AI Aesthetics

AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-14845-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture

This volume investigates the intersection of generative AI and media aesthetics from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining in-depth theoretical reflection with a diverse selection of case studies, its authors explore the aesthetic forms of AI-generated medial objects as well the cultural imaginaries that the latter draw upon.

Bringing together a group of scholars from various geographic and disciplinary backgrounds, the chapters move within and across different conceptualizations of “AI aesthetics” that can be located in-between an “aesthetics-as-artistics” (that is primarily concerned with aesthetic judgments related to skill and connoisseurship) and an “aesthetics-as-aisthetics” (that identifies all kinds of embodied perception as its object). The book thus reflects on both the theoretical and the methodological implications of “AI aesthetics,” while also demonstrating that this is still very much an emerging research field and that no dominant conceptualization of “AI aesthetics” has yet emerged.

Considering its decidedly international and interdisciplinary scope, AI Aesthetics: AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics will appeal to scholars and students within media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, philosophy, art history, visual culture studies, digital humanities, and critical AI studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thon, Jan-Noel

Thon, Jan-Noël

Wilde, Lukas R. A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: AI Aesthetics

2. AI Horseplay: Postdigital Aesthetics in AI-Generated Images

3. Aesthetic Protocols of Popular AI Art

4. The Aesthetics of Promise: Tech-Failures and Tech-Demonstrations of Generative AI

5. Affective Realism: Reimagining Photography with the Google Pixel 9

6. Aesthetics and Rhetorics of AI Anthropomorphization: The Eliza Effect vs. The Character Effect

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jan-Noël Thon is Professor and Chair of Media Studies and Media Education at Osnabrück University, Germany.

Lukas R.A. Wilde is Professor of Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.