LITERATURE REVIEW (selection of key texts)
The Ghost in the Machine, Koestler, 1967
A seminal text from the ‘Cognitive Revolution’ of the 1950-60s. Koestler dismantles the school of Behaviourism and proposes the study of ‘invisible’ agencies (memory, emotion, language etc.) as the proper subject of psychology.
Cognition and Reality: principles and implications of cognitive psychology, Neisser 1976
Neisser builds on Koestler’s work, criticising mechanistic information-processing models and stressing differences between perception in the external world and in experimental laboratory situations
L. Gonog and Y. Zhou, "A Review: Generative Adversarial Networks," 2019
An overview of how twin neural networks generate novel data in multiple use cases.
Database aesthetics : art in the age of information overflow, Viktorija Vesna editor. 2007
“After the novel, and subsequently cinema privileged narrative as the key form of cultural expression of the modern age, the computer age introduces its correlate — database. “Lev Manovich. Discussion of paradigmatic and syntagmatic structures, database as paradigm, webpage (for example) as syntagm.
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity Miller, Arthur, 2019
Miller argues that computers can already be as creative as humans; and will probably surpass us. But this is not a dystopian perspective; Miller celebrates the creative possibilities of AIs in art, music, and literature.
Creative encounters of a posthuman kind – anthropocentric law, artificial intelligence, and art
Kalpokiene, Julija ; Kalpokas, Ignas
Technology in society, 2023, Vol.72,
Postulates the end of the Anthropocene era and the beginning of Transhumanist era, where we accept that we share the planet with other entities: flora, fauna, natural forces – and technology. Also, 4 perspectives / definitions on ‘creativity’ questioning what constitutes the ‘right kind’ of agent.
What Is the Philosophy of Movement?
Thomas Nail, Volume 1, Number 1, January 2022, 09-25 https://doi.org/
Further thinking on the above, proposing a universal theory of ‘movement’. Quantum mechanics provides evidence of continual motion – in contrast to traditional western concepts of stasis preceding motion.
On difference without Seperability
Denise Ferreira da Silva
As above, the concept of an ‘Entangled World’. Political implications: “difference is not a manifestation of an unresolvable estrangement, but the expression of an elementary entanglement.”
DALL-E – Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation, Ramesh et al, 2021
By the developers of the text-to-image agent, DALL-E. A bit over my head, if I’m honest.
P: (x; y; z) = p (x j y; z)p (y; z), anyone?
The Creativity Code: How Ai is Learning to Write, Paint and Think , Marcus du Sautoy 2019
Lovelace ‘perfectly encapsulates, you need a bit of Byron as much as Babbage.’ Extensive consideration of Human/Machine creativity, potentials and hazards.
The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms, Margaret Boden, 1990
How creativity can be understood through the lens of cognitive psychology and computational modelling. Boden examines how computers and algorithms can be programmed to exhibit creative behaviour – challenging the notion that creativity is solely a human trait. Also, types of creativity: exploratory, transformational, and combinational.
CAN: Creative Adversarial Networks, Generating "Art" by Learning About Styles and Deviating from Style Norms, Ahmed Elgammal et al, 2023
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07068
Further evolution of GANs to increase deviation from recognised styles.
Ryan O’Connor, 2023, https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/emergent-abilities-of-large-language-models/
Regarding emergent abilities as parameters of scale are reached. Comparison with natural processes e.g. water when it reaches 0 or 100 degrees.
arxiv.org/pdf/2206.07682.pdf?ref=assemblyai.com
Wei et al, 2022
As above “An ability is emergent if it is not present in smaller models but is present in larger models.”
And “when a language model achieves random performance until a certain scale, after which performance significantly increases to well-above random.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html,
The guru of cognitive linguistics is not impressed by ChatGPT. Contains several debatable assertions about what AI is not doing
Full Bibliography
Guy Debord and the Situationist International & The Consul: Ralph Rumney. (Nonfiction)
Rotella, Mark ; Gold, Sarah F ; Andriani, Lynn ; Scharf, Michael
Publishers Weekly, 2002,
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Miller, Arthur I
2019
Database aesthetics : art in the age of information overflow
Bulajiâc, Viktorija Vesna.
2007
Modern painting and the northern romantic tradition : Friedrich to Rothko
Rosenblum, Robert, 1927-
1975
The fundamentals of digital art
Colson, Richard.
C2007
https://thesinisterscience.com/tag/asger-jorn/
Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincare (review)
Safranek, John
The Review of metaphysics, 2018, Vol.72 (2), p.398-399
Approaches to landscape
Muir, Richard, 1943-
1998
The language of landscape
Spirn, Anne Whiston,
Anna McLauchlan (2017) Cartographies of the absolute: an aesthetics of the economy for the twenty-first century, Journal of Cultural Geography, 34:2, 269-271
Landscape and power / edited by W. J. T. Mitchell.
Radical landscapes : art, identity and activism
Pih, Darren.; Bruni, Laura.; Tate Gallery Liverpool.
2022
Landscape : construction of a reality
Pakesch, Peter.; Bucher Trantow, Katrin.; Huemer, Katia.; Kunsthaus Graz.; Camera Austria.; Kunsthaus Graz; Neue Galerie Graz (Universalmuseum Joanneum).; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum.
2015
Visions of the city : utopianism, power and politics in twentieth-century urbanism
Pinder, David.
Landscapes of memory and experience
Birksted, Jan, 2000
Walkscapes : walking as an aesthetic practice
Careri, Francesco,
Drawing water : drawing as a mechanism for exploration
Kovats, Tania. author.; Fruit Market Gallery, host institution.
2014
Radical atoms and the alchemists of our time
Stocker, Gerfrieded.; Schopf, Christineed.; Leopoldseder, Hannes,
2016
Simplicity : the art of complexity
Stocker, Gerfried.
Schèopf, Christine.
The psychogeography of urban architecture
Prescott-Steed, David, 1975-
2013
You are here : personal geographies and other maps of the imagination
Harmon, Katharine.
2004
Digital landscape architecture now
Amoroso, Nadia.
2012
Kitchin, Rob (2023) Arts-based methods for researching digital life. Working Paper. Data Stories Project, Maynooth. (Unpublished)
Creative encounters of a posthuman kind – anthropocentric law, artificial intelligence, and art
Kalpokiene, Julija ; Kalpokas, Ignas
Technology in society, 2023, Vol.72, p.102197
https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.mdx.ac.uk/science/article/pii/S0160791X23000027?via%3Dihub
https://monoskop.org/images/c/c3/Bateson_Gregory_Mind_and_Nature.pdf
https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.mdx.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1080/14626268.2023.2174557
KIM, B., 2023. LET'S STOP PRETENDING- CHATGPT ISN'T THAT SMART. Barron's, 103(7), pp. 19-20.
BROOKS, D., 2023, Feb 03. In the Age of A.I., Major in Being Human: [Op-Ed]. New York Times. ISSN 03624331.
https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.mdx.ac.uk/book/10.1007/978-3-030-43859-3
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html
Howard Eichenbaum,
The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map … of Social Space,
Neuron,
Volume 87, Issue 1,
2015,
Pages 9-11,
ISSN 0896-6273,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.06.013.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627315005267)
Cleland, C. (2019). The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life: Searching for Life As We Don't Know It (Cambridge Astrobiology). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781139046893
Ehrich, Robert W. American Anthropologist, 1958, Vol.60 (6), p.1239-1240
ISSN: 0002-7294
Snow C (1959) The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press;
L. Gonog and Y. Zhou, "A Review: Generative Adversarial Networks," 2019
Boden, Margaret A
The AI magazine, 2009, Vol.30 (3), p.23
Goldizen, Robson, 2015, 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0325
Chomsky, N. (1988). Language and problems of knowledge: The Managua lectures. MIT Press.
Shapiro, James. 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare . Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition.
JONATHAN BATE Soul of the Age
The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare
Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
Goodman, Ruth (2015-11-04T22:58:59.000). How to be a Tudor. Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
The Genius of Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, 2016, Picador
CAN: Creative Adversarial Networks, Generating "Art" by Learning About Styles and Deviating from Style Norms
Ahmed Elgammal, Bingchen Liu, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Marian Mazzone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07068
Ryan O’Connor, 2023, https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/emergent-abilities-of-large-language-models/
Cognition and Reality : principles and implications of cognitive psychology, Neisser, Ulric. 1976
Moruzzi, C. (2020). Artificial Creativity and General Intelligence. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 12(3), 84-99. https://doi.org/10.34632/jsta.2020.9481
Defending humankind Millet, Kobe; Buehler, Florian; Du, Guanzhong; Kokkoris, Michail D. published in Computers in Human Behavior 2023 DOI (link to publisher) 10.1016/j.chb.2023.107707
Shakespeare's speaking pictures : studies in iconic imagery / John Doebler 1974
Cognition / Margaret W. Matlin, 2004
Imagination : a psychological critique / Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated with an introduction by Forrest Williams, 1962
How images think / Ron Burnett, 2004
Shakespeare’s Speaking Pictures, Studies in iconic Imagery, John Doebler, 1974
What Is the Philosophy of Movement? Thomas Nail January 2022, 09-25 https://doi.org/
https://www.proquest.com/docview/1513348859?accountid=12441
The creative mind myths and mechanisms Boden, Margaret A, 2004
Moruzzi, C. (2020). Artificial Creativity and General Intelligence. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 12(3), 84-99. https://doi.org/10.34632/jsta.2020.9481
A Republican Dream? -- Americans Question Shakespeare
https://www.proquest.com/docview/1513348859?accountid=12441
Is AI generating an ‘averaged’, one-sided, view of art history? Clara Che Wei Peh
30 June 2023
Artists are getting creative to counter visual language being skewed by image-generating apps that average out scraped stock photos and social media files into “mean images”.
Anantrasirichai, N., Bull, D. Artificial intelligence in the creative industries: a review. Artif Intell Rev 55, 589–656 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-021-10039-7
Artificial Intelligence in Music and Performance: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.15843.pdf
https://cdn2.assets-servd.host/creative-pec/production/assets/publications/PEC-and-Nesta-report-The-art-in-the-artificial.pdf