Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media
Book Manuscript Details
Authors: Lev Manovich and Emanuele Arielli.
The drafts of book chapters are released as they are completed on manovich.net and academia.edu.
Description
Our book examines how generative AI is changing our familiar concepts of aesthetics, creativity, design, and art appreciation. It uses approaches from six different fields: aesthetics, philosophy of art, and psychology of art (Emanuele), media theory, digital culture studies, and data science (Lev). This is the first time all of 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.
Lev Manovich and Emanuele Arielli, November 2021 – September 2024.
Book Chapters
1 Even an AI Could Do That
Emanuele Arielli. Published December 15, 2021.
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2 Who is an Artist in AI Era?
Lev Manovich. Published January 18, 2022.
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3 Chapter 3 - Techno-animism and the Pygmalion Effect.
Emanuele Arielli. Published March 28, 2022.
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4 Chapter 4 - AI and Myths of Creativity.
Lev Manovich. Published May 18, 2022.
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5 Chapter 5 - Seven Arguments about AI Images and Generative Media
Lev Manovich. Published April 20, 2023.
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6 Chapter 6 - Human Perception and The Artificial Gaze
Emanuele Arielli. Published January 15, 2024.
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7 Chapter 7 - Separate and Reassemble: Generative AI and Media History
Lev Manovich. Published March 27, 2024.