Artificial Aesthetics. Chapter 1 (Emanuele Arielli): “Even an AI could do that” (original) (raw)

2021, Artificial Aesthetics: A Critical Guide to AI, Media and Design

"Artificial Aesthetics. A Critical Guide to AI, Media and Design" is a book by Lev Manovich and Emanuele Arielli. The book is released one chapter at a time on academia.edu, medium.com, and manovich.net. Each chapter will be added to academia.edu as a separate PDF in "Articles" section. Later all chapters will be combined into a single PDF and it will be added to "Books." Book Preface: Suppose you are a designer, an architect, a photographer, a video maker, a musician, a writer, an artist, or a professional or student in any other creative field. Or perhaps you are a digital creator making content in multiple media. You may be wondering how AI will affect your professional area in general and your work and career. This book does not aim to predict the future or tell you exactly what will happen. Instead, we want to offer you a set of intellectual tools to help you better navigate any changes that may come along. These tools come from several different fields: aesthetics, philosophy of art and psychology of art (Emanuele), and media theory, digital culture studies, and data science (Lev). As far as we know, our book is the first to bring together all these different perspectives in thinking about creative AI. We started the work on the book in summer 2019, exchanging numerous messages, commenting on each other ideas, and sharing drafts of sections. The final book is a result of this process. Although each chapter is written by one author, it reflects the discussions we had over 27 months.