From Fingers to Digits: An Artificial Aesthetic

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Margaret A. Boden (Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex) Ernest A. Edmonds (Professor of Computational Art, De Montfort University)

From Fingers to Digits

An Artificial Aesthetic

Margaret A. Boden (Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex), Ernest A. Edmonds (Professor of Computational Art, De Montfort University), Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor, Leonardo/ISAST) , Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)

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MIT Press
16 July 2019

Advertising & society; Human-computer interaction

Series: Leonardo

Essays on computer art and its relation to more traditional art, by a pioneering practitioner and a philosopher of artificial intelligence.

In From Fingers to Digits, a practicing artist and a philosopher examine computer art and how it has been both accepted and rejected by the mainstream art world. In a series of essays, Margaret Boden, a philosopher and expert in artificial intelligence, and Ernest Edmonds, a pioneering and internationally recognized computer artist, grapple with key questions about the aesthetics of computer art. Other modern technologies-photography and film-have been accepted by critics as ways of doing art. Does the use of computers compromise computer art's aesthetic credentials in ways that the use of cameras does not?

Is writing a computer program equivalent to painting with a brush? Essays by Boden identify types of computer art, describe the study of creativity in AI, and explore links between computer art and traditional views in philosophical aesthetics. Essays by Edmonds offer a practitioner's perspective, considering, among other things, how the experience of creating computer art compares to that of traditional art making. Finally, the book presents interviews in which contemporary computer artists offer a wide range of comments on the issues raised in Boden's and Edmonds's essays.

By: Margaret A. Boden (Research Professor of Cognitive Science University of Sussex), Ernest A. Edmonds (Professor of Computational Art, De Montfort University)
Series edited by: Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor Leonardo/ISAST), Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 24mm
ISBN: 9780262039628
ISBN 10: 0262039621
Series: Leonardo
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 16 July 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Margaret A. Boden is Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man, expanded second edition (MIT Press), AI- Its Nature and Future, The Creative Mind, and other books. She was the 2018 recipient of the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award for contributions to the philosophy of cognitive science. Ernest Edmonds is an artist who has pioneered the use of computers and computational ideas in his art. He has exhibited in the US, UK, Australia, Russia, China, and many other countries. He is the author of The Art of Interaction- What HCI Can Learn from Interactive Art, and other books. He was awarded the 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art.

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An Artificial Aesthetic

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