Art and artificial imagination

old_uid17369
titleArt and artificial imagination
start_date2019/03/25
schedule12h-13h
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location_infosalle Jean Jaurès
summaryContemporary media are fascinated by the applications of neural networks in creation. They regularly highlight moments when artificial artistic productions have "deceived" humans and "replaced" artists. All this seems to confirm that AI would have conquered up to the last ramparts of humanity: interiority and creativity. The dialogue between an art historian, invested in the digital humanities, and an artist who is himself familiar with deep learning, invites us to change our perspective. A historical and materialistic approach makes it possible to better distinguish what is new in the apparent emergence of AI in the arts and to better grasp the implicit conception of art that develops there: the change of purpose of a new technique, which generates surprising results, is also a way of thwarting the assumptions of the contemporary economic system. It suggest criticism of it as much as it opens up new possibilities.
responsiblesKrzakala, Mamassian, Mallat