Mirrored Intelligence or Intelligent Mirror?: Historical Perspectives of AI-Based Agents in Multimedia Performance

Author:

Befera Luca1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Humanities, University of Turin

Abstract

 The present article discusses the application of AI in multimedia performance from a historical perspective, analysing the use of intelligent algorithms since the 1940s in artworks that implies computer programs designed to be functionally autonomous. It addresses the evolving notion of AI according to sociocultural processes and technical implementations and focuses on how it became observable in certain features of live plays. The authorship behind these artworks shows how the concept of ‘intelligence’ applied to computer programs has changed, entailing a different embodiment of the algorithm – i.e. its manifestation through staged devices – and human-machine relationship – i.e. the interaction with author, performer and audience before or during the play. The paper highlights some salient phases of this process as occurring in Western culture. The starting section argues that AI was first conceived as a stand-alone device and the relationship with the machine was mainly the prerogative of the authors. It will be then underlined how, due to the interest in the extemporaneous representation extended to generative algorithms, a dynamic interaction between AI and other agents has been progressively entailed. The last part will concern the technical development of machine learning and its increasing accessibility s crucial for addressing today notion of artificial intelligence. The relationship with AI agents in most recent computer-generated works has also raised ethical aspects, both when the algorithm is explicitly enacted and when it is used in the background, as equally imbued with socio-technical implications related to hybrid ecosystems.

Publisher

Open Library of the Humanities

Reference74 articles.

1. Akten, Memo 2018 Ultrachunk. Available at https://www.memo.tv/works/ultrachunk/ [Last accessed 23 October 2023].

2. Artificial Intelligence in the Creative Industries: A Review;Anantrasirichai, NantheeraDavid Bull;Artificial Intelligence Review,2022

3. Arielli, Emanuele 2021 ‘Even an AI Could Do That,’ in Artificial Aesthetics: A Critical Guide to AI, Media and Design, ed. Lev Manovich and Emanuele Arielli (http://manovich.net).

4. Arielli, Emanuele 2022 ‘Techno-Animism and the Pygmalion Effect,’ in Artificial Aesthetics: A Critical Guide to AI, Media and Design, ed. Lev Manovich and Emanuele Arielli (http://manovich.net).

同舟云学术

1.学者识别学者识别

2.学术分析学术分析

3.人才评估人才评估

"同舟云学术"是以全球学者为主线,采集、加工和组织学术论文而形成的新型学术文献查询和分析系统,可以对全球学者进行文献检索和人才价值评估。用户可以通过关注某些学科领域的顶尖人物而持续追踪该领域的学科进展和研究前沿。经过近期的数据扩容,当前同舟云学术共收录了国内外主流学术期刊6万余种,收集的期刊论文及会议论文总量共计约1.5亿篇,并以每天添加12000余篇中外论文的速度递增。我们也可以为用户提供个性化、定制化的学者数据。欢迎来电咨询!咨询电话:010-8811{复制后删除}0370

www.globalauthorid.com

TOP

Copyright © 2019-2024 北京同舟云网络信息技术有限公司
京公网安备11010802033243号  京ICP备18003416号-3