Art Must Be Artificial: Perspectives of AI in the Visual Arts

New and historical trends in computer art from around the globe

This volume surveys leading artists from Saudi Arabia and around the world for whom computer technology figures centrally. Drawn mostly from the computer art collection of the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation in Switzerland, the work featured spans the 1960s to the present. The catalog studies both the pioneers and emerging practitioners of computing art, assembling a history of the interaction between art and technology.
Artists include: Davide Quayola, Frieder Nake, Harold Cohen, Vera Molnar, Manfred Mohr, Wang Yuyang, Lulwah Alhomoud, Peter Kogler, Riyoji Ikeda, Leo Villareal, Miguel Chevalier, Daniel Rozin, Casey Reas, Refik Anadol, Vj Um Amel, Nasser Alshemimry, Elias Crespin, Alan Rath, Anna Ridler, Yang Yongliang, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Edmond Couchot & Michel Bret, Haythem Zakaria, John Gerrard, Leonel Moura, Muhannad Shono, Yining Fei & Chuck Kuan, Eyad Maghazil, Aaajio, Daniah Al-saleh and Charles Sandison.