Zanelle

A Zanelle is an artwork painted by a robot. It differs from other forms of machine made art such as Lithographs and Giclée, in that the artwork is made up of actual brush strokes and artist grade paints. Many Zanelles are indistinguishable from artist created paintings and pass an artistic equivalent of the Turing test.

One of the first Zanelle painters was AARON, an artificial intelligence/artist developed by Professor Harold Cohen, UCSD, in the mid 1970's. Another pioneer in the field, Ken Goldberg of UC Berkeley created an 11' x 11' painting machine in 1992. Multiple other robotic painters exist though none are currently mass produced.

External links

* [http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/index-flash.html Ken Goldberg's Homepage]

* [http://www.scinetphotos.com/aaron.html Description of Harold Cohen's AARON]

* [http://www.zanelle.com Pindar Van Arman's Zanelle creation]