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The historical spread of artificial intelligence could bring about a radical change in the art world, paving the way for new currents capable of altering the very coordinates of contemporary art, which today is too marginal to take the lead in the dramatic cultural transformation ahead. The contemporary art context currently consists of a proliferation…

Ever since Turing’s definition of artificial intelligence as an indistinguishable simulation of humans, it has been characterized as a fiction. Art itself, moreover, is based on fiction, as Pliny’s account of Zeusi and Parrasius describes well: the painter Parrasius wins the competition with Zeusi because he manages to fool the man by simulating a veil…

“Collective automatic art” is one of the most fitting definitions of the art form that could be practiced with AI image generation. Automatic, because the images are produced through automatisms made in servers by algorithms not directly controlled by the author. Collective, because their raw material is the immense amount of shared imagery, which is…

The artist using AI image generation explores universal imagery. Knowledge of the global visual universe, the ability to move through art history, to uncover deep connections, is a key skill to make ad hoc use of the “planetary palette” of AI image generation. However, the question of rights must also be addressed. In a sense,…

The advent of generative artificial intelligence platforms is revolutionizing the visual arts, introducing new players into the field, particularly creators with visual literacy but not necessarily manual skills. For several decades, contemporary art has focused on the conceptual act, on the idea rather than material execution. Beginning with the provocations of Marcel Duchamp, since the…

In the West art has always been practiced principally byprofessionals, who constituted a small part of society. In primitive societies, by contrast, image-making is often practiced by anyone. This is what happens to humans all over the world in the early years of development: all children draw, in primitive form. There have, moreover, been periods…

The connection between images and texts in artificial intelligence is profound. It occurs both at the origin, during the process of training AI models by labeling images with texts, and at the moment of creation, when a text prompt asks the model to generate new images. Investigating the relationship between art and speech is a…

We cannot ignore the impact that AI image generation technology will have on all creative industries, including art. Already, images, videos, and music can be produced through simple prompts, and this process is only in its infancy. Creative professionals and artists will have to take a stand. It is likely that many contemporary artists who…

In describing the essence of the process of generating images using artificial intelligence, we will not focus on the technicalities, which are constantly evolving, but on the revolutionary characteristics of AI image generation in relation to other image generation processes developed over millennia of human history. Indeed, the new process has peculiar properties that propose…