Why consider a relation between art and machine learning? Or, a broader question: Why consider a relation between art and technology? Are all tools open to creative use (see friedrich kittler “There Is No Software”)? How to affectively employ creativity while both production and consumption of creative work change from artisanal (hands-on, direct) to industrialized (mediated, distributed)? (see Gilbert Simondon “Technical Mentality”?

A few examples from art history:

process / materials, pedagogy / practice

strategies against identification / interpretation

framing, explanation

poetics effects produced by creative work - not so much the meaning, or the mechanism, the possibility of reading, of many meanings and many mechanisms connections

error failure mistake interruption

joan jonas - organic honey’s vertical roll

nancy holt - boomerang

yasunao tone - solo for wounded cd

helio oiticica

archives taxonomies connectionism templates organize classify cluster

  • pierre schaefer - etudes des bruits (1948)

simulation (over and about time) continuance emergence / aleatory scale / duration generative

amanda ross-ho

google arts and culture

  • https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com
  • https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/
  • https://magenta.tensorflow.org/