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Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce its latest title.
Fittingly for
our times, it discusses a world behind windows and screens in
which we all
become part of a vapour-like global labour force, no matter how
creative our
occupations or ambitions are.<br>
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<span style="text-transform:uppercase">AI Art: Machine Visions
and Warped
Dreams</span> by Joanna Zylinska <br>
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Like all Open Humanities Press books, <i>AI Art</i> is freely
available to
download: <br>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">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, 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><span style="font-family:Arial">AI Art: Machine Visions and
Warped Dreams</span></em>
raises poignant questions about the conditions of art making and
creativity
today.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">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><span style="font-family:Arial">AI Art</span></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.</span></p>
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Joanna Zylinska is a writer, lecturer, artist, curator, and –
according to the
ImageNet Roulette’s algorithm – a ‘mediatrix’. She is currently
Professor of
New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of
London. The author of
a number of books on art, philosophy and technology – including
<em><span style="font-family:Arial">The End of Man: A Feminist
Counterapocalypse</span></em>
(University of Minnesota Press, 2018), <em><span
style="font-family:Arial">Nonhuman
Photography</span></em> (MIT Press, 2017) and <em><span
style="font-family:
Arial">Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene</span></em> (Open
Humanities Press,
2014) – she is also involved in more experimental and
collaborative publishing
projects, such as <em><span style="font-family:Arial">Photomediations</span></em>
(2016). Her own art practice engages with different kinds of
image-based media.
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All the best, <br>
Sigi Jöttkandt, David Ottina, Gary Hall (for OHP Press)</span></p>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Latest:
‘We’re Not Going Back To Arguing From Evidence Anytime Soon, Deal With It: Postdigital Politics in a Time of Pandemics V’: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2020/5/31/were-not-going-back-to-arguing-from-evidence-anytime-soon-de.html">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2020/5/31/were-not-going-back-to-arguing-from-evidence-anytime-soon-de.html</a>
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