See above. These images were accepted to a juried art competition and posted in a museum:

http://www.evolvingai.org/share/20150213_184537.jpg

The awards only acknowledge, not express, what it has achieved.

The algorithm would be useful if it could generate/identify images that feel as emotionally transformative as good art.

I quite like this thought, though art is about combining known patterns in a novel way. Here they create unknown patters to evoke associations with known but unrelated patterns. It's kind of reverse-art.

I think art is about the relationship of the viewer to the work, not about the explanation for the work's creation. The viewer is the place where it all goes down.