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The Canon and its Boundaries in the Age of its Algorithmic Reinterpretation

Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2023

Abstract

As artificial intelligence systems and tools increasingly influence people and society, awareness of new processes of creating certain works of art and the question of their inclusion in the context of cultural production is also growing. In order to define the space in which these phenomena take place, it is also important to understand how these works of art are created and how their nature changes.

In this paper, several different positions are presented, identifying different opportunities and risks associated with the existence of artificial intelligence systems, using their tools to create works of art, and reinterpreting the role of canons as potential significant network structures, communication platforms, and datasets. It is primarily an effort to point out the possibility of a certain dynamic opening of the boundaries of the canon for new communication about works of art, communication between their users and for computational communication between individual works, which has become a direct part of art production.