Robot Art That Creates Itself
Can a robot be an artist? What about a wind-up toy, or a vacuum cleaner? When you think about art, you might not think about computers, robots and machines. But many artists use technology in all sorts of crazy ways to create amazing works of robot art!
Anything from a computer program to a hand mixer can create art. Of course, a human artist still needs to be involved somewhere in the process. A vacuum or a wind-up toy isn’t going to wake up one morning and decide to make a painting!
But once the wind-up toy is moving, the artist no longer has control over the patterns it creates. That same is true of many computer programs made to create digital art. The wind-up toy and the program both operate on their own. This kind of art is called generative art.
Artist Echo Yang created paintings with simple mechanical devices, including a wind-up toy, an alarm clock, a vacuum cleaner, and a hand mixer, for an exhibit title Autonomous Machines.
Autonomous Machines – TinToy (Chicken) from echo yang on Vimeo.
You can do the same thing yourself, with a wind-up toy, some paint, and a little bit of tinkering.
Math + Randomness = Surprising Art
In computer-generated algorithmic art, the design of the piece is created by following a set of rules. An algorithm is just a set of rules 
With just a die, a pencil or pen, and graph paper, you can make your own random art. This proves that rules + randomness = something totally unique!
This is such a fun project for kids. It’s a perfect balance of Art + Science
My daughter and I had lot of fun together and organized a challenge where Spin Art competed with Human Art — We captured our memories here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xwMwhNgzdw