A Lexicon of Generative AI

Machine Aesthetics

AI Slop
Slop didn’t need generative AI to emerge.
by Agnieszka Mensfelt

Timo Kahlen & AI: "Insights" (2024) from: "Pandora's Box". Series of AI-generated images. © Timo Kahlen / VG Bild-Kunst 2024

Generator & Discriminator

The Composer and the GAN
we would never hope to optimize human creativity for resemblance
by Simon Hutchinson

Timo Kahlen & AI: "Insights" (2024) from: "Pandora's Box". Series of AI-generated images. © Timo Kahlen / VG Bild-Kunst 2024

Intent

Artistic Intent as an Expression of Human Consciousness
Generative systems produce chaos; this is their very nature.
by Joanna E. Kabala

Timo Kahlen & AI: "Insights" (2024) from: "Pandora's Box". Series of AI-generated images. © Timo Kahlen / VG Bild-Kunst 2024

Machine Emotions

Data for Emotion
The dynamic relationship between data and emotion
by Angela Ferraiolo

Timo Kahlen & AI: "Insights" (2024) from: "Pandora's Box". Series of AI-generated images. © Timo Kahlen / VG Bild-Kunst 2024

Failure

Writing like a loser
A contextualisation of generative AI through practice, in two parts
by Peter Dukes

Timo Kahlen & AI: "Insights" (2024) from: "Pandora's Box". Series of AI-generated images. © Timo Kahlen / VG Bild-Kunst 2024

Pandora’s Box

Insights (2024)
AI-generated images explore AI’s complex, hidden nature, addressing its aesthetic potential, ethical challenges, and redefining authorship in a digital realm that transcends traditional boundaries.
by Timor Kahlen

Timo Kahlen & AI: "Insights" (2024) from: "Pandora's Box". Series of AI-generated images. © Timo Kahlen / VG Bild-Kunst 2024

Latent Space

Aesthetic Engines: A Theory in the Kinetics of Generative Sublimity
AI-generated sublime landscapes in latent spaces, blending Kantian sublimity and cinematic theories, to explore AI’s role in creating awe-inspiring digital realities
by Omar Batista

Timo Kahlen & AI: "Insights" (2024) from: "Pandora's Box". Series of AI-generated images. © Timo Kahlen / VG Bild-Kunst 2024

Latent Space

Spaces Latent & Liminal
Latent Space Hauntology
by Chad Eby

Timo Kahlen & AI: "Insights" (2024) from: "Pandora's Box". Series of AI-generated images. © Timo Kahlen / VG Bild-Kunst 2024

Machine Aesthetics

I hereby (David) Lynch you
On the work of art in the age of generative production.
by Dr. Isis Amelie Hjorth

Prompts

Prompt Engineering
Fleshy hybrids, maternal and algorithmic.
by Sarah-Jane Field