AFFIRMATIVE – REJECT. With and Against AI

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Artificial Intelligence – Intelligent Art? An Introduction 9
4. AI, Automation, Creativity, Cognitive Labor 35
5. Dumb Meaning: Machine Learning and Artificial Semantics 45
6. Artist-Guided Neural Networks – Automated Creativity or Tools for Extending Minds? 59
7. Embodied Voice and AI: a Techno-Social System in Miniature 79
8. Sound of Contagion – An Artistic Research Project Exploring A.I. as a Creative Tool for Transmedial Storytelling 97
9. Challenges and Opportunities for Computational Construction of Narratives 111
10. The Marcel Duchamp Case in, against, or after Artificial Creativity 125
11. Creativity and Function 139
12. Contemplating Automaton Consciousness through Creativity in Rokuro Inui’s Automatic Eve 151
13. Where Machine and Muse Meet – Towards a Creativity of AI Art 163
14. Material Films in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Some Remarks on Automated Creativity in Contemporary Experimental Film 177
15. Dear GPT-3: Collaborative Writing with Neural Networks 189
16. AFFIRMATIVE – REJECT. With and Against AI 203
17. Artificial Intelligence in Songwriting and Composing – Perspectives and Challenges in Creative Practices 217
18. On Human-Machine Relationship and the Notion of an Artificial Intelligence in Musical Practice 233
19. The Upcoming Change in Human Musical Thinking. What Does a Music Professional do in the Age of AI? 245
20. The Roughness of Neural Networks. Jimi Hendrix, Holly Herndon, GPT-3, Timbre Transfer and the Promising Failure Aesthetics of Musical AIs 255
21. Digital Aesthetics: A Symbolism of the Body and a More-than-Human Mode of Enquiry 269
22. About the Authors 283