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Arte senza artista
Esperimenti estetici con l’intelligenza artificiale generativa
Can Machines Make Art? The giant leaps of generative artificial intelligence confront us with a dilemma. If in the mid-twentieth century a brilliant scientist, Alan Turing, could imagine a machine capable of thinking like a human being, today ChatGPT and other programs do much more: they write texts, compose music, and create images that are now difficult to distinguish from the products of flesh-and-blood artists. Can systems like DALL-E, Midjourney, or Stable Diffusion truly replace humans in one of their most emblematic and elusive activities? Can art exist without an artist?
To answer these questions—and many other queries on a topic of great relevance—Luigi Bonfante guides us through the discovery of the machina artifex: its mechanisms, potential, contradictions, and the theories shaping its evolution and its forays into the artistic realm. Starting from a concept of art as a process that necessarily involves human beings, the author takes a close look at AI creativity, highlighting affinities and divergences between the human and the non-human, as well as the possible dialogue between these two dimensions. Particular attention is given to those who, like Pierre Huyghe, have embraced the challenges of this new medium to outline a new "posthuman" aesthetic.
Arte senza artista is a reflection spanning history, technology, and philosophy—an essay in which art, observed through the prism of artificial intelligence, still emerges in all its complex humanity. Getting to know the machine better thus becomes a way to understand our own expressiveness, and therefore ourselves.
To answer these questions—and many other queries on a topic of great relevance—Luigi Bonfante guides us through the discovery of the machina artifex: its mechanisms, potential, contradictions, and the theories shaping its evolution and its forays into the artistic realm. Starting from a concept of art as a process that necessarily involves human beings, the author takes a close look at AI creativity, highlighting affinities and divergences between the human and the non-human, as well as the possible dialogue between these two dimensions. Particular attention is given to those who, like Pierre Huyghe, have embraced the challenges of this new medium to outline a new "posthuman" aesthetic.
Arte senza artista is a reflection spanning history, technology, and philosophy—an essay in which art, observed through the prism of artificial intelligence, still emerges in all its complex humanity. Getting to know the machine better thus becomes a way to understand our own expressiveness, and therefore ourselves.
Textual index
Prologo – La scimmia con la maschera
1. Le macchine possono fare arte?
2. La macchina che disegna con la vecchia IA
3. L’algoritmo che dipinge e la nascita delle reti neurali
4. Dalla biblioteca di Babele alla comprensione cieca
5. La creatività tra regole e analogie
6. Sognare pattern o nuotare nelle analogie?
7. L’IA che gioca a guardie e ladri con la storia dell’arte
8. Le ceneri e il fuoco
9. Il Blob del MOMA e l’astrazione controfattuale
10. Un duello di metamorfosi creative
11. E se l’artista fosse una macchina dell’inconscio?
12. Caso ex machina
13. Dipingere con le parole?
14. Fare arte con l’IA
15. Fare arte contro l’IA
16. Un’arte al di là dell’uomo?
17. Quel residuo irriducibile
Epilogo – Uno sguardo imperfetto e unico
1. Le macchine possono fare arte?
2. La macchina che disegna con la vecchia IA
3. L’algoritmo che dipinge e la nascita delle reti neurali
4. Dalla biblioteca di Babele alla comprensione cieca
5. La creatività tra regole e analogie
6. Sognare pattern o nuotare nelle analogie?
7. L’IA che gioca a guardie e ladri con la storia dell’arte
8. Le ceneri e il fuoco
9. Il Blob del MOMA e l’astrazione controfattuale
10. Un duello di metamorfosi creative
11. E se l’artista fosse una macchina dell’inconscio?
12. Caso ex machina
13. Dipingere con le parole?
14. Fare arte con l’IA
15. Fare arte contro l’IA
16. Un’arte al di là dell’uomo?
17. Quel residuo irriducibile
Epilogo – Uno sguardo imperfetto e unico
Arte senza artista