The Garden of Chances: an Integrated Approach to Abstract Painting and Reactive DAI

Painting and Reactive DAI Guillaume Hutzler---Bernard Gortais---Alexis Drogoul LAFORIA/IBP/CNRS - Université Paris VI 4, Place Jussieu, case 169 75252 Paris Cedex 05 " Simple extrapolations of interactive art can embellish the behavioral model to include inputs from the weather, time of day (...). Or, with more fantasy, we can imagine a future of the visual arts populated with (...) caustic canvases (...) that get to know their future owners, who in turn get to know and love them " N. Negroponte Abstract Following our development experience with an artistic application using multi-agent techniques ---The Garden of Chances--- we elaborate in this paper a comparative study of abstract painting and reactive Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). More specifically, we underline the interest of reactive DAI as a tool for artists, while showing how abstract art reformulates the recurrent problematics of emergence and interpretation, providing us with a new basis for approaching Artific..