AI Art - (Media: Art: Write: Now) by Joanna Zylinska (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In AI Art, Joanna Zylinska cuts through the smoke and mirrors surrounding the current narratives of computation, robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Offering a critique of the political underpinnings of AI and its dominant aesthetics, this book raises broader questions about the conditions of art making, creativity and labour today.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Can computers be creative? Is algorithmic art just a form of Candy Crush? Cutting through the smoke and mirrors surrounding computation, robotics and artificial intelligence, <em> </em>Joanna Zylinska argues that, to understand the promise of AI for the creative fields, we must not confine ourselves solely to the realm of aesthetics. Instead, we need to address the role and position of the human in the current technical setup - including the associated issues of labour, robotisation and, last but not least, extinction. Offering a critique of the socio-political underpinnings of AI, <em>AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams</em> raises poignant questions about the conditions of art making and creativity today.</p><p>The book critically examines artworks that use AI, be it in the form of visual style transfer, algorithmic experiment or critical commentary. It also engages with their predecessors, including robotic art and net art. <em>AI Art</em> includes a project from Zylinska's own art practice titled 'View from the Window', which explores human and nonhuman forms of intelligence, perception and action. The book closes with speculation on future art - and on art's future.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Joanna Zylinska's new book shows why the question about AI and art should start with a much richer understanding of art than in most of popular cultural discourses that wonder whether a machine might be creative. An investigation into the conceptual, discursive and technological features of art in a historical perspective also implies asking what sorts of expectations of authorship have been pre-installed into our assumptions in the first place. This lucid book gives wonderful answers, updated questions as well as methodological suggestions. Also the machine-learning humans need to be better trained through datasets of cultural theory and history!" - Professor Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton and FAMU, Prague</p><p>"Zylinska's newest book inscribes AI art into a vibrant media ecology, while deftly engaging pressing aesthetic and socio-political concerns. This provocative book asks us to question not only so-called machinic creativity but also, crucially, creativity in humans." - Professor Kate Mondloch, University of Oregon</p><p>"As 'Humanity' is universally (yet unevenly) wading through species level predicaments, while the future itself dries up, at the mercy of AI solutions across the board, Joanna Zylinska argues that only creativity will save us. But AI discourse - myopically masculinist, warped and failing, hydrophobic and reprehensibly insensitive to the ecological crisis - needs to be better. This is the message of <em>AI Art</em>. Raising broad questions about image making and labour, it asks how humans can be creative in light of the fact that art and creativity have always been 'artificially intelligent'. Critiquing disturbing expressions of 'neurototalitarian' existence in insipid and mindless generative AI art - in the service of PR, for 'fun' and bemusement - she argues for embracing the potential for true transformational creativity through machines, offering an ethico-political opening towards the unknown, and toward other forms of intelligence. Zylinska's brave intervention ultimately exemplifies precisely what we crave today: nuanced, intelligent and <em>creative</em> perspectives on these developments from within the humanities which may prompt designers to envisage AI systems aligned with the existential need to reorient ourselves in terrains of shared technological and ecological emergency, and to thereby look toward an open, inclusive and sustainable future as we become human with machines." - Amanda Lagerkvist, Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies, Uppsala University</p><p> </p><br>
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