“Cohen developed AARON with intention. The machine and the painter grew together—inefficiently, by tech’s standards, but fruitfully, by art’s.”
– Critic
Travis Diehl, celebrating the outputs of
Harold Cohen’s pioneering drawing robots currently
on view at The Whitney. “Compared to the visual horrors emerging from the psychedelic meatgrinder of text-to-image AI’s, AARON’s docile pictures of people feel friendly and controlled,” Diehl writes. “The Whitney show speaks to a hopeful period of tech development, when the internet’s pioneers envisioned an anarchic realm of the mind, not the boundless attention-gathering machine it became.”
