Question: How will computer science and machine intelligence apply to art?

Alison Whitaker answered on 23 Jun 2015:

Well there are different ways in which it can. The work I’m doing at the moment uses data manipulation techniques embedded in software I’ve designed which can help people understand things without having to go through a long manual analytic process. This can then be developed if you fit a dynamic model, so each time new data comes in to be analysed the software automatically refits the model to produce results. If it remembers previous models and can predict new models, this is considered machine learning.
Machine intelligence is really interesting. Another thing you can do is to develop something called a knowledge and relationship representation map. This can be on any subject, and can be extensible to any other subject. You can then have data marked up and categorised based on this knowledge, which can be interpreted and ‘understood’ by a machine.
In the arts the subject could be art, it could be a collection held at a Museum, or it could be how people might respond emotionally and behaviourally to different types of art.