ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) Philosophical Seminar 

Claire Anscomb

(De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom)

March, 21. h 6 pm

 

 

Online

https://unito.webex.com/unito/j.php?MTID=m3fea51daad5640ac653c95daf1ba7590

 

AI: Artistic Tool or Collaborator?

As applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in artistic practices become increasingly advanced, so have the interactions between humans and AIs. What AIs generate can affect and inform what humans do, and vice versa, giving rise to feedback loops that can constitute a crucial aspect of the production of a work. Resultantly, some artists have started describing these systems as creative partners or collaborators. If it is appropriate to describe these dynamics in terms of collaboration, as I demonstrate, it is important to determine the form and nature of these joint efforts, given the appreciative relevance of different types of contribution to the production of an artwork. Accordingly, I examine three kinds of collaboration that can be found in the philosophical literature on artistic authorship – collective authorship, co-creatorship, and co-production - to determine whether human-AI interactions comprise joint efforts as per such kinds, or whether AI systems are just particularly complex artistic tools.

Claire Anscomb is a Lecturer in Fine Art at De Montfort University and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Liverpool. She was awarded the 2021 John Fisher Memorial Prize and 2022 Irene H. Chayes New Voices Award by the American Society for Aesthetics, and has published on topics including AI art, creativity in artistic and scientific practices, and photographic phenomenology. She is co-editor of Debates in Aesthetics and a practicing artist.

ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) is a periodic philosophical seminar organized by the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences of the University of Turin and the PhD Program FINO. 

Coordinators:

Prof. Alessandro Bertinetto (University of Turin). 

Prof. Federico Vercellone (University of Turin). 

 

Members:

Prof. Carlo Serra (University of Turin/University of Calabria)

Prof.ssa Serena Feloj (University of Pavia)

Dr. Alberto Martinengo (University of Turin)

Dr. Paolo Furia (University of Turin)

Dr. Lisa Giombini (University Rome 3)

Dr. Gregorio Tenti (University of Turin)

Dr. Amalia Salvestrini (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi FIlosofici, Neaples)

Dr. Francesca Monateri (Pisa, Scuola Normale)

Dr. Francesca Perotto (FINO)

Dr. Ivan Quartesan (FINO)

Dr. Sofia Boz (University of Padua)

Dr. Leonardo Pietropaolo (University di Turin)

Dr. Luisa Sampugnaro (University di Turin)

Dr. Nicola Davide Angerame (Turin)

 

 

ART addresses different topics of the contemporary debate in Aesthetics: philosophy of beauty, philosophy of the arts, theory of sensory experience, philosophy of image and imagination, and history of aesthetics.

 

ART is supported by:

Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulla Morfologia Francesco Moiso (CIM)
Centro Studi Arti della Modernità

Centro Studi Filosofico-religiosi "Luigi Pareyson"

 

ART is sponsored by: 

Italian Society for Aesthetics (SIE) 
European Society for Aesthetics (ESA)