Faceless Portraits Transcending Time

Faceless Portraits Transcending Time is an exhibition of prints recently shown at the HG Contemporary gallery in Chelsea, the epicenter of New York’s contemporary-art world. All of them were created by a computer. The catalog calls the show a collaboration between an artificial intelligence named AICAN and its creator, Dr. Ahmed Elgammal, a move meant to spotlight, and anthropomorphize, the machine-learning algorithm that did most of the work. According to HG Contemporary, it’s the first solo gallery exhibit devoted to an AI artist.