Lionel Moura (Lisbon, 1948) is one of the most disruptive names in the art scene, not only in Portugal, but all over the world. He started out working in photography, but he quickly integrated art and science into his work and his thinking about art. Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are such creative partners that he coined a term, ““Art Squadron” which adapts to what it does, which is work that relies on the behaviors of insect colonies or swarms, especially ants. In 2006, RAP, a Robot Painter And it is located in the Humanity Room at the Museum of Natural History in New York. And you robot The most famous among a group of other creatively autonomous devices capable of reacting to musical stimuli, detecting colors, or generating words or text. With exhibitions in Paris, the Grand Palais, Beijing, Sao Paulo, or Istanbul, he will participate in the opening of a new museum entirely dedicated to digital art in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This, while thinking and writing about how art and artificial intelligence will coexist in the future and what the role of the human artist will be. For you Robots Artists, the way he views art and its connection to science makes Lionel Moura a special case in a field he says he has abandoned: Portuguese visual arts. He says the artist must abandon the center.
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