Thanks for writing this Marie. I have to admit I have a hard time with this one, like some of the other critics did in your piece.
To me, Ai-da has no soul, so there is nothing real to move me at the heart of these creations. (However, I can at the same time think some of the results are amazing, and I might be curious about them if I saw them hanging on a wall and didnt know how they were created).
I think for me, the false note is ascribing this art to a robot who interacts with us and is assigned a kind of artistic personhood as opposed to a computer produced art product that we are aware of as such, but isnt trying to justify its existence and pretending to be humanoid.
Also watching the video I think Ai-da is getting farther away from the uncanny valley type of robot experience which makes it, for me even more unsettling. I'm not ready for this...let alone ready for it in contemporary art lol.
This would be a good topic to discuss at M and M. Sorry I missed last week with no notice. Things at work are a bit insane.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this very unsettling topic, Michele. The whole thing, for me, is rich with questions about creativity and what really makes art, art as well as how AI will impact artists and art making going into the future. For that reason, it will be the topic of our next M & M Conversation. I have more interesting material to post next week. Stay tuned!
Thanks for writing this Marie. I have to admit I have a hard time with this one, like some of the other critics did in your piece.
To me, Ai-da has no soul, so there is nothing real to move me at the heart of these creations. (However, I can at the same time think some of the results are amazing, and I might be curious about them if I saw them hanging on a wall and didnt know how they were created).
I think for me, the false note is ascribing this art to a robot who interacts with us and is assigned a kind of artistic personhood as opposed to a computer produced art product that we are aware of as such, but isnt trying to justify its existence and pretending to be humanoid.
Also watching the video I think Ai-da is getting farther away from the uncanny valley type of robot experience which makes it, for me even more unsettling. I'm not ready for this...let alone ready for it in contemporary art lol.
This would be a good topic to discuss at M and M. Sorry I missed last week with no notice. Things at work are a bit insane.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this very unsettling topic, Michele. The whole thing, for me, is rich with questions about creativity and what really makes art, art as well as how AI will impact artists and art making going into the future. For that reason, it will be the topic of our next M & M Conversation. I have more interesting material to post next week. Stay tuned!