"Intelligent Agents and Artistic Creation"

Supervised by Professor WM Holcombe

Abstract

"I believe that you can reach the point where there is no difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing..." Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum (London 1989)"

Generally, people perceive abstract art as a contemporary phenomenon, which breaks the idea that paintings must depict reality. It is considered as an innovative art with remarkable development in the 20th century, and leads people to appreciate artworks in a new way.

The intention of this dissertation is to develop a piece of autonomous software which can generate artistic graphical images in Malevich's Suprematist style. By transacting interactions from a user, the software automatically simulate and construct graphical images according to some artistic evaluations based on a series of strategies. These strategies depend on restrictive built-in rules that extract painting approaches from existing Suprematist opuses. Further more, users can employ the image processing adaptor to edit or extend generated images according to their inspiration and taste.