We Have Never Been Human: Inhuman Art in Pierre Huyghe’s Liminal
Type
conference keynote
Date Issued
2025-11-26
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Abstract
Over the last decades, digital technologies have profoundly reshaped artistic production and reception; the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has further accelerated this shift by enabling systems that can generate images, music, texts, and video that appear coherent, meaningful, and aesthetically compelling. This convergence between art and AI raises pressing questions at the intersection of aesthetics and cognitive science: Can AI genuinely be creative—producing outputs that are not merely plausible but also original and artistically valuable? And how do human beings perceive, evaluate, and emotionally respond to works attributed to non-human agents?
This interdisciplinary conference brings together philosophy, aesthetics, art history, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to examine how AI is reconfiguring creative practices and redefining foundational concepts such as authorship, intention, style, and artistic agency. Contributions will address theoretical models of creativity as applied to generative systems; the ways AI alters the roles of artists, curators, and audiences within hybrid human–machine workflows; and the cultural and ethical implications of machine-generated content within contemporary visual and media ecologies.
This interdisciplinary conference brings together philosophy, aesthetics, art history, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to examine how AI is reconfiguring creative practices and redefining foundational concepts such as authorship, intention, style, and artistic agency. Contributions will address theoretical models of creativity as applied to generative systems; the ways AI alters the roles of artists, curators, and audiences within hybrid human–machine workflows; and the cultural and ethical implications of machine-generated content within contemporary visual and media ecologies.
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Event Title
Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Event Location
Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Event Date
25. - 26. November 2025
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