Waiting For the Robot Rembrandt - Issue 57: Communities

The cellist Jan Vogler famously claimed that art is what makes us human. But what if machines start making art too? Here's an example of a piece of art made by an artificial intelligence (AI): On the right side of the picture is a computer running an AI that has been trained with images of graffiti. It controls a plotting head that sprays water onto concrete blocks, on the left. The resulting patterns are a form of computer-generated art. Is this fine art in the true sense?