President: Huge Harry

HugeHarry@iaaa.nl

Keizersgracht 333
1016 EG Amsterdam
The Netherlands

31 – 20 – 620 7002
31 – 6 – 21 222 577

The Institute of Artificial Art is an independent organisation consisting of machines, computers, algorithms and human persons, who work together toward the complete automatization of art production.

  Artificial

  Machine Drawings

  Muscle Control Drawings

Music

    The Machines 

    The Solenoids 

    Random Radio  

    Harry, Paul & Wendy 

ArtiFacial Expression

    Lectures

    Video Installations

    Arthur & the Solenoids

Theory

    Publications  
        
    Past Courses

    Course "Algorithmic Art and Artificial Intelligence"

Current and Upcoming Events

On February 27, 2004, the MIT Press Art & Technology Journal Leonardo announced that the paper "Electric Body Manipulation as Performance Art: A Historical Perspective" by Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha has won the 2003 "Leonardo Award for Excellence".

The "Leonardo Award for Excellence" honours the Leonardo article which stands out in terms of originality, rigor of thought, clarity of expression and effective presentation. Jury: Lynn Hershman (chair), Hisham Bizri, Char Davies, Marcos Novak, and Bill Seaman. Previous recipients of this prize include Rudolf Arnheim, Otto Piene, Charles Ames, Frieda Stahl, Donna Cox, Alvin Curran, Karen O'Rourke and Eduardo Kac. "Electric body manipulation as performance art" appeared in: Nicolas Collins (ed.): Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 17-28. (Special issue on Pleasure.)

September 25, 2004, 4 - 7 p.m. Conference Sonic Acts, Paradiso, Amsterdam. With lectures by Driessens & Verstappen, Elsenaar & Scha, Casey Reas, Rutger Wolfson and others.

October 9 – November 5, 2004. Exhibition "News from home" at White Box's The Annex (601 West 26th Street, 14th floor, New York NY 10001). Curator: Moniek Voulon. Work by Elsenaar & Scha, Leon Golub, Kim Gordon, Paul Groot, Robert Longo, Babeth van Loo, Miltos Manetas, Yoko Ono and many others. Opening: Saturday, October 9 - 2004, 6-8 p.m. Opening performance: Mai Ueda.

October 25-28, 2004. Sixth International conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry. University of Amsterdam, Science Park Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Keynote speakers include Pauline Hogeweg, Jim Crutchfield and Tommaso Toffoli.

29 oktober 2004. Nationaal Congres Beelddenken, KUN Nijmegen. Plenaire lezingen door Roel de Groot, Peter Werkhoven en Remko Scha.

Fall 2004. The Machines: "Machine Guitars Anthology". CD Box to be released by Table of the Elements. Liner notes by Byron Coley. [Earlier releases by Table of the Elements include music by Tony Conrad, La Monte Young, John Cale, Rhys Chatham, and Arnold Dreyblatt.]

April-May 2005. Artware 3, ICPNA, Lima, Peru. Digital Art Exhibition, including work by Manfred Mohr, Herbert Franke, Harold Cohen, Huge Harry, Roman Verostko and many others. Curator: Umberto Roncoroni.

September 28 - October 2, 2005. First international art-history conference on technological art & new media. Banff Centre, Canada. Coordinated by Oliver Grau (Humboldt University).

Human Support Staff

Mark van den Berg (Rhythm Software), Jos de Bruin (Commercial Applications), Rutger Bückmann (House Algorithms), Arthur Elsenaar (InterFace), Wouter Hager (Grammar Visualization), Boele Klopman (PC Software), Remko Scha (Secretary), Jochem van der Spek (Automatic Expressionism), Hans Stibbe (Radio 100), Eric Vreedenburgh (Architecture), Victor Wentink (Automatic Music).