But why would anyone want to use computers to create art? What is the motivation? Isn’t art meant to be an outpouring of the human code? Why get a computer to artificially generate art? Is it commercial? Are the creators trying to make money by pressing ‘print’ and running off endless new pieces of art? Or is this meant to be a new tool to extend our own creativity? Why do we as humans create art? Why is Richter’s work regarded as art while a book of Dulux colour samples is not? Do we even know what this thing we call art really is? Where did it all begin?
