Question
This artist painted over biomorphic forms drawn out by computer and assembled the components into a tree-like shape to create his piece Socrates’ Garden. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this pioneering British artist who created the primitive AI AARON to generate artworks in the 1970s.
ANSWER: Harold Cohen
[10e] In 1983, visitors to this London museum could watch AARON constantly generate drawings from four robotic arms. This museum’s Turbine Hall has featured large installations like Olafur Eliasson’s The Weather Project.
ANSWER: Tate Modern [prompt on Tate]
[10m] An artist from this country programmed a set of rules she termed machines imaginaires on to a computer to generate hundreds of abstract geometric works, including the painting In Search of Paul Klee. An op artist born in this country created a painting of two zebras overlapping against a black background.
ANSWER: Hungary [or Magyarország] (The unnamed painters are Vera Molnár and Victor Vasarely.)
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