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The Inspiration Machine - Computational Creativity in Poetry and Jazz
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Explores how creative digital technologies and artificial
intelligence are embedded in culture and society. Â In The
Inspiration Machine, Eitan Y. Wilf explores the transformative
potentials that digital technology opens up for creative practice
through three ethnographic cases, two with jazz musicians and one
with a group of poets. At times dissatisfied with the limitations
of human creativity, these artists do not turn to computerized
algorithms merely to execute their preconceived ideas. Rather, they
approach them as creative partners, delegating to them different
degrees of agentive control and artistic decision-making in the
hopes of finding inspiration in their output and thereby expanding
their own creative horizons. Â The algorithms these artists
develop and use, however, remain rooted in and haunted by the
specific social predicaments and human shortfalls that they were
intended to overcome. Experiments in the digital thus hold an
important lesson: although Wilf’s interlocutors returned from
their adventures with computational creativity with modified,
novel, and enriched capacities and predilections, they also gained
a renewed appreciation for, and at times a desire to re-inhabit,
non-digital creativity. In examining the potentials and pitfalls of
seemingly autonomous digital technologies in the realm of art, Wilf
shows that computational solutions to the real or imagined
insufficiencies of human practice are best developed in relation
to, rather than away from, the social and cultural contexts that
gave rise to those insufficiencies, in the first place.
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Eitan Y. Wilf
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-82831-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-226-82831-X |
Barcode: |
9780226828312 |
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