Pilot: Art(ificial): Generation of Creative Visual Metaphor for Communicating Intension

艺术可以是一种深刻的交流媒介，也是创作过程的一个明确例子。这个项目在人造艺术家的背景下探索创造力--一种产生视觉表现的系统，目的是向观众传达内在的概念。通过这种交流体验到与艺术家的联系的观众会被隐含地、强烈地影响到将创造力归因于艺术家。由于创作者通过他人的感知被认为是(或不是)有创造力的，创造力的一个重要方面是创作者能够或明或暗地说服他人他或她拥有这种属性。最初，该项目将专注于构建一个系统，该系统基于主题图像自主创建视觉艺术，并通过解释其主题选择、风格选择等以及可能的人工制品旨在传达的概念来推销自己。最终，该项目将从一个内部概念模型开始工作，以产生一个旨在隐含地传达该概念的人工制品。该项目的成功完成将产生一个可归因于创造力的计算系统，并将探索创造力在通过视觉隐喻理解和交流概念方面的作用。该项目将涉及广泛领域的工作，包括计算机视觉、自然语言处理、认知科学、设计和艺术，这表明在这些领域的几个交叉领域可能会取得有趣的进展。该项目还启动了与艺术界的对话，讨论人工系统是否能成功地与人类接受者建立这种抽象交流；例如，我们与西部山区最大、参观人数最多的艺术博物馆之一建立了合作关系，他们表示愿意开展一项重要的展览活动。

Art can be a profound communication medium and is an explicit example of creative process. This project explores creativity in the context of an artificial artist -- a system that produces visual representation for the purpose of communicating an internal concept to the viewer. Viewers that experience a connection to the artist via this communication are implicitly and powerfully influenced to attribute creativity to the artist. Since creators are seen to be (or not to be) creative through the perceptions of others, a significant aspect of creativity is the ability of the creator to convince others, explicitly or implicitly, that he or she possesses the attribute. Initially, the project will focus on constructing a system that autonomously creates visual art based on a subject image and markets itself by explaining its selection of subject, choice of style, etc. and possibly the concept the artefact is intended to convey. Eventually, the project will work from an internal concept model to produce an artefact intended to implicitly communicate that concept. The successful completion of the project will result in a computational system to which creativity can be attributed and will explore the role of creativity in understanding and communicating concepts through visual metaphor. The project will involve work in a broad variety of fields including computer vision, natural language processing, cognitive science, design and art, suggesting the potential for interesting advances at the intersection of several of these areas. The project also initiates a dialogue with the artistic community regarding whether artificial systems can successfully establish this kind of abstract communication with human recipients; for example, we have established a collaboration with one of the largest and best attended art museums in the Mountain West, and they have indicated a willingness to pursue a significant exhibition event.