by constructing an interactive exhibition piece where viewers can emotionally interact with the act of creating a fine art painting. Through our interactive Creative Artificial Intelligence System (CAIS) which generates art portraiture, we try to recognize what our users are experiencing (emotionally) when they view art work by considering their emotional responses in creating and evolving their portrait painting and using that as input within our system. Ultimately we hope that our CAIS system can bring unique learning tools to art education and appreciation by focusing on affect as one of the main elements within the interaction -where emotion is constructed, interpreted and given meaning in a dialogue between the user and the generated art of the system, or between many art viewing users through a system.