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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Latent Space
Spaces Latent & Liminal
Latent Space Hauntology
by Chad Eby

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
