Artificial Intelligence – Intelligent Art?
The Roughness of Neural Networks. Jimi Hendrix, Holly Herndon, GPT-3, Timbre Transfer and the Promising Failure Aesthetics of Musical AIs
The Book on „Artificial Intelligence – Intelligent Art? Human-Machine Interaction and Creative Practice“ edited by Eckart Voigts, Robin Markus Auer, Dietmar Elflein, Sebastian Kunas, Jan Röhnert and Christoph Seelinger has just been published.
As algorithmic data processing increasingly pervades everyday life, it is also making its way into the worlds of art, literature and music. In doing so, it shifts notions of creativity and evokes non-anthropocentric perspectives on artistic practice. This volume brings together contributions from the fields of cultural studies, literary studies, musicology and sound studies as well as media studies, sociology of technology, and beyond, presenting a truly interdisciplinary, state-of-the-art picture of the transformation of creative practice brought about by various forms of AI.
I contributed a chapter withe the title: The Roughness of Neural Networks. Jimi Hendrix, Holly Herndon, GPT-3, Timbre Transfer and the Promising Failure Aesthetics of Musical AIs. The text was written in 2022, when several AI developments have been kind of new and have just been starting to get more and more influential, than one might have imagined before. However, the thoughts and arguments of my chapter are relevant today as well – maybe even more. I have done some artistic research regarding artist and tools that exhibit a kind of roughness or failure aesthetic. So feel free ton listen and read and share your opinion about this if you like. The book is available under open access.
