This volume investigates the intersection of generative AI and media aesthetics from an interdisciplinary perspective. It will appeal to scholars and students within media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, philosophy, art history, visual culture studies, digital humanities, and critical AI studies.

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Jan-Noël Thon is Professor and Chair of Media Studies and Media Education at Osnabrück University, Germany.

Lukas R.A. Wilde is Professor of Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: AI Aesthetics

2. AI Horseplay: Postdigital Aesthetics in AI-Generated Images

3. Aesthetic Protocols of Popular AI Art

4. The Aesthetics of Promise: Tech-Failures and Tech-Demonstrations of Generative AI

5. Affective Realism: Reimagining Photography with the Google Pixel 9

6. Aesthetics and Rhetorics of AI Anthropomorphization: The Eliza Effect vs. the Character Effect

Index