How do artistic experiments with artificial intelligence problematize human-centered notions of creative agency, authorship, and ownership? This book is firmly positioned against the anthropomorphic spectacle of “creative AI” and proposes instead the concept of the posthumanist agential assemblage.

Tactical Entanglements

AI Art, Creative Agency, and the Limits of Intellectual Property

How do artistic experiments with artificial intelligence problematize human-centered notions of creative agency, authorship, and ownership? Offering a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary digital art practices, philosophical and technical considerations of AI, posthumanist thought, and emerging issues of intellectual property and the commons, this book is firmly positioned against the anthropomorphic spectacle of “creative AI.” It proposes instead the concept of the posthumanist agential assemblage, and invites readers to consider what new types of creative practice, what reconfigurations of the author function, and what critical interventions become possible when AI art provokes tactical entanglements between aesthetics, law, and capital.

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Publishing Year
2021
Language
English
Pages
186
Print Edition Price
€ 19.90 RRP
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CC BY-SA 4.0
ISBNs
978-3-95796-183-9 (Print)
978-3-95796-184-6 (PDF)
DOI
10.14619/1839
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The Author

Martin Zeilinger (Senior Lecturer in Computational Art and Technology, Abertay University) is an Austrian researcher and curator currently based in Dundee, Scotland. His work focuses on critical artistic approaches to emerging blockchain and AI technologies, intellectual property issues in contemporary art, and aspects of experimental videogame culture. He has co-curated Vector Festival (Toronto) since 2014, and organized the 2019 MoneyLab symposium (London). His research is available in books such as Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain and the MoneyLab Reader 2, and in journals including Philosophy & Technology, Culture Machine, and Media Theory.

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