Cognitive Processes in Artistic Creation: Toward the Realization of a Creative Machine

The author argues that Artificial Intelligence concepts will not lead to the development of a truly creative machine if limited merely to simulating the peripheral processes of the artist. After identifying five different creative processes discovered through collecting and evaluating data on the practices of 31 plastic artists, the author proposes a new paradigm for a creative machine, which involves the matching of schemata to establish new links between separate universes.