Artificial Intelligence: art, artist or medium? 2

Artificial Intelligence: art, artist or medium? 1

Hod Lipson, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Creative Machines Laboratory at Columbia University in New York, is working on the project in which robots paint physical oil canvases and argues that we are seeing the birth of a new genre of visual art. And it was an ultra-realistic robot-painting that marked the 59th Venice Art Biennale, in 2022.
Named after computer pioneer Ada Lovelace, Ai-Da was built and finished in 2019 by a team of programmers, psychologists, and experts in art and robotics. When exposed, she responds to the public's questions while performing her paintings. The result of her production ends up in the background, since the attraction seems to be the robot itself, so that the artist plays the role of an artistic object.
The robot Ai-da brings us to another point of debate, which is the critic. How can art experts judge a production based on algorithms? Criticism is not yet ready to categorically evaluate these works, the research is under construction and it is the critic's role to also reflect on whether the suppression of subjectivity in the creative process still operates in a sensitive sphere of society or if it only offers a dazzle with the technical preciosity.
Artificial intelligence involves a grouping of several technologies to simulate complex human activities such as learning capacity, problem solving, language understanding and decision making, but there is no perspective that reaches subjective levels of sensitivity and expression, so it is not the time to sentence art to death.

Art is dialectical, its meaning has never been easy to delimit and it is always renewed, Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri, artist and professor at the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University, in Leicester, England, reveals, optimistically, in a live from the Pontifical Universidade Católica de São Paulo: “What really interests me and what I think is the state of the art in production and research on artificial intelligence and creativity is the development of methods, methodologies of artistic doing, of creative doing, where artificial intelligence works as a real-time collaborator for artists”.

The excessive cult of technology cannot be replaced by the sensitivity that only humans are endowed with, the fascination needs to be followed by criticism, in this way it is possible, as the professor points out, to use tools and methods in a libertarian and non-resigned way.

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