NY Art Critic Jerry Saltz thinks my Painting Robots have Good Taste

New York Magazine's Art Critic Jerry Saltz recently reviewed several AI generated pieces of art including my own. The piece begins at 19:45 in the above HBO Vice video. I was prepared for the worst, but pleased when he looked at this Portrait of Elle Reeve and commented that my robots have "good taste” and that “It doesn’t look like a computer made it.” But he then paused and concluded "That doesn't make it any good."  But I loved the review since a couple of years ago the art world did not even consider what I was doing to be art. At least now it is considered bad art. That's progress!

All the AI generated art got roasted, but at least I got what I considered to be the best review of all my colleagues which included some of the world's finest AI generated artwork.

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Refined Paint Head (Model R)

Based on the initial prototype, which we were actually very pleased with, we went back to the white board and tackled some of its shortcomings.  The primary issue we had to address was how was a robot arm or xy-table going to hold on to this thing.

That was when Hunter came up with the idea of supporting the entire paint head from the center with 2" bolts.  So we redesigned the tray to hold 9 2" 6-32 bolts.  Above these bolts an aluminum disk would serve as the mounting surface.  With this configuration any module that consisted of a 40 degree arc with a 3.5" radius, could just snap into place.

As always, here is the final Google Sketch file so anyone that wants to can design this along with us.

3D PRINTER ARRIVES - OPENING, UNPACKING, AND ASSEMBLING

Our 3D Printer, a Wanhao Duplicator I3 Plus, finally arrived from China. Took about 2 weeks to get here. I wanted to open it as soon as we got it, but instead we decided to make an unboxing video. The results were kinda ridiculous. Typical unboxing videos are done by experts, but we quickly realized we didn't know what we were doing and stumbled through ours. But it was a fun way to learn about assembling and putting together a 3D Printer, so we hope you enjoy it.