The Semiotic Approach to the AI Art of Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri
Explorations of AI Art — Episode 19
Beth Jochim, Director and Co-Founder at Cueva Gallery. Twitter: @_bblurred
“Philosophical unease provides the raw substance that I use to grow my artworks.” — Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri.
Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri is an artist and academic currently living between Leicester, UK, and Berlin, Germany. His artistic career started in 2006 when he founded the art group [+ zero] that has participated, over a period of 13 years, in many international festivals and exhibitions including Ars Electronica. As a solo artist, he started to investigate the relationships that take place among humans, machines, and philosophical concepts. His artworks have been exhibited worldwide and are in prestigious collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
His work as an artist and researcher revolves around the dialogue between Artificial Intelligence and creativity, applying machine and deep learning techniques for the creation and the design of narratives, moving images and objects.
Poltronieri’s passion for programming, seen by the artist as a creative expression per se, finds its roots in his childhood when he started to teach himself to code at the age of eight. With degrees in Maths, Education and Culture, and a PhD in Semiotics with a thesis about the role of chance in computational art, he is an Associate Professor at De Montfort University, Leicester, where he teaches creative code in the Digital Arts MA and supervises PhD students. He is also a prolific author and a permanent member of the IOCT (Institute of Creative Technologies) at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Full interview on Cueva Gallery’s website: https://cuevagallery.com/blogs/explorations-of-ai-art/fabrizio-augusto-poltronieri
