Digital media, internet and AR / VR / AI in contemporary aesthetics, art practice and art theory
Since the beginning of the 21st century, computation, data analysis, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality (henceforth AR / VR / AI) have been progressively integrated, or even invaded into the aesthetic and artistic spheres. The transformation of mass media in the 20th century is taking place in three fundamental movements: the shift to digital code, the interconnection of the 'whole world' in the online space, and finally the penetration of AR / VR / AI tools into everyday user accessibility, including in the form of generative AI tools. The movement towards online space at the level of aesthetics has established a standard for a new way of communicating through multimedia documents that combine different media such as text, photography, video, graphics and sound. At the level of distribution, the Web has (at least in theory) abolished the distinction between mass distribution, which was once associated with mass culture, and limited distribution, which was more likely reserved for small subcultures and the art system (Manovich 2001).
The fluid partnership between the digital (multi)media available on the internet, the tools of AR / VR / AI, and the sphere of art in its historical and contemporary forms has given rise to many notions, terms, and categories: e.g., post-digital culture, post-media aesthetics, virtual and augmented reality, immersive media, generative media, generative art, and many others. This new terminology calls for a professional discussion space to articulate the current state of media, which is felt as a radically transformative or even "seismic shift" in the field of aesthetics and art.
The above ideas frame the focus of the forthcoming scientific conference and point towards a fundamental question: should we view AR / VR / AI as new tools or medium of creation, or as a different ontic and ontological realities? Artificial intelligence will not be seen here as a concept covering all the problems and research questions of the conference, but as a reality that is a possible result of human efforts to understand and represent real realities, as a result of the technical mediation of the creative process.
The aim of the conference is to map and share existing approaches within the expertise of the invited experts. The outcome of the event should be a differentiation of approaches to the "(artistic and aesthetic) reality" generated by artificial intelligence; to new, virtually emerging worlds, to the products of AR / VR /AI activity that significantly intervene and reshape the aesthetic space and the perception of the subject. The conference focuses on the broader aesthetic, philosophical, art-theoretical and art-educational issues that the named situation problematizes, opening up space for a possible rethinking of traditional theoretical concepts.
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