CG-Art: demystifying the anthropocentric bias of artistic creativity

The following aesthetic discussion examines in a philosophical-scientific way the relationship between computation and artistic creativity. Currently, there is a criticism about the possible artistic creativity that an algorithm could have. Supporting the above, the term computer-generated art (CG-A...

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Main Author: Leonardo Arriagada
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-10-01
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540091.2020.1741514
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description The following aesthetic discussion examines in a philosophical-scientific way the relationship between computation and artistic creativity. Currently, there is a criticism about the possible artistic creativity that an algorithm could have. Supporting the above, the term computer-generated art (CG-Art) defined by Margaret Boden would seem to have no exponents yet. Moreover, it has been pointed out that, rather than a matter of primitive technological development, CG-Art would have in its very foundations the inability to exist. This, because art is considered as one of the most unique and exclusive human manifestations of our species. On the contrary, I propose that the denial of CG-Art has an anthropocentric bias. For this, I use the recent studies that, from the cognitive sciences, have been carried out on artistic creativity. In this way, I intend to convince the reader that behind the denial of the creative artistic capacity to the machines, a negationist mysticism of the current scientific advances necessarily lies.
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spelling doaj-art-433e8cb9068a48c2bfa08d2c5ccf16d92025-08-20T03:35:54ZengTaylor & Francis GroupConnection Science0954-00911360-04942020-10-0132439840510.1080/09540091.2020.17415141741514CG-Art: demystifying the anthropocentric bias of artistic creativityLeonardo Arriagada0Faculty of Arts, Universidad de ChileThe following aesthetic discussion examines in a philosophical-scientific way the relationship between computation and artistic creativity. Currently, there is a criticism about the possible artistic creativity that an algorithm could have. Supporting the above, the term computer-generated art (CG-Art) defined by Margaret Boden would seem to have no exponents yet. Moreover, it has been pointed out that, rather than a matter of primitive technological development, CG-Art would have in its very foundations the inability to exist. This, because art is considered as one of the most unique and exclusive human manifestations of our species. On the contrary, I propose that the denial of CG-Art has an anthropocentric bias. For this, I use the recent studies that, from the cognitive sciences, have been carried out on artistic creativity. In this way, I intend to convince the reader that behind the denial of the creative artistic capacity to the machines, a negationist mysticism of the current scientific advances necessarily lies.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540091.2020.1741514artcreativitycomputeralgorithmcg-art
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