Artificial surface, visceral interior
technological, aesthetic and economic aspects of generative art
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35699/2965-6931.2023.47661Keywords:
generative art, art and artificial intelligence, cultural economy, economics of artificial intelligence, cost diseaseAbstract
The dissemination of art generated by artificial intelligence, or generative art, is changing the creative industries. This article discusses technological, aesthetic and economic issues of generative art. Although technology can make possible new forms of artistic expression, its status as art is not certain. Defenders see it as a non-anthropocentric artform, critics emphasize that art is made by humans. Cultural economics can understand economic aspects of generative art, such as the decision of adopting it in large scale to stave off the cost disease; it also shows that there is a chain of workers and artists that may not be given the due recognition in the production process of generative art. I call this trait of “viscerality”. The article concludes that generative art does not succeed in creating non-anthropocentric art because of the viscerally human factor in artificial intelligence.
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