The Divine Comedy

We wondered what could have happened if we had found a way to make a cold artificial intelligence communicate with the Italian Sommo Poeta (“the Supreme Poet”) Dante Alighieri. Intrigued and excited by the possibilities, we tried to make the AI less cold by giving it the ability to paint and transform words into digital art images. The result is a collection of 100 unique works of art painted by a trained AI reading the Divine Comedy. Each image represents each of the one hundred cantos that make up the italian world-famous poem written in the fourteenth century, divided into three canticles: Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise).