The Shakespeare AI Art Book

Paperback Edition
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Own this beautiful book and you’ll discover the exciting world of Artificial Intelligence as it creates art that reimagines Shakespeare’s plays.

The Shakespeare AI Art Book is a stunning collection of original digital paintings, drawings, and mixed media pieces made entirely by a computer during the nascent days artificial intelligence art.

You’ll find each of Shakespeare’s plays is transformed into AI-generated artwork via a machine learning algorithm. It’s an inspiring and challenging exploration of ever-devoloping techniques for creating art based on input-text prompting.

The book contains over 80 new artworks created by the early days of the system, as well as a foreword written by the curator, and an introduction outlining the AI art-creation processes employed. The artworks themselves use a variety of fascinating styles and media techniques to illustrate the themes of each of Shakespeare’s plays and more.

The Shakespeare AI Art Book is a thought-provoking experiment in nascent artificial intelligence, human creativity, and art. This vivid, colourful, and engaging book explores the early potential of artificial intelligence to both create, as well as inspire, new art.

This book is a great gift for anyone who loves art and Shakespeare.

Illustrated throughout with more than 100 images in colour