This PhD project will explore AI as a site of encounter for the contemporary arts, and how artists are creatively experimenting with the new kinds of ethical and political expressions that AI systems make possible.
Innovations in contemporary digital technologies are challenging many traditional assumptions regarding the relationship between technical machines and the kinds of creative and imaginative capacities long assumed to be unique properties of human subjects. This is particularly the case in the realm of the arts, with some lamenting the ‘death’ of the arts and ‘human creativity’, while others affirmatively speculate on the radically new imaginative possibilities that such technologies might help crystallise. Through the ontogenetic folds of thought, matter, and technology. This PhD project will explore AI as a site of encounter for the contemporary arts, and how artists are creatively experimenting with the new kinds of ethical and political expressions that AI systems make possible. Empirically, the PhD might decide to focus on a particular artistic context (such as film, performance, music, painting, literature, photography) to explore how artists are critiquing, engaging with, and exploring the potentials of AI technologies in their work.
School of Science
Cultural Geography