2018 - Obvious art manifesto - Obvious AI & Art

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We at Obvious wish to explore, use and share the different ways machine learning algorithms can empower our natural reativity. The notion of creativity is extremely hard to encapsulate, at it seems to be a process implying a number of factors that are not yet properly defined. Through the replication of human behaviour in a creative context, we see algorithms as a fascinating tool to dig into and better understand the different forces at stake in the process of creating something new, unique and innovative. We witnessed examples of algorithms helping humans improving their creativity within framed scenarios such as in a chess game or a GO game.

We wish to demonstrate that algorithms help us complete our understanding of how we function as humans, and push us to outsmart our current level of creativity.

Through the creation of comprehensible artworks and by collaborating with the major actors that shape our society, our art collective wishes to shred some light on the emerging tools available. We believe that a new generation of creators will rise, one that will know how to build and manage algorithms that will help in an innovative process. We also want to promote a new level of collaboration between an artist and his tool, where the hands of the artist and the one of the machine are joined in the search of a new type of aesthetic and a deeper conceptual framework.

By staying up to date with the latest research and finding artistic applications to the tools being discovered, we bring knowledge and future perspective to the world, by reducing the gap between research and applications.

Science and art have always been complementary. We can observe examples of this symbiosis everywhere from the works on geometry that helped artists building perspective in their work and the chemical creation of new types of pigments that allowed declining colors while keeping their intensity, to the creation of the camera that multiplied the facility of access to visual creation. We encourage this dynamic by exploring different types of art through the angle of a set of algorithms, and help reconcile the old and the new by and reducing the differences in perspectives of apprehension of the issue.

We wish to contribute to the debate regarding the scope and nature of art, and allow once again the definition of art to grow and evolve with the era it evolves in. We believe that this can be done both by proposing new example of creations, and working directly on redefining the creation process as a whole, thus providing new insights on the question of the place the artist takes in it.

Technology has always been at the service of human ambitions as the best tool to push our limits. Mostly, it is the way humans use it that will shape the future of our society. This is why Obvious focuses on accompanying the emergence of benevolent and harmless ideas, by promoting alternative uses for it, and unveiling its true creative potential.

“Computer are useless. They can only give answers.”

Well Picasso (1881 - 1973), it’s a disagreement

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