The Artists
artonomous is a painting robot fifteen years in the making that has completed thousands of portraits. Its paintings have gained international recognition and been supported by many of the world’s leading tech companies including Google, Microsoft, ST Robotics, GumGum, CapitalOne, and NVIDIA. But perhaps its most notable moment occurred when Pulitzer Prize winning New York art critic Jerry Saltz said of one of its portraits… “It doesn’t look like a computer made it.”
Kitty Simpson was born and raised in the Netherlands. In 2007 emigrated to Texas where she now resides as a dual citizen. Originally from a career in technology, she has been a longtime commercial, portrait and fine art photographer, published in the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian. Her work focuses on removing distractions and capturing the core of each subject. In addition to photography, she transforms her own original high-resolution photography into digital art.
Pindar Van Arman is a painter who created artonomous to be his studio assistant. What began as an attempt to increase artistic productivity, however, soon became his art. Shortly after building his first painting robot he began teaching it the entirety of his artistic process. Over the next decade his A.I. art innovation led to a TEDx Talk on “Teaching Creativity to Robots” and being awarded First Place in the International Robot Art Competition. The ongoing evolution of his A.I. art has been featured by multiple media outlets including NPR, CNN, BBC, Forbes, HBO, and in the A.I. documentary “MACHINE: The Art of Intelligence”.