Title: Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media ---- Tags: Book, 2024, selected ---- Top_image: artificial-aesthetics-top-2.jpg ---- Side_images: ---- Download_link: manovich_and_arielli.artificial_aesthetics.all_chapters_final.pdf ---- External_link: ---- Internal_link: ---- Text: ### Download final Book (single PDF) Each chapter was released online after completion during 2021-2024 on manovich.net and (link: http://gc-cuny.academia.edu/LevManovich text: academia.edu popup: yes). This PDF combines final edited versions of all chapters (added 01/15/2025) (link: manovich_and_arielli.artificial_aesthetics.all_chapters_final.pdf text: Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media popup: yes) (PDF) ### To cite this book: APA (7th ed.): Manovich, L., & Arielli, E. (2024). Artificial aesthetics. https://manovich.net/index.php/projects/artificial-aesthetics Chicago (17th ed.): Manovich, Lev, and Emanuele Arielli. "Artificial Aesthetics." 2024. https://manovich.net/index.php/projects/artificial-aesthetics. ### Translations Translations into Chinese, Spanish, and Italian are in progress. *** ### About the Book Our book explores how generative AI is transforming our understanding of aesthetics, creativity, design, and art appreciation. It uses approaches from six fields. Emanuele brings perspectives from aesthetics, philosophy of art, and psychology of art. Lev contributes perspectives from media theory, digital culture studies, and computer science, as well as his four decades of experience as an artist creating digital media, including recent work with generative AI. This is the first time all these different perspectives have been combined to analyze cultural AI. We started working on the book in the summer of 2019, exchanging many messages, commenting on each other's ideas, and sharing section drafts. While each chapter is written by a single author, it incorporates our ongoing discussions. Given the rapid evolution of generative AI and its wide-reaching impact on art and culture, we made the decision to release each chapter online as soon as it was finished. The first chapter was released in December 2021, and the last one in September 2024. After all chapters were completed, we did some further editing and released the final version as a single PDF. -- Lev Manovich and Emanuele Arielli, November 2021 – October 2024. *** ### Separate Book Chapters (earlier versions) Arielli, 12/15/2021. ### 1. (link: artificial_aesthetics.chapter_1.pdf text: Even an AI Could Do That popup: yes) *** Manovich, 01/18/2022. ### 2. (link: artificial_aesthetics.chapter_2.pdf text: Who is an Artist in AI Era? popup: yes) *** Arielli, 03/28/2022. ### 3. (link: artificial_aesthetics.chapter_3.pdf text: Chapter 3 - Techno-animism and the Pygmalion Effect. popup: yes) *** Manovich, 05/18/2022. ### 4. (link: artificial_aesthetics.chapter_4.pdf text: Chapter 4 - AI and Myths of Creativity. popup: yes) *** Manovich, 04/20/2023. ### 5. (link: lev-manovich-ai-aesthetics-chapter-5.pdf text: Chapter 5 - Seven Arguments about AI Images and Generative Media popup: yes) *** Arielli, 01/15/2024. ### 6. (link: ai_aesthetics_book.chapter_6.pdf text: Chapter 6 - Human Perception and The Artificial Gaze popup: yes) *** Manovich, 03/27/2024. ### 7. (link: manovich-artificial-aesthetics-ch7.pdf text: Chapter 7 - Separate and Reassemble: Generative AI and Media History popup: yes) *** Arielli. 09/24/2024. ### 8. (link: arielli-artificial-aesthetics.chapter-8.pdf text: Chapter 8 - From Tools to Authors popup: yes) *** Arielli, 09/27/2024. ### 9. (link: arielli-artificial-aesthetics.chapter_9.pdf text: Chapter 9 - Made by and for Humans? The Issue of Aesthetic Alignment popup: yes)