TY - JOUR

T1 - The Machine as Artist as Myth

AU - Broeckmann, Andreas

PY - 2019/2/20

Y1 - 2019/2/20

N2 - The essay proposes an art-historical contextualisation of the notion of the "machine as artist". It argues that the art-theoretical tropes raised by current speculations on artworks created by autonomous technical systems have been inherent to debates on modern and postmodern art throughout the 20th century. Moreover, the author suggests that the notion of the machine derives from a mythological narrative in which humans and technical systems are rigidly figured as both proximate and antagonistic. The essay develops a critical perspective onto this ideological formation and elucidates its critique in a discussion of a recent series of artworks and a text by US American artist Trevor Paglen.

AB - The essay proposes an art-historical contextualisation of the notion of the "machine as artist". It argues that the art-theoretical tropes raised by current speculations on artworks created by autonomous technical systems have been inherent to debates on modern and postmodern art throughout the 20th century. Moreover, the author suggests that the notion of the machine derives from a mythological narrative in which humans and technical systems are rigidly figured as both proximate and antagonistic. The essay develops a critical perspective onto this ideological formation and elucidates its critique in a discussion of a recent series of artworks and a text by US American artist Trevor Paglen.

KW - machine

KW - art

KW - art history

KW - myth

KW - modernism

KW - artificial intelligence

KW - artificialism

KW - machine realism

KW - Philosophy

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/3289c90e-51fa-3651-84d2-3a55c270db5c/

U2 - 10.3390/arts8010025

DO - 10.3390/arts8010025

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 8

JO - Arts

JF - Arts

SN - 2076-0752

IS - 1

M1 - 25

ER -