Notes toward a Phenomenology of AI Art

Jon Rafman Counterfeit Poast, 2022 4K stereo video 23:39 min MSPM JRA 49270 film still

Today I have a short piece in Outland on AI art and its embodied processing, as part of a larger suite of articles curated by Mark Amerika.

The essay offers a first taste of something I’m developing at the moment on the phenomenology of AI and the role of aesthetics as first philosophy in the contemporary world — or, AI aesthetics as the necessary foundation of AI ethics.