Artificial Intelligence - Intelligent Art? : Human-Machine Interaction and Creative Practice / Eckart Voigts.

Cover -- Contents -- Artificial Intelligence - Intelligent Art? An Introduction -- Man‐Machines from Ancient Greece to ChatGPT -- AI Art, AI Literature - The Re‑Invention of Creativity? -- AI and Popular Music Studies -- AI Aesthetics and AI Ethics -- Bibliography -- AI, Automation, Creativity, Cognitive Labor -- Introduction -- Art, de‑automatization, automatism - at the beginning of the 20th century -- A constellation in the 1960s -- Some theoretical reflections: Why can artistic work not be automated? -- Style without museums -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Dumb Meaning: Machine Learning and Artificial Semantics -- Free‐floating and grounded systems -- Gradated meaning -- Text and image and world -- Promptological investigations -- Bibliography -- Artist‐Guided Neural Networks - Automated Creativity or Tools for Extending Minds? -- Introduction -- Historical overview of deep learning development -- Artist‐Guided Neural Networks -- Synthetic Image -- Synthetic Text -- Translation models -- Synthetic Form -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Embodied Voice and AI: a Techno‐Social System in Miniature -- Motivations -- Strand One: Augmentation of performative practice through an AI wearable design -- Methodological framework -- Embodied voice in post‐Grotowskian practice -- Team -- The AI‑based motion capture wearable device -- Input: Motion capture through sensors -- Output: Synthesised sound -- Augmentation of practice: In‑tensions -- Gesture to sound mapping -- An example of training the system: "push" action against the wall -- Step One: Marking a "push" action -- Step Two: Explore "push" action mapped to sound -- Task‐based improvisation with all actions -- Potential for augmentation -- Strand Two: Reflections on the studio‐based work and on perceptions of the AI -- Conclusions and Areas of Further Research -- Bibliography.

Sound of Contagion - An Artistic Research Project Exploring A.I. as a Creative Tool for Transmedial Storytelling -- Introduction -- About the project -- Dataset, Data &amp -- Processes -- Dataset -- Data -- Training the Models -- A.I. as a creative tool -- Worldbuilding -- Example -- Outcomes -- Nested Narratives -- Illustrations -- Musical Adaptation -- Lecture Performance -- A.I. for transmedia collaborations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Challenges and Opportunities for Computational Construction of Narratives -- Introduction -- Programs that Deliver Stories -- How to Request Stories -- Original Stories -- Building Stories -- Judging Story Originality -- Acceptable Stories -- Stories for a Specific Purpose -- Rethinking Basic Assumptions -- Constructing Narratives: Narrative Generation and Narrative Composition -- Processing Narratives: Narrative Interpretation -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- The Marcel Duchamp Case in, against, or after Artificial Creativity -- Marcel Duchamp, the proto‐post‐conceptual contemporary artist? -- 'Art' and 'creativity' as social categories - and their un‑artificial Others -- "Even an AI could do that!" -- Duchamp in, after and against artificial art -- The impossibilities of form -- The historical inevitability of Duchamp: by anyone (or anything) -- Art‐as‐idea vs. no idea about art -- Counter Critiques -- The case of Marcel Duchamp in the age of accidental reproduction and untimely monsters -- Bibliography -- Creativity and Function -- The Advent of Creative AI -- A Multitude of Questions -- Functional Definitions -- Coming Up with Criteria -- A Multitude of Answers -- A Cognitive Perspective -- Constructivist Approaches -- The Creativity Dispositif and Creativity as an Economic Resource -- Creativities? -- A Synthetic Definition of Creativity - Creativity On The Go.

Complexity and Complications -- Bibliography -- Contemplating Automaton Consciousness through Creativity in Rokuro Inui's Automatic Eve -- Bibliography -- Where Machine and Muse Meet - Towards a Creativity of AI Art -- Introductory remarks -- Cybernetics as creative impetus -- AI Art -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Material Films in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Some Remarks on Automated Creativity in Contemporary Experimental Film -- Introduction -- Ghosts of digital modernity -- Rhizomic labyrinths -- Bibliography -- Film‐ and Videography -- Dear GPT‑3: Collaborative Writing with Neural Networks -- Collaborative writing with neural networks -- Methods of generating literature: The connectionist paradigm -- Dear GPT‑3, what is an angel? Interrogation (of the self) -- Complete -- Division of labour in the Writers' Room: Conceptualisations with AI -- Choices, Choices, Choices -- Bibliography -- AFFIRMATIVE - REJECT. With and Against AI -- Role models -- With and Against in Human‐Machine Assemblages -- Extension through technology -- Working against technological development -- Acting with other perspectives -- Deciding against calculations -- Working against AI or engaging with machine otherness. -- From the perspective of the machine -- With and Against AI -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Filmography -- Artificial Intelligence in Songwriting and Composing - Perspectives and Challenges in Creative Practices -- Composing and Songwriting in Practice -- AI and Songwriting in Practice -- Working with AI and its impact on the creative practice -- Potentials and creative approaches -- Challenges and risks -- Legal aspects -- Ethical aspects -- Aesthetic aspects -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Discography -- On Human‐Machine Relationship and the Notion of an Artificial Intelligence in Musical Practice -- Bibliography -- Discography.

The Upcoming Change in Human Musical Thinking. What Does a Music Professional do in the Age of AI? -- Understanding the theory of music as a tool -- What does the user want from the tool? -- AI‑based tools in music: A possible timeline -- Bibliography -- The Roughness of Neural Networks. Jimi Hendrix, Holly Herndon, GPT‑3, Timbre Transfer and the Promising Failure Aesthetics of Musical AIs -- Introduction -- Creativity in Generative Neural Networks -- Musical AI doesn`t listen -- The Rasping of Neurons -- Further Experiments from Holly+ to Jimi Hendrix and Tone Transfer -- Conclusion: Human Learning through Machine Learning -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Digital Aesthetics: A Symbolism of the Body and a More‐than‐Human Mode of Enquiry -- Bibliography -- About the Authors.

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