We Have Always Been Artificially Intelligent
Can computers be creative? Picking up some threads from her recent book, AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams, Joanna Zylinska will argue that, to understand the promise of Artificial Intelligence for the creative fields, we need to address the role and position of the human in the current technical setup.
Can computers be creative? Picking up some threads from her recent book, AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams, Joanna Zylinska will argue that, to understand the promise of Artificial Intelligence for the creative fields, we need to address the role and position of the human in the current technical setup. Zylinska will offer a provocation which will see humans as having always been artificially intelligent, but she will also present a critique of the current socio-political dimensions of AI. This will lead her to raise a number of questions about the conditions of art making and creativity today. She will also show some work from her own art practice.
Joanna Zylinska
Joanna Zylinska is a writer, lecturer, artist, curator, and – according to the ImageNet Roulette’s algorithm – a ‘mediatrix’. She works as Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. The author of a number of books – including AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams (Open Humanities Press, 2020), The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and Nonhuman Photography (MIT Press, 2017) – she is also involved in experimental and collaborative publishing projects. Her art practice involves playing with different kinds of image-based media.