AI art : machine visions and warped dreams / Joanna Zylinska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zylinska, Joanna, author.

Series:

Media : art : write : now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and computers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

AI Art

Place of Publication:

London : Open Humanities Press, [2020]

Summary:

Can computers be creative? Is algorithmic art just a form of Candy Crush? Cutting through the smoke and mirrors surrounding computation, robotics and artificial intelligence,Joanna Zylinska argues that, to understand the promise of AI for the creative fields, we must not confine ourselves solely to the realm of aesthetics. Instead, we need to address the role and position of the human in the current technical setup - including the associated issues of labour, robotisation and, last but not least, extinction. Offering a critique of the socio-political underpinnings of AI, AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams raises poignant questions about the conditions of art making and creativity today. The book critically examines artworks that use AI, be it in the form of visual style transfer, algorithmic experiment or critical commentary. It also engages with their predecessors, including robotic art and net art. AI Art includes a project from Zylinska's own art practice titled 'View from the Window', which explores human and nonhuman forms of intelligence, perception and action. The book closes with speculation on future art - and on art's future.

Contents:

AI (and) art : an introduction

A so-called intelligence

The ethics of AI, or How to tell better stories about technology

Why now? : AI as the Anthropocene imperative

'Can computers be creative?' : a misguided question

Artists, robots, and 'fun'

The work of art in the age of machinic creation

Generative AI art as Candy Crush

Seeing like a machine, telling like a human

Undigital photography

An Uber for art?

From net art and post-Internet art to artificially intelligent art

and beyond

AI as another intelligence

Future art, art's future : a conclusion

(Art) gallery of links.

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