but also inspire our perspectives on the future of art.
The variety of activities and research initiatives related to “AI and Art” can generally be divided into two categories: 1)
AI is used in the process of analyzing existing art; or 2) AI is used in the process of creating new art. In this paper,
relevant aspects and contributions of these two categories are discussed, with a particular focus on the relation of
AI to visual arts. In recent years, there has been a surge of interest among artists, technologists and researchers in
exploring the creative potential of AI technologies. The use of AI in the process of creating visual art was signiﬁcantly
accelerated with the emergence of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) [56]. The growing number of artists
engaging in using AI technologies and the increasing interest from galleries and auction houses in AI Art, fosters
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