Trained in art history or neuroscience, who are responsible for mostĬurrent attempts to apply cognitive science to our understanding of art. More so than the devotees of " neu-roaestherics," typically Valuable, since, as an artist himself, he takes art seriously-arguably Harrell's perspective on such questions is particularly Produces in dialogue with a human user, or in the mind of the user? Throughout: Where is the art-in the software, in the poems the software But one question recurs in the mind of the reader Occasionally labored, as he seeks to define the novel formats explored Harrell's presentation of such works in Phantasmal Media is One is looking at the results of a kind of literary-aesthetic Turing "sample outputs" side by side is slightly surreal, as though Producing a poem or series of poems in the former, and virtual textiles "system" to the process of "blending" metaphors, System-a user contributes "equally" in dialogue with the Living Liberia Fabric, 2010-two works produced using the GRIOT Polymorphic) set of metaphors that nonetheless retain a core concern The feedback between the code'sĪrchitecture and the user's subjective choices ends up producing anĪmbiguous and potentially infinitely variable (Harrell prefers the term Possible, Harrell argues, because his program uses a series ofĪlgorithms and data structures to generate narrative based on user input System" developed to produce poetry and imagery that can (heĬlaims) narrate from multiple cultural perspectives. Political thinking, is a "subjective artificial intelligence warm irony, after the West African storytellersįamous as repositories of oral tradition, musical knowledge, and His GRIOT system, for example, which he began developing inĢ002 and is named, with. have provided the conceptual foundation for The potential of new computer technologies to transform cultural Well respected, but it is his principled artistic practice, which probes Harrell's conventional scholarly production is serious and Wildly eclectic Phantasmal Media will likely find a wide audience among Institute of Technology in Cambridge His pro foundly am bitious. Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the lassachusetts The Comparative Media Studies Program and a researcher at the Computer Practicing artist, as well as an associate professor of digital media in Fox Harrell, a leading representative of this trend, is a Presenting their findings through a range of innovative exhibition Probing an intriguing range of topics still only loosely defined, and Modeled on scientific, social-scientific, and humanities research but Integrated, and digital media, they are pursuing intensive practices Institutional contexts characterized by descriptors such as new, Of artificial intelligence has increasingly captured the imagination ofĪn emerging generation of prolific scholar-artists who are mining Al for In the ensuing decades, what began as the technical field Time of Norbert Wiener and the theorization of cybernetics at Science has long held broad allure, seducing thinkers at least since the THE MYSTERIOUS GRAY AREA between cognitive science and computer Cambridge, MA MIT Press, 2013, 440 pages. Fox Harrell, Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination,Ĭomputation, and Expression. 2014 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. MLA style: "Ghost buster." The Free Library.
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