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    Jaume Plensa  - Artist profile Jaume Plensa Born: August 23, 1955 (age 68) in Barcelona, Spain Jaume Plensa Nationality: Spanish (Catalan) Artistic Style: Contemporary sculpture, public art installations Known for: Monumental figurative sculptures often incorporating letters, numbers, and symbols; works that evoke contemplation, introspection, and a sense of shared humanity. Notable Works: Crown Fountain (Chicago) Dream (St. Helens, UK) Dream (St. Helens, UK) en.wikipedia.org Echo (New York City) Echo (New York City) Water's Soul (Jersey City, NJ) Water's Soul (Jersey City, NJ) Early Life and Education Studied art at the Llotja School of Art and Design and the Sant Jordi School of Fine Art in Barcelona. Left formal studies to pursue his artistic vision independently. Artistic Themes and Style Human Form: Plensa's sculptures often depict human figures, particularly heads and faces, rendered in a variety of materials like steel, glass, an...

  Artist: Helga Stentzel (Siberia) Personal website of author:  https://www.helgastentzel.com/ https://www.facebook.com/helgastentzel (wide selection of new artworks and works in progress) Laundry art Creative Artist Turns Ordinary Clothes Into Abstracted Animal Artworks  Helga Stentzel: An Artist of Domestic Surrealism Helga Stentzel is a Russian-British visual artist known for her series of surrealist art that transforms ordinary household objects into fantastical characters and scenes. With a rich imagination and an eye for detail, Stentzel creates entire worlds using clothes, kitchen utensils, books, bread, and many more. A Diverse Creative Career Stentzel works in a wide range of mediums, including photography, illustration, video, and stop-motion animation. After studying graphic design and advertising, she began her career as an art director in the advertising industry. However, her passion for art and the desire to express her creativity in a more personal ...

We, robot: the computer co-authoring a story with a human writer shutterstock. Shutterstock Leah Henrickson , Loughborough University In Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, a collection of nine short stories about robotics, Asimov explores the possibilities of human-computer interaction. How can humans and computers co-exist? How can they work together to make a better world? A research group from the Meertens Instituut in Amsterdam and the Antwerp Centre for Digital Humanities and Literary Criticism recently introduced a new digital creative writing system. Using a graphical interface, an author drafts a text sentence by sentence. Then, the system proposes its own sentences to continue the story. The human and the computer work together to create what the system’s developers call “synthetic literature”. The paper detailing this project describes the text generation system as an attempt to: Create a stimulating envir...