AI art comprises a spectrum of creative endeavors that emerge from and respond to the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the expansion of AI-powered economies, and their influence on culture and society. Within this repertoire, the relationship between the cognitive value of human vision and the wide application range of computer vision (CV) technologies opens a sizeable space for exploring the problematic sociopolitical aspects of automated inference and decision-making in modern AI. In this paper, I examine the art practices critically engaged with the notions and protocols of CV. After identifying and contextualizing the CV-related tactical AI art, I discuss the features of exemplar artworks in four interrelated subject areas. Their topical imbrications, common critical points, and shared pitfalls plot a wider landscape of tactical AI art, allowing me to detect factors that affect its poetic cogency, social responsibility, and political impact, some of which exist in the theoretical premises of digital art activism. Along these lines, I outline the routes for addressing the challenges and advancing the field.
翻译:AI艺术涵盖了一系列创造性实践,这些实践源于并回应人工智能(AI)的发展、AI驱动经济的扩张及其对文化和社会的影响。在这一领域中,人类视觉的认知价值与计算机视觉(CV)技术的广泛应用范围之间的关系,为探索现代AI中自动化推理与决策的问题性社会政治层面开辟了广阔空间。本文批判性地考察了与CV概念及协议密切相关的艺术实践。在识别并语境化与CV相关的战术性AI艺术后,我讨论了四个相互关联的主题领域中代表性艺术作品的特性。它们的主题交织、共同批判点及共有的缺陷勾勒出战术性AI艺术的更广阔图景,使我得以识别影响其诗意说服力、社会责任感和政治影响力的因素,其中一些因素存在于数字艺术行动主义的理论前提中。基于此,我提出了应对挑战并推动该领域发展的路径。