- How do artists make a living in a world where art can be produced just by typing in a few words? Could art stagnate with machine produced simulacra silting up the flow of human art and creativity? Or are we missing the potential of machine art to enhance the art world? We explore this creative uncanny valley with Arthur I. Miller, author of The Artist […]
- Curious as to how GPT-4 “thinks” about creativity I asked it two questions: What is creativity? How can we improve our creativity? Simple questions invite bland responses and some detail is necessary for GPT-4 to show its mettle. Its replies exhibit an uncanny understanding of both the process and end result of creative thinking. Perhaps […]
- Based on my conversation with Ashfaq Ishaq – in ChildArt, The Magazine of the International Child Art Foundation, January/March 2022, pp. 24-25.
- Most people agree that AIs can create art. But can they truly be artists? This question cuts right to the heart of AI because it raises the issue of whether AIs can possess attributes of living beings, even though they are alien life forms. If so their intelligence will no longer be ‘artificial’ but as […]
- In discussion with Nir Hindi on what the future holds for human and machine creativity. […]
- In conversation with Ludovic Assemat at the invitation of the British Council Spain. […]
- On March 11, 2021, the auction house Christie’s sold a work by an American graphic designer, Michael Winkelmann, a.k.a. Beeple, for a colossal $69 million, making it the third most expensive work ever sold by a living artist. The work, Everydays: The First 5000 Days, is a nonfungible token, or NFT. It’s a computer file that […]
- Today computers are creating an extraordinary new world of images, sounds and stories such as we have never experienced before […]
- Join physicist and author Arthur I. Miller (The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity, 2019), composer and media artist Doug Geers, artist and hacktivist Ricardo Dominguez, and award-winning director of algorithmic theatre, Annie Dorsen for a mind-bending session on the complex intersections of artists, machines, and the future of artistic experiences. […]
- In this episode of SIGGRAPH Spotlight, SIGGRAPH 2021 Special Projects Chair Ian Failes (editor, “befores & afters”) hosts a discussion on the intersection of AI, VR, and technology. Guest Arthur Miller (researcher and author), discusses how the mind shapes experiences and interactions, creativity challenges that stem from AI, VR, and technology, and AI’s role in […]
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Creativity in the Age of Machines – Interview in Interalia Magazine
Richard Bright: The February issue aims to explore what it means (and will mean) to be human in the age of Artificial Intelligence. It would be good to start with how we define intelligence, both in terms of human intelligence and our growing understanding of animal intelligence. It is obviously a complex, multi-faceted entity, (and maybe…
Music inspired by my book ‘137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession’
Pauli’s Dreams Composed by Patrick Liddell who writes: Eight transcendental works of eclectic and fantastic design, a smorgasbord of sonic delights, Pauli’s Dreams delves into the world of the subconscious, where our thoughts and hopes and dreams and fears mingle. Each song looks at dreams and reason at a different angle; the whole object being…
There are many ways to blend science and theatre…
An episode of discovery perhaps, like Albert Einstein’s discovery of relativity theory as told in the recent television series, Genius; merging politics, science and world events, as in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen; or using science as the backdrop to the plot, which is the case in Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes. What is paramount to such projects is to avoid bombarding…
Book review by Arthur I. Miller in Physics World
Trafficking in big ideas A recent book review of mine of a biography of John Horton Conway, creator of the Game of Life, discoverer of much more. Some minds never cease to fascinate. They soar over difficulties and spot connections between fields that are invisible to others. They traffic in the big ideas. The mind…
New video! Gresham College Lecture on Creativity in Art and Creativity in Science
The lecture from the event at Gresham College on 24 October 2013 is now available to view.
Fearless symmetries
Sciences and the arts are re-entering each other’s orbits in a burst of boundary-blurring creativity, Arthur I. Miller observes Sciart – science-inspired art – still retains something of the cachet of the underground, but it now seems poised to emerge into the light of day. Take, for example, this year’s Ars Electronica, the leading annual…
Henri Poincaré: the unlikely link between Einstein and Picasso
Today, 17 July 2012, is the centenary of the death of the great French polymath Henri Poincaré, once described as the “last of the universalists”. His achievements span mathematics (he set the basis for chaos theory), physics (his mathematical methods are still used in studying elementary particles), philosophy (his framework for exploring scientific theories is…
Exploring the Possibilities of Interdisciplinarity at Tällberg
Tällberg is a tiny Swedish village situated on Lake Silja, produced in its own big bang by a meteor some 365 million years ago. The now-idyllic area still reverberates, intellectually that is, as the site of the Tällberg Forum, the brainchild of the dynamic Bo Ekman, always full of ideas, wisdom and fabulous conversation on…
Times Higher Education Interview
[…] [Susan] Aldworth featured in an exhibition, Art & Science: Merging Art & Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art Movement, at the GV Art Gallery in London last year (its current group exhibition, Polymath, explores similar themes). Long at the forefront of the science/art or “sciart” movement, this is the only independent commercial gallery…
Book review by Arthur I Miller in New Scientist
Give them an inch World in the Balance: The historic quest for an absolute system of measurement by Robert P. Crease PRECISION and fastidiousness – at first blush the quest for a precise system of measurement might seem a plodding pursuit. But as philosopher Robert P. Crease makes clear in World in the Balance, it…
New Scientist art review
Escape artists: Breaking out of the lab By Tiffany O’Callaghan, CultureLab editor New Scientist – CultureLab – 12 July, 2011 Art & Science: Merging Art & Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art Movement […] Curated by historian of science and author Arthur Miller, the show is meant to explore the meaning, and boundaries, of…
Times Higher Education art review
Artifice that shapes our ends By Matthew Reisz Times Higher Education – The Pick – 7 July, 2011 Art & Science: Merging Art & Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art Movement Davide Angheleddu’s corroded bronze sculptures transform the illustrations of plankton taken from a 1904 book by the German philosopher and naturalist Ernst Haeckel,…
Merging Art & Science – e-Catalogue available online
Art & Science: Merging Art & Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art Movement Exhibition at GV Art Gallery, London 8 July – 24 September 2011 Click here to download exhibition e-Catalogue in PDF format Merging Art & Science Science is changing our world and our lives at an ever-increasing rate. But today artists are…
Book review by Arthur I. Miller in Physics World
A scientist, not a cartoon Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science by Lawrence Krauss Since his death in 1988, Richard Feynman has become something of an industry. In addition to several biographies, there are published collections of Feynman’s essays and lectures, including just about every scrap of paper he ever scribbled on. Much of…
Listen to Arthur I Miller on Resonance.fm
Click the play button below to listen to Technology’s Impact On The Modern World by Professor Arthur Miller, an interview on Henry Scott-Irvine Presents on Resonance.fm. Technology's Impact On The Modern World By Professor Arthur Miller by Henry Scott-Irvine Presents on Mixcloud
Arthur I. Miller interviewed on creativity in art and science
Art and science: bonded by creativity If you were asked to define creativity, what would you say? The chances are that your definition will vary with others – many others. There is no instruction manual. While the creation of certain products may follow a ruleset, this process isn’t creativity per se. So, creativity is perhaps…
Watch Arthur I. Miller on BBC News Special ‘Japan: The Catastrophe’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEpG7W5fGc In a BBC News Special ‘Japan: The Catastrophe’, Humphrey Hawksley reports on Japan’s worst crisis since the Second World War, and looks at the implications for the future. Arthur I Miller comments on the nuclear part of the situation.
Watch Arthur I. Miller in conversation at Jaipur Literature Festival
Stranger than fiction Arthur I. Miller in conversation with Abha Dawesar at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2011. Presented by ICCR Watch session video below: D5DH 01-(94) from Dreamcast.in on Vimeo.
Watch Arthur I. Miller on BBC4’s ‘Beautiful Equations’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_QoEUmwVPU Artist and writer Matt Collings takes the plunge into an alien world of equations. He asks top scientists to help him understand five of the most famous equations in science, talks to Stephen Hawking about his equation for black holes and comes face to face with a particle of anti-matter. Along the way he…
Book review by Arthur I. Miller in New Scientist
Eureka! Genius unravelled Extraordinary thinkers, not ordinary people, are key to understanding creativity, says Arthur I. Miller in his book review of Sudden Genius? The gradual path to creative genius by Andrew Robinson, Oxford University Press. Click here to read the article.
Essay on Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli in The Psychologist
Looking Back: The Odd Couple Arthur I. Miller on a meeting of minds between Carl Jung and the physicist Wolfgang Pauli The Psychologist magazine – July 2010 More than 20 years ago I was intrigued to discover that the renowned physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the great psychologist Carl Jung had co-authored a book entitled The…
Interview and Book Review in CERN Courier
Creativity and intellect: when great minds meet CERN Courier, 31 March 2010. Interview and book review by Beatrice Bressan Writer and science historian Arthur I Miller talks about his interdisciplinary approach to the creative process, which underlies his recent book on Pauli and Jung. […] Read full interview on line Do you think there is…
Listen to Arthur I. Miller on ‘The Strand’ on the BBC World Service
Listen to Arthur I. Miller on The Strand here. Walking in My Mind The Hayward Gallery in London has been transformed into to a giant brain this week for the opening of a ground breaking exhibition “Walking in my mind”. The idea behind it is to show that as well as neuroscientists and philosophers, visual…
Listen to Arthur I. Miller on ‘The Forum’ on the BBC World Service
Listen to Arthur I. Miller on The Forum here. Podcast available to download here. View image gallery of Arthur I. Miller and Bridget Kendall recording the programme here. THE FORUM, the ideas programme with BRIDGET KENDALL. Indian environmentalist SUNITA NARAIN on our wasteful attitude to water. American-British physicist and historian of science ARTHUR I MILLER…
‘Einstein, Picasso’ meeting – Dortmund, Germany, March 2009
In March 2009 the British Council convened a meeting in Dortmund, Germany, exploring creativity in art and science, directly inspired by my book Einstein, Picasso. Read more here.
What happens when art and science come together?
Can there be a relationship between art and science? Do they have anything in common and if so, what? Have they got anything to contribute to each other? What do artists have to say about science? What do scientists have to say about art? What happens when art and science come together? I often disagree…