The article proposes a philosophical reflection on the phenomenon of algorithmic aesthetics as a new stage in the evolution of visual culture in the era of artificial intelligence. It analyses how generative neural networks and machine learning algorithms are changing the ways of image production and the anthropology of perception itself. The authors demonstrate how the contemporary visual environment is increasingly shaped not by the subject's intentional act, but by machine processes of statistical redistribution of patterns. This leads to the transformation of aesthetic experience: from contemplation and interpretation towards interaction with the network and reactive consumption of visual stimuli. The work substantiates the concept of algorithmic aesthetics as a paradigm in which the traditional relationship between image, authorship and meaning disappears. It comprehends the radical redistribution of the ‘sensual’ in conditions when aesthetic validity is formed not in the space of human communication, but in the infrastructure of algorithmic distribution. The problem of phenomenology of virtual perception in an environment is such that, where images do not have a stable ontology, the subject's gaze ceases to be an act of creating meaning and turns into a function of algorithmically directed attention. The concept of “pixel chaos” in this article is employed not in a technical sense, but rather in a philosophical and cultural context. It refers to a collection of visual objects that lack signifying or cognitive functions, are excluded from cultural narratives, and resist interpretation. This encompasses not only low-quality images but also visual patterns that are mindlessly repeated across the web, losing their semantics due to hyperproduction. In conditions of information overload, visual debris becomes a symptom of the crisis of the visible culture, where “images cease to signify and begin merely to circulate.” Special attention is given to the issues of the loss of authorial subjectivity, aesthetic homogenization, and visual entropy as symptoms of profound cultural transformation. The authors substantiate the need for humanitarian expertise and a new philosophy of digital visuality, which allows diagnosing the threats of aesthetic degeneration and can offer the basis for the formation of principles of digital hygiene and ecology of perception. The conclusion raises the question of the possibility of preserving the space of human creativity and reflective perspective in the conditions of algorithmic simulation of the real world.

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Pixel Chaos: Visual Entropy as a New Form of Digital Pollution

  • Anastasia Lisenkova,
  • Evgenia Listvina,
  • Tatiana Nam

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The article proposes a philosophical reflection on the phenomenon of algorithmic aesthetics as a new stage in the evolution of visual culture in the era of artificial intelligence. It analyses how generative neural networks and machine learning algorithms are changing the ways of image production and the anthropology of perception itself. The authors demonstrate how the contemporary visual environment is increasingly shaped not by the subject's intentional act, but by machine processes of statistical redistribution of patterns. This leads to the transformation of aesthetic experience: from contemplation and interpretation towards interaction with the network and reactive consumption of visual stimuli. The work substantiates the concept of algorithmic aesthetics as a paradigm in which the traditional relationship between image, authorship and meaning disappears. It comprehends the radical redistribution of the ‘sensual’ in conditions when aesthetic validity is formed not in the space of human communication, but in the infrastructure of algorithmic distribution. The problem of phenomenology of virtual perception in an environment is such that, where images do not have a stable ontology, the subject's gaze ceases to be an act of creating meaning and turns into a function of algorithmically directed attention. The concept of “pixel chaos” in this article is employed not in a technical sense, but rather in a philosophical and cultural context. It refers to a collection of visual objects that lack signifying or cognitive functions, are excluded from cultural narratives, and resist interpretation. This encompasses not only low-quality images but also visual patterns that are mindlessly repeated across the web, losing their semantics due to hyperproduction. In conditions of information overload, visual debris becomes a symptom of the crisis of the visible culture, where “images cease to signify and begin merely to circulate.” Special attention is given to the issues of the loss of authorial subjectivity, aesthetic homogenization, and visual entropy as symptoms of profound cultural transformation. The authors substantiate the need for humanitarian expertise and a new philosophy of digital visuality, which allows diagnosing the threats of aesthetic degeneration and can offer the basis for the formation of principles of digital hygiene and ecology of perception. The conclusion raises the question of the possibility of preserving the space of human creativity and reflective perspective in the conditions of algorithmic simulation of the real world.