Historical context & research account
Cohen begins conceiving AARON in the late 1960s and names and develops it during the 1970s. Instead of learning from a massive image dataset, AARON encodes his knowledge of drawing, representation and composition as rules. It offers an important comparison: machine art need not depend on scraping or style appropriation, so contemporary anti-AI politics cannot simply be equated with opposition to all machine-made art.
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Date displayed for this node：late 1960s–1970s · Date recorded in the research master：1970s
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Archive node #014 · Historical node
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AI Art Genealogy Research Master · p. 7 · 014
Date as recorded: 1970s
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. AARON. Art-history node #014. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/art-history/014
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