📗 Libro en inglés THE INSPIRATION MACHINE

Explores how creative digital technologies and artificial intelligence are embedded in culture and society In The Inspiration Machine Eitan Y Wilf explores the transformative potentials that digital technology opens up for creative practice through three ethnographic cases two with jazz musicians and one with a group of poets At times dissatisfied with the limitations of human creativity these artists do not turn to computerized algorithms merely to execute their preconceived ideas Rather they approach them as creative partners delegating to them different degrees of agentive control and artistic decision making in the hopes of finding inspiration in their output and thereby expanding their own creative horizons The algorithms these artists develop and use however remain rooted in and haunted by the specific social predicaments and human shortfalls that they were intended to overcome Experiments in the digital thus hold an important lesson although Wilf s interlocutors returned from their adventures with computational creativity with modified novel and enriched capacities and predilections they also gained a renewed appreciation for and at times a desire to re inhabit non digital creativity In examining the potentials and pitfalls of seemingly auton