Being alive to the world: an artist's perspective on predictive processing

R Pepperell - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
I consider predictive processing (PP) from the perspective of an artist who also conducts
scientific research into art and perception. This paper presents artworks I have made and …

Active Divergence with Generative Deep Learning--A Survey and Taxonomy

T Broad, S Berns, S Colton, M Grierson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.05599, 2021 - arxiv.org
Generative deep learning systems offer powerful tools for artefact generation, given their
ability to model distributions of data and generate high-fidelity results. In the context of …

Visual anagrams: Generating multi-view optical illusions with diffusion models

D Geng, I Park, A Owens - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We address the problem of synthesizing multi-view optical illusions: images that change
appearance upon a transformation such as a flip or rotation. We propose a simple zero-shot …

Factorized diffusion: Perceptual illusions by noise decomposition

D Geng, I Park, A Owens - European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024 - Springer
Given a factorization of an image into a sum of linear components, we present a zero-shot
method to control each individual component through diffusion model sampling. For …

Preferences need inferences: Learning, valuation, and curiosity in aesthetic experience

S Van de Cruys, J Bervoets… - … international handbook of …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
In this chapter, we describe how the individual's active involvement with works of art
contributes to the experience of them. Based on a review of recent experimental work, we …

A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.

X Wang, Z Bylinskii, A Hertzmann… - Psychology of Aesthetics …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Visual ambiguity plays a key role in the perceptual experience of art and has been much
exploited by modernist and contemporary artists for aesthetic effects. But it remains unclear …

Artsheets for art datasets

R Srinivasan, E Denton, J Famularo… - Thirty-fifth conference …, 2021 - openreview.net
Machine learning (ML) techniques are increasingly being employed within a variety of
creative domains. For example, ML tools are being used to analyze the authenticity of …

Aesthetics and predictive processing: grounds and prospects of a fruitful encounter

J Frascaroli, H Leder, E Brattico… - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the last few years, a remarkable convergence of interests and results has emerged
between scholars interested in the arts and aesthetics from a variety of perspectives and …

Generative Models for the Psychology of Art and Aesthetics

A Hertzmann - Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper describes how computational generative models can describe aspects of the
artistic process, and how these generative models can provide tools for formulating and …

To See or Not to See: Understanding the Tensions of Algorithmic Curation for Visual Arts

R Srinivasan - The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Algorithmic recommendation is one of the most popular applications of machine learning
(ML) systems. While the implication of algorithmic recommendation has been studied in the …