Evolutionary art

Evolutionary Algorithms have been frequently employed as a means for artistic creation and design, in which human artists guide the creative process, through aesthetic and conceptual evaluation, and computers are in charge of applying more repetitive genetic operations. The success of this interactive version of the evolutionary algorithm is well documented, although researchers are still struggling to find a way for properly encoding good aesthetic measures. But other possibilities exist for computer mediated artistic creation, such as applying an opposite approach: instead of allowing human beings to guide the artistic process, we could establish the main evolutionary algorithm steps as a path to be followed by human artists, such that every step is performed by his hands and brains, while the evolutionary algorithm is the framework that dictates how to progress.