1st Edition

AI Aesthetics AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics

Edited By Jan-Noël Thon, Lukas R.A. Wilde Copyright 2025
136 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume investigates the intersection of generative AI and media aesthetics from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining in-depth theoretical reflection with a diverse selection of case studies, its authors explore the aesthetic forms of AI-generated medial objects as well as the cultural imaginaries that the latter draw upon.   Bringing together a group of scholars from various... Read more

1. Introduction: AI Aesthetics, Jan-Noël Thon and Lukas R.A. Wilde; 2. AI Horseplay: Postdigital Aesthetics in AI-Generated Images, Jan-Noël Thon; 3. Aesthetic Protocols of Popular AI Art, Lotte Philipsen; 4. The Aesthetics of Promise: Tech-Failures and Tech-Demonstrations of Generative AI, Olga Moskatova; 5. Affective Realism: Reimagining Photography with the Google Pixel 9, Michelle Henning; 6. Aesthetics and Rhetorics of AI Anthropomorphization: The Eliza Effect vs. The Character Effect, Lukas R.A. Wilde

Biography

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.