• Title: AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams
• Author(s) Joanna Zylinska
• Publisher: Springer; 2020 edition; eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
• Paperback: 129 pages
• eBook: PDF (178 pages)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1785420852
• ISBN-13: 978-1785420856
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Book Description

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.

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.

• Joanna Zylinska is a writer, lecturer, artist, curator, and – according to the ImageNet Roulette's algorithm – a ‘mediatrix’. She is currently Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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