The Meaning of Creativity in the Age of AI (2025)

A Digital Aesthetics? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Art

Artificial intelligence has brought about significant changes in various creative domains, sparking discussions about the nature of art and its authenticity in the era of AI. Some scholars assert that the computer monitor now serves as a canvas, a brush, a musical instrument, and even an art tutor, leading us to explore deeper connections between AI and creativity. However, in this presentation, we wish to emphasize the humanistic dimension of creative processes once more. we acknowledge the role of AI in enhancing creative endeavors, but we firmly believe that human creativity remains paramount in the production of artistic works. The current notion of machines replacing artists is, in our view, more of a media sensation than a reality. Examining the history of electronic arts, our paper argues that claims of AI's artistic superiority are not novel; they echo similar trends from the past. The current enthusiasm mirrors earlier media frenzies. While the sciences have made significant strides in unraveling the mysteries of the human brain, our understanding of the intricacies of our remarkably creative minds, their origins, and their fulfillment in our brains This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY NC), which permits distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

Art and artificial intelligence, a window into the future of the evolution of contemporary society

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies

The present work deals with the incorporation of artificial intelligence in the process of artistic creation.

AI creativity and demystification

2018

This article is written in the context of contemporary art and technology, in confluence with my profession as a technologist, and being an active artist, coming from a crafts-based practice, and recently enrolled at Chelsea College of Arts in a more progressive discourse. The presented meditation primarily consists of personal artistic and technological encounters. It is an attempt to gather my thoughts on the notion of AI creativity in the backdrop of commercialism. The 25th of October 2018, an AI (artificial intelligence) generated 'painting' was sold for $432.500 at Christie’s. For a long period a commercial with the heading; ‘A Higher Intelligence with AI’ was present in the underground of Copenhagen. We are constantly exposed to the idea, that AI has exceeded human potential, in institutions, in published media, and public spaces. This article proposes to take a step back and take a closer look at the algorithms, the machines and the AI's ability to create, with the question; what is creativity then, and where does it belong, however, before we do so, let us start by asking; what is creativity, what is AI, and moreover, how can we study these terms in the context of contemporary art with other fields of study with the goal to establish a comprehensive overview. Comment to readers (2020): Be aware that the genealogy of the term creativity presented in this article is eurocentric and therefore distorted and untrue. In the article How a Machine Learns and Fails: A Grammar of Error for Artificial Intelligence, Matteo Pasquinelli discusses the terminology and mechanisms of AI, and proposes to discuss the notion of AI-generated art as 'statistical art'.

Exploring artistic frontiers in the era of artificial intelligence

Exploring artistic frontiers in the era of artificial intelligence, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a groundbreaking force in the world of art, redefining the boundaries of creativity and offering new experiences. This article focuses on exploring the impressive realm of artistic endeavors shaped by AI and how it has changed the traditional art paradigm. The materials and techniques used in artworks produced by AI surpass traditional boundaries, incorporating elements such as virtual and augmented reality, robot technologies, and 3D printing. These approaches make significant contributions to the art world, expanding the boundaries of artistic expression and supporting the creative process for artists. Additionally, AI makes art more accessible to a broader audience, promoting inclusivity. However, these innovations also lead to significant debates in the art world. Questions about the reality of AI-generated art, the role of the artist in this process, and the future of art in the age of AI are prominent. AI-supported or AI-generated art redraws boundaries across a spectrum ranging from complex digital landscapes to interactive installations. The impact and future trajectory of these approaches depend on evolving values in the art world and society at large, holding the potential to transform artistic paradigms at the intersection of technological innovation and creative expression.

AI-Generated Art: A Futurist Manifesto

AI-Generated Art: A Futurist Manifesto, 2024

This essay proposes a futurist manifesto that explores the revolutionary potential of art generated with artificial intelligence (AI). Through a critical analysis of current artistic and technological trends, it outlines a visionary framework for how AI could radically transform the creative process and artistic perception. By examining AI-generated artworks, it highlights new modes of expression and the expanded creative possibilities this technology offers to artists. However, the manifesto goes beyond mere celebration of AI's potential in art, also addressing related ethical, social, and philosophical issues. It explores the relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence, the role of the artist in the age of creative automation, and the implications of democratizing art through AI. Finally, the manifesto aims to inspire critical reflection and constructive dialogue on the future direction of AI-generated art, inviting artists and the public to jointly explore the frontiers of artistic innovation in the 21st century.

Redefining the role of Artificial Intelligence in artistic production

Since the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, their pervasiveness has rapidly grown to the point of gaining access to one of the most typical among human activities, the one of art. In the latest years we have indeed witnessed advances outlining AI’s “creative” abilities, now finding applications in the fields of visual art, literature, poetry, and music. As a matter of fact, in many cases, people are no longer able to easily discern what is AI-made from what is human-made and show often a negative bias towards artistic products that are declared to be AI-made. Even though such technologies are capable of rapidly and efficiently generating images, texts, and music, that often are also pleasant, the history of art and aesthetics suggests that the works of art – those that we recognize as such over the centuries – have little to do with technical ability, and rather rely on aesthetic principles, of which the artwork per se is merely representative. We therefore propos...

New Frontiers of AI Art

New Frontiers of AI Art, 2025

Art generated or heavily assisted by artificial intelligence—AI art for short—is an emerging, though swiftly developing field that machines and computer programs have decisively entered. AI technologies flourish, favoring a technological development of creative processes and products in ever new directions (Cetinic & She, 2021). These days, AI is reshaping art, or, at least the art scene: Musicians and movie makers use AI applications for composition purposes, fashion designers for fabric patterns, and architects for the conception of new buildings. Photographers even use AI for choosing a subject, whereas visual artists employ AI algorithms to generate prints imitating the style of a famous painting, and as a mere technical aid. Graffiti sprayers in London’s art district have likewise started using AI plastering robots. As the examples illustrate, AI is not only altering the current ways of making art, but is also yielding something like an AI art. For, what can we call robot-aided compositions? Such pieces are still, however, uncommon. A decisive invasion of the “muses of thinking machines” in the form of autonomous, yet intriguing art pieces is still lagging behind such state of art robotics. Those that already exist are widely seen as mere gimmicks trying to gain some attention. The discrepancies evangelistic claims make with respect to the actual achievements contribute to this perception. The focus is still on trying to reduce creativity to some well-identified, domain-specific tasks. Art, however, resists such an easy translation into algorithms, offering a sui generis breeding ground for a plurality of meanings and the nourishment of ambiguity, thus often eluding axiomatic reductions.

Artificial Aesthetics: A Critical Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Media and Design, chapter 4 (Lev Manovich): AI and Myths of Creativity

Architectural Design, 2022

The current discussions about the adoption of AI (artificial intelligence) in visual arts, design, architecture, cinema, music and other arts often rely on widely accepted ideas about art and creativity. These ideas include the following: “Art is the most creative human domain.” “Art and creativity can’t be measured.” “Artists does not follow rules.” It is also commonly assumed that “computers can only follow rules,” and therefore “computers struggle to generate something novel and original.” Taken together, these ideas lead to a new assumption: “generation of original art is a great test of AI progress.” Where do these popular popular ideas about art and its relationship to creativity come from? Historically, they are quite recent. For thousands of years human creators in all human cultures made artifacts that today we put in museums and worship as great art. But their creators did not have modern concepts of art, artist, and creativity. Th goal of this text is to briefly discuss the historical origins of currently popular ideas about art and creativity, and suggest that these ideas limit our vision of cultural AI. There are a few dominant popular understandings of “art” today. Logically, they contradict each other. Despite this, they may perfectly co-exist in a single publication or conversation. Sometimes one idea dominates and others do not appear. But very often, all three are assumed to be valid in the same time. Because these ideas contradict each other, holding them together can lead to feelings of confusion and unease - and also big fears about “creative AI.”

Art, Creativity and the Potential of Artificial Intelligence

Arts, 2019

Our essay discusses an AI process developed for making art (AICAN), and the issues AI creativity raises for understanding art and artists in the 21st century. Backed by our training in computer science (Elgammal) and art history (Mazzone), we argue for the consideration of AICAN’s works as art, relate AICAN works to the contemporary art context, and urge a reconsideration of how we might define human and machine creativity. Our work in developing AI processes for art making, style analysis, and detecting large-scale style patterns in art history has led us to carefully consider the history and dynamics of human art-making and to examine how those patterns can be modeled and taught to the machine. We advocate for a connection between machine creativity and art broadly defined as parallel to but not in conflict with human artists and their emotional and social intentions of art making. Rather, we urge a partnership between human and machine creativity when called for, seeing in this collaboration a means to maximize both partners’ creative strengths.

Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Art

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