Beauty: A Machine-Microbial Artwork

EasyChair Preprint 5439

Abstract

We discussBeauty, a hybrid biological-technological artwork, currently in development by Phylum, an experimental research collective an experimental research collective specializing in cultural production informed by the intersections of science, technology and the arts (and of which the authors are members of). The work is based upon an artificial intelligence agent that uses deep reinforcement learning to interact with and alter cultures of pattern-forming social bacteria in order to make them more aesthetically pleasing

Keyphrases: Deep Reinforcement Learning, World Model, bacterial colony, computational aesthetic evaluation, hybrid biological technological artwork, pattern-forming bacteria

@booklet{EasyChair:5439,
  author    = {Carlos Castellanos and Johnny Diblasi and Philippe Pasquier},
  title     = {Beauty: A Machine-Microbial Artwork},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 5439},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}