Tactical Entanglements: AI Art, Creative Agency, and the Limits of Intellectual Property

Martin Zeilinger
meson press
2021-06-30

How do artistic experiments with artificial intelligence problematize human-centered notions of creative agency, authorship, and ownership? Offering a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary digital art practices, philosophical and technical considerations of AI, posthumanist thought, and emerging issues of intellectual property and the commons, this book is firmly positioned against the anthropomorphic spectacle of “creative AI.” It proposes instead the concept of the posthumanist agential assemblage, and invites readers to consider what new types of creative practice, what reconfigurations of the author function, and what critical interventions become possible when AI art provokes tactical entanglements between aesthetics, law, and capital.

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  • P87-96
  • Capital
  • Creative Agency
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • Ownership
  • Posthumanism
  • Electronic, holographic & video art
  • Media studies
  • Digital, video and new media arts
  • Media studies
  • Digital, video and new media arts
  • Internet and digital media: arts and performance
  • Media studies: internet, digital media and society
  • NX1-820
  • Aesthetics
  • Art
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Authorship

Tactical Entanglements: AI Art, Creative Agency, and the Limits of Intellectual Property

Martin Zeilinger

meson press

2021-06-30

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How do artistic experiments with artificial intelligence problematize human-centered notions of creative agency, authorship, and ownership? Offering a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary digital art practices, philosophical and technical considerations of AI, posthumanist thought, and emerging issues of intellectual property and the commons, this book is firmly positioned against the anthropomorphic spectacle of “creative AI.” It proposes instead the concept of the posthumanist agential assemblage, and invites readers to consider what new types of creative practice, what reconfigurations of the author function, and what critical interventions become possible when AI art provokes tactical entanglements between aesthetics, law, and capital.

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Topics

  • P87-96
  • Capital
  • Creative Agency
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • Ownership
  • Posthumanism
  • Electronic, holographic & video art
  • Media studies
  • Digital, video and new media arts
  • Media studies
  • Digital, video and new media arts
  • Internet and digital media: arts and performance
  • Media studies: internet, digital media and society
  • NX1-820
  • Aesthetics
  • Art
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Authorship