We live in a new complex ecology in which the clear\ndistinction between humans and machines that has characterized the\ntechnological world in the past, is becoming increasingly blurred: computer\nsystems and the logic of code are embedded in the most essential\ncharacteristics of human existence, while automated machines are acquiring\ntraits of living systems. Thanks to new developments in the field of computer\nscience, on the one hand, and in the natural sciences and new-materialism, on\nthe other, the new algorithms based machines, are no longer characterized only\nby computational mechanisms of a significant logical nature, but they take part\nalso in areas that were previously considered unique to human beings,\nespecially the creative field. Their creativity is being implemented both with respect\nto information \u2013 through the use of algorithms for identifying patterns and\nmanipulating them, and on material phenomena \u2013 through the ability to make\nmodification in the material\u2019s code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his article “Technology’s in-betweenness”\nphilosopher Luciano Floridi suggests classifying technologies by three\ncategories of order that describe the relationships between users and objects.\nWhile the first and second order technologies refer to the relationship between\ntechnology and the world of phenomena or the person who uses them, third-order\ntechnologies, relate to other technologies as users. These technologies exclude\nthe human subject from the chain of interactions and thus become autonomous.\nInformation technologies, artificial intelligence systems and artificial life\nare among the territories where third-order technologies are most fully\nrealized. In the artistic process, these technologies are becoming increasingly\nsignificant in light of the use of deep learning systems and computerized\nneural networks that enable automation of the creative processes, of which\nlearning is a central part. By this processes, they challenge the traditional\nmeaning of the concept of creativity and its unique qualities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This paper relates to artistic works which use machine creativity, whose meanings go far beyond the mediumal formulation that they present. The paper analyses the conceptual principles that machine creativity relies upon and the infrastructure that enables its performance. Based on the theories of Bruno Latour it relates to the ways in which computer systems act within different environment, virtual or material, connecting natural phenomena and objects to large data systems, and the ideological and political perceptions and value systems reflected by them. It refers to works of art that recount to the practical dimensions of learning systems and to the philosophical and ethical aspects derived from the meaning of the learning process in various contexts, particularly to the meaning of different optimization systems that deep learning mechanisms defined in relation to the concept of creativity. What is the meaning of \u201coptimizing creativity\u201d, will be a central question in that respect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We live in a new complex ecology in which the clear distinction between humans and machines that has characterized the technological world in the past, is becoming increasingly blurred: computer systems and the logic of code are embedded in the most essential characteristics of human existence, while automated machines are acquiring traits of living systems. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"single-publications.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lectures","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yaeleylatvanessen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Politics-of-the-Machine.jpg?fit=1201%2C1739&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yaeleylatvanessen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yaeleylatvanessen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yaeleylatvanessen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yaeleylatvanessen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yaeleylatvanessen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yaeleylatvanessen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/yaeleylatvanessen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yaeleylatvanessen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yaeleylatvanessen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yaeleylatvanessen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yaeleylatvanessen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}