Review of Machine Art

Dear Colleagues,

MDPI has extended to us the honor of redesignating our “Review of Machine Art” as a "Topical Collection", i.e., a Special Issue which, because of its popularity, has been granted an ongoing status: the 32 articles published in this and our two previous "machine" Special Issues have already enjoyed, as of November 2022, a total of some 127,000 full-text views, and with two of these occupying first and second places in both Arts' top ten "Most Cited" and "Most Viewed" lists.

This does not mean, however, that we are looking forward to one day appearing on the digital library shelves of the future as a yard-wide set of musty volumes! The next two or three years will mark a critical inflection point in human evolution, and this is apparent to all of us—especially in the breath-taking progress currently being made by computer science in imitating the human skills involved in image creation. Open AI's DALL-E system, for example—by virtue of having digested some 650 million previously existing image/caption pairs—can produce realistic-seeming images based on arbitrarily specified descriptions; these images, moreover, exhibit an uncanny understanding of the complex three-dimensional geometry of the objects being depicted.

Yet, in its new experimental focus on visual creation—as opposed to its previous focus on purely rational board games—computer science is also acknowledging the mystique of the human aesthetic facility. It is now being recognized—hence the reality of the art/science rapprochement to which the current Topical Collection is dedicated—that this human facility must retain its time-honored place alongside our reasoning capacity as we look to the future; we therefore welcome the submission of scholarly research papers, essays, and communications falling anywhere within this vast and fascinating new prospect, and ranging in size from 12,000 (or more) to 2,500 words.

Prof. Dr. Frederic Fol Leymarie
Prof. Dr. Marian Mazzone
Dr. Marie Vicet
Glenn W. Smith
Collection Editors

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