The advent of generative artificial intelligence will develop new art forms using this revolutionary technology, redefining the role of the artist and the positioning of art itself in its relationship with society. AI does not limit its impact to contemporary art, but invests the entire creative industries market: from graphic design to video art, from immersive installations to special effects. We here, however, will try to focus its possible consequences in the more limited context of contemporary art, which with its freedom of expression, its critical and provocative thinking, its vertical analytical research, and its revolutionary innovation, its physicality made of matter and bodily experience, looms as one of the antidotes to the dystopian effects of artificial intelligence. The deep awareness typical of contemporary art will be invaluable to Homo Extensus in facing the challenges opened by artificial intelligence. First of all, art can be useful in exposing the psychological tricks created ad hoc by big tech companies, primarily its dangerous and deceptive humanization. Moreover, the provocativeness, transgression, and visionary innovation of the artistic avant-garde are deeply human forms of critical and creative thinking.
Art in all its forms will contribute strongly in the construction of an extended culture in the age of the advent of artificial intelligence. The spread of extended works-physical, hybrid, and digital-in the land and online will play a decisive role in the establishment of a new shared culture. All the arts, from painting to sculpture, theater to architecture, music, and film, will be impacted by artificial intelligence, both in the creative process and in the modes of enjoyment.
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