AARON

A Program for Creating Original Paintings

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AARON is a computer program written by Harold Cohen that paints original works of art.

Aaron's History. From Kurzweil CyberArt Technologies, Inc. "Explore the links [offered] to learn more about how AARON works, to understand some of the challenges faced by Harold Cohen in trying to teach a machine to paint, and to explore the question, 'Is the computer being creative?'"

Can computers be creative? By Ben Silburn. BBC (November 11, 2001). "Creativity is one of those things which makes humans so special. But could there ever be a day when computers are composers, theoretical physicists, or artists? There are already a number of projects in artificial intelligence that try to recreate creativity in computers. Harold Cohen has spent his whole career designing a program called Aaron which creates original works of art. ... Working in a similar field, Viennese researchers are teaching a computer to play like a human pianist, finding patterns in the performance of real pianists. In other words, they are reducing a creative event to a sequence of rules. It is getting harder all the time to tell where man stops and machine starts."

Colouring Without Seeing: A Problem in Machine Creativity. By Harold Cohen. (1999). Just one of the many papers available in this collection of papers by Harold Cohen, creator of Aaron, the painter.