Øystein Fjeldbo - electronic music & multimedia installations - Norway
Into the AI Vortex: The Production of Cultural Derivative Goo Sar Conference 2023 Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Diffusion Models, Computation, Art Theory, SAR Conference 2023
In his 1986 book The Engines of Creation, the nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler provoked with a thought experiment: if self-replicating technology exponentially grows, it will eventually leave its total environment of resources, required for production, as one large “gray goo.” Hence, coined as the Gray Goo scenario. This presentation argues that the field of AI cultural production, or AI Art, might approach a similar scenario. In the sense that, large scale AI models — DALLE-2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusi
The title above imaginatively projects the mis-en-scène of a Platonic blockbuster: a parable of a science-fictional character stuck between the illusions of the senses and the idealities of the mind. To a certain extent this is the case, but only to provoke a philosophical backtracking of our present digital computational paradigm. The title sets a narrative of computation departing into two directions: in the first the automaton descends deeper into the cave as preconceptual and pre-apperceptive intelligen
Øystein Fjeldbo - electronic music & multimedia installations - Norway