Title

A Journey Along The Borderland: A Critical Approach To Artificial Intelligence-Based Art And Literary Practices

Abstract

Digital media open up opportunities for new integrations of art and science. However, the close contact between the multiple cultures in either tradition also unveils fundamental value differences that impose considerable difficulties in performing interdisciplinary work. In this chapter, we identify a new form of this cultural divide in the context of computer art and digital media practices. Next, we identify a growing number of practices that engage the capacity of the computer to abstractly represent data and to process it algorithmically in order to serve expressive, critical, and generalizable purposes. In particular, we explore artificial intelligence-based art and literary practices that actively negotiate the hidden assumptions and push the disciplinary boundaries of both art and science. Finally, we present our AI-based interactive narrative work Memory, Reverie Machine, which engages literature, cognitive science, and AI. It illustrates our perspective and strategy of combining art and science practices synergistically, as part of a growing community for which the exploring of the borderland between art and science can transform not only particular technologies or how they are perceived, but also end goals and values.

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Publication Title

Arts: A Science Matter

Number of Pages

222-246

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

85072843175 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85072843175

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