Photo showing Ali Nikrang (Key Researcher and Artist at the Ars Electronica Futurelab) (AT) at the AI Conference Day at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021.

In recent years, new AI technologies have increasingly been incorporated into fascinating artistic projects. The ability of AI to explore new, previously unknown perspectives of data certainly seems to enable new areas of artistic creation. But it also raises questions about possible forms of collaboration between AI and human artists. To create something, we always need the intention to create. But how can artistic intention be communicated with an AI system? How does the degree of autonomy of an AI system affect human-AI collaboration? Are less autonomous AI systems better suited for artistic tasks because they give humans more freedom?

Credit: vog.photo 2021