Machinolatry and posthuman creativity between futurism, generative art and artificial intelligence

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Carolina Fernández-Castrillo
University Carlos III of Madrid-TECMERIN Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (VeDPH)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6108-6440

Generative art fulfills the Futurist promise to facilitate the process of co-creation between humans and machines. The current research addresses a potential connection between Futurism and the (post)digital present with the purpose of proposing a definition of “posthuman creativity” through the role of the artistic manifesto as a textual format of reference in the avant-garde field, both at the beginning of the 20th century and in the era of Web 3.0. Using a methodology based on media archeology, the origins of the machine condition will be reviewed in relation to the processes of creative expression in the context of media art by paying special attention to procedural art as the culmination of non-human art. A comparative analysis will be carried out of a corpus formed by two representative manifestos of the limits and possibilities of the creative alliance of humans and machines in the last century: “L’arte meccanica. Manifesto futurista” (1923) and “The Decentralized Unicist Manifesto” (2021), resulting from the employment of AI to the field of art through machine learning and neural networks. From this study, the pioneering role of this type of programmatic texts will be evaluated to define the relationship between creativity and posthumanism from two historical moments marked by the collective urgency in identifying the risks and benefits that exist in the artistic use of autonomous intelligence systems.

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media art, artificial intelligence (AI), programmatic manifest, posthumanism, postdigital avant-garde, Web 3.0

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Fernández-Castrillo, Carolina. “Machinolatry and posthuman creativity between futurism, generative art and artificial intelligence”. Artnodes, no. 34, pp. 1-8, doi:10.7238/artnodes.v0i34.427415.
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Carolina Fernández-Castrillo, University Carlos III of Madrid-TECMERIN Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (VeDPH)

European Doctor cum laude from the Complutense University of Madrid and the Sapienza Università di Roma. Her contribution to media archeology from the study of the relationship between futurism and the digital avant-garde obtained the UCM Extraordinary Doctorate Prize, the Mention of Excellence by the Royal Complutense College at Harvard and an invitation as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. Associate Professor in Transmedia Literacy and Cyberculture at University Carlos III of Madrid and researcher at TECMERIN as driving expert of the area Image technologies and innovation: media archeology. She currently leads the international project Digital Media Culture: Intercreativity and Public Engagement from the Venice Center for Digital and Public Humanities, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. Fernández-Castrillo is the coordinator of Communication and Digital Culture at the Spanish Association for Communication Research, AE-IC (2024-2028) and she has previously been director of various international research groups. She has also been an Associate Researcher at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe – where she has carried out some of her digital innovation projects on interactive and immersive communication – and a Visiting Scholar at Yale University, Bayreuth Universität and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, among others. She regularly participates in international publications, seminars and doctoral programs at renowned universities such as NYU – being at the forefront of the experiential learning area –, CityU of Hong Kong, Queen Mary University of London, Università di Bologna and Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She regularly participates in international publications, conferences and doctoral seminars at renowned universities, among others, CityU of Hong Kong, Universität Bayreuth, or NYU, where she has been a teacher and coordinator of the Experiential Learning area. Since 2009, she has been an associate researcher at ZKM | Center for Art and Technological Media in Karlsruhe, where he has developed some of her media art projects. She collaborates as a cultural manager in international festivals and institutions, such as the Venice Art Biennale –where in 2022, she introduced the concept of “media artivism”–; Juan March Foundation; Cervantes Institute; Istituto di Cultura Italiano; Matadero; or Hybrid Art Fair, from research and curatorship. In addition, she worked as journalist Cadena SER-Madrid and as art critic in LÁPIZ International art journal, among others.

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