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"Explorers of Unknown Planets": Practices and Politics of Artificial Intelligence in Visual Arts

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Alongside recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), a new art practice has emerged in recent years that borrows and transforms these advances in the production of artworks. The actors of this emergent practice are coming from contemporary art, media and digital arts. These artists have developed an original practice of AI within their creative field. In this article, we propose a qualitative study to explore the nature of this practice. We interviewed five internationally renowned artists about how AI is integrated into their work. Through a thematic analysis of the interviews, we first find that their practice relies on crafting algorithms and data as materials. We uncover how they explicitly use this material unpredictability rather than avoid it. Secondly, we highlight the politics of their practice that consist of resisting the culture of AI research, as well as its inherent power dynamics. We also highlight how their relationship with the technology is imbued with ethics and how they rethink their role with respect to the technology. In this paper, we aim to provide the CSCW community with a way to expand the framework in which AI can be understood not only as a tool but also as cultural and political design material.
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hal-03762351 , version 1 (27-08-2022)

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Baptiste Caramiaux, Sarah Fdili Alaoui. "Explorers of Unknown Planets": Practices and Politics of Artificial Intelligence in Visual Arts. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction , 2022, 6 (CSCW2), art. n°477, pp 1-24. ⟨10.1145/3555578⟩. ⟨hal-03762351⟩
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