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“InterArtes”, 2023 - Number 3

« InterArtes », 2023 - Numéro 3

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Published on Tuesday, January 03, 2023

Abstract

Today, technological advances seem to point towards the artificial creation of complex singularities. The process of artistic creation is clearly at the heart of this paradigm shift whose implications are as much aesthetic and scientific as they are ethical, political, and then legal, economic, social, environmental... The third issue of InterArtes will be devoted to critically questioning the relationship between “Artistic Creativity and Automation”, both with theoretical contributions and with essays of a historical and empirical nature.

Announcement

Call for papers, InterArtes, n° 3, 2023 : “AI : ArtIntelligence”

Argument

In the first two issues of InterArtes, we dealt with ’border permeability’ and ’hybridisation’ as fundamental concepts of contemporaneity. There is also another boundary that this journal ‒ dedicated as it is to research and reflection on artistic phenomena considered in their most broadly multi-semiotic and inter-semiotic sense ‒ cannot fail to attend to carefully, all the more so in an era of experimental hybridisations that seem to aspire to its abolition. That boundary is between what we call artistic creation and what is instead the product of automation.

Artificial intelligence and the search for unlimited energy sources characterise the current, powerful trend towards an increasingly efficient ’algorithmisation’ and artificialisation of all human activity, which is particularly affecting the ’arts’, understood in the broadest sense as practical fields inextricably dependent by their nature on historically particular contexts. In principle, this makes every art irreducible to the utopias/dystopias of overarching control and replicability. This is why, until a few decades ago, artistic and academic-scientific cultures could easily criticise the Mechanism of technologising fantasies, contrasting it with the complex singularity of each creative phenomenon. Today, we are witnessing a manifest reversal of perspectives: technological advances seem to point towards the artificial creation of complex singularities, i.e. towards the imitation or duplication of vital systems and their characteristic ability to maintain themselves over time while continually varying and managing a certain amount of entirely anti-mechanistic unpredictability. The process of artistic creation is clearly at the heart of this paradigm shift whose implications are as much aesthetic and scientific as they are ethical, political, and then legal, economic, social, environmental...

For these reasons, the third issue of InterArtes will be devoted to critically questioning the relationship between “Artistic Creativity and Automation”, both with theoretical contributions and with essays of a historical and empirical nature.

  • To what extent, on a speculative level and on the level of contemporary artistic practices, are these terms irreducible, if not downright contrary?
  • What specific contributions has neuroscientific research of recent decades made to investigating this question?
  • Which works, currents, schools, and poetics have made it - in an explicitly ideologised or implicitly depicted way, in an oppositional or analogical perspective - a conceptual dyad that is, in fact, operational?
  • To what extent is the landscape of contemporary art and literature characterised by artistic explorations of the expressive potential of a growing mass of technological innovations, and to what extent, on the other hand, are research and technological development aiming to replace human subjectivity even in artistic and literary creation?

These questions should be set against the backdrop of the more general problem of the relationship between art and technology. Their common semantic root in the classical Greek idea of techne makes all the more significant the clear divergence that they appear to have undergone ‒ on a political as well as socio-historical level ‒ with the rise, affirmation and current structural crisis of the thermo-industrial civilisation. This overshadows risks of self-extinction of the human species but at the same time fuels increasingly frenzied expectations of ’singularities’ capable of transcending its physical and biological limits.

Topic Proposals

Among the research questions that this issue of InterArtes wishes to stimulate us to investigate, through one or more fields of artistic and literary production or aesthetic reflection, are, by way of example and without any claim to exhaustiveness:

  • Which practices and issues, from a historical perspective or that of contemporary experimentation and criticism, are inherent to the idea of automation of the creative process? Which, on the other hand, are inherent to the use of algorithms and automation technologies for non-automated creativity?
  • What particular points of contact and distinctive elements characterise the theoretical comparison between literary practices of rewriting (and their analogues in other arts) and algorithmic proceduralisation of creative processes?
  • What boundaries, respective peculiarities, and possible entanglements and hybridisations exist between human subjectivity and emerging ’artificial’ subjectivities (AI) in artistic creation and enjoyment?
  • What forms (and historical-aesthetic dynamics) of artistic resistance to the dehumanisation or transhumanisation of the creative process is it possible to map in the contemporary and mid-period of the long rise of automation technologies?
  • In which literary and artistic works and research can we find forms of representation of this problem?

How to apply

The texts proposed, which will have a theoretical or analytical framework with theoretical premises, must be unpublished and written in Word format, in compliance with the journal’s editorial rules published on the website, and will be subject to double-blind peer review.

Languages accepted: Italian, English, French.

Articles should be sent, accompanied by a brief bio-bibliographical note, to: interartes@iulm.it.

by 15 June 2023.

Direction

Laura Brignoli, Silvia Zangrandi, Department of Humanistic Studies, IULM University - Milan

Scientific Committee

  • Daniele Agiman (Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi Milano) ;
  • Maurizio Ascari (Università di Bologna) ;
  • Sergio Raúl Arroyo García (Già Direttore Generale del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia) ;
  • Claude Cazalé Bérard (Université Paris X) ;
  • Gabor Dobo (Università di Budapest) ;
  • Felice Gambin (Università di Verona) ;
  • Maria Teresa Giaveri (Accademia delle Scienze di Torino) ;
  • Maria Chiara Gnocchi (Università di Bologna) ;
  • Augusto Guarino (Università L’Orientale di Napoli) ;
  • Rizwan Kahn (AMU University, Aligarh);
  • Anna Lazzarini (Università di Bergamo) ;
  • Massimo Lucarelli (Université de Caen) ;
  • Elisa María Martinez Garrido (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) ;
  • Martinez Falero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) ;
  • Donata Meneghelli (Università di Bologna) ;
  • Giampiero Moretti (Università Orientale di Napoli) ;
  • Raquel Navarro Castillo (Escuela Nacional de Antropologìa y Historia, Mexico) ;
  • Francesco Pigozzo (Università ecampus) ;
  • Richard Saint-Gelais (Université Laval, Canada) ;
  • Massimo Scotti (Università di Verona) ;
  • Chiara Simonigh (Università di Torino) ;
  • Evanghelia Stead (Université Versailles Saint Quentin) ;
  • Andrea Valle (Università di Torino) ;
  • Cristina Vignali (Université de Savoie-Mont Blanc) ;
  • Frank Wagner (Université de Rennes 2) ;
  • Anna Wegener (Università di Firenze);
  • Haun Saussy (University of Chicago);
  • Susanna Zinato (Università di Verona).

Places

  • via Carlo Bo 1
    Milan, Italian Republic (20143)

Event attendance modalities

Full on-site event


Date(s)

  • Thursday, June 15, 2023

Keywords

  • artificial creation, technologising fantasies, artistic creation, transhumanisation

Contact(s)

  • rédaction interartes journal
    courriel : interartes [at] iulm [dot] it

Reference Urls

Information source

  • Laura Brignoli
    courriel : laura [dot] brignoli [at] iulm [dot] it

License

CC0-1.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

To cite this announcement

« AI: ArtIntelligence », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, January 03, 2023, https://doi.org/10.58079/1a9u

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