AI and Art
Knowledge and Technology
The Arts
How AI influences knowledge production in the Arts. With guest teacher Nevdon Jamgochian.
Notes
Big question: Is AI a tool for creating art, or can AI be considered an artist?
- Portrait of Edmond de Belamy (2018) — generated by a GAN, sold at Christie’s for $432,500. Who is the artist?
- Cory Doctorow on “uncanniness”: AI produces effects without agency — can something without agency produce genuine knowledge?
- If all listeners had personalized AI-generated music, what would be lost?
Key TOK tensions here: - — who owns AI-generated art? - — does interpretation require a human interpreter? - — can a machine produce art that is aesthetically valuable?