Building on the media-philosophical approach to authorship developed in the previous chapter, this chapter explores the role of AI systems in the production of visual art and how their unpredictability shapes the consumption and critique of images. The discussion in this chapter focuses on a particular artistic trend that emerged in the 2010s and that involved the use of AI systems (primarily generative adversarial networks) to generative visual art. This trend was characterised by experimentation in aesthetics, artistic techniques and authorial agency but was also often marked by an uncritical fascination with AI-generated images and little regard for ethical considerations around consent and appropriation. To illustrate and explore this trend, the chapter provides a close analysis of the art installation Memories of Passersby I (Klingemann 2018). Building on the media philosophy of Vilém Flusser, the analysis conceptualises AI-generated images as technical images and the cultural production of AI art as a seemingly endless artistic gesture. The chapter argues that the infinite generative outputs of AI systems obscure human authorship and transform aesthetic experience from a contemplative appreciation to a continual consumption.

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The Infinite Portrait

  • Andrew McIntyre

摘要

Building on the media-philosophical approach to authorship developed in the previous chapter, this chapter explores the role of AI systems in the production of visual art and how their unpredictability shapes the consumption and critique of images. The discussion in this chapter focuses on a particular artistic trend that emerged in the 2010s and that involved the use of AI systems (primarily generative adversarial networks) to generative visual art. This trend was characterised by experimentation in aesthetics, artistic techniques and authorial agency but was also often marked by an uncritical fascination with AI-generated images and little regard for ethical considerations around consent and appropriation. To illustrate and explore this trend, the chapter provides a close analysis of the art installation Memories of Passersby I (Klingemann 2018). Building on the media philosophy of Vilém Flusser, the analysis conceptualises AI-generated images as technical images and the cultural production of AI art as a seemingly endless artistic gesture. The chapter argues that the infinite generative outputs of AI systems obscure human authorship and transform aesthetic experience from a contemplative appreciation to a continual consumption.