The robot does not exist: Remixing psychic automatism and artificial creative intelligence

Amerika, Mark; Hyunjhee Kim, Laura; Gallagher, Brad

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Title

The robot does not exist: Remixing psychic automatism and artificial creative intelligence

Author(s)

• Amerika, Mark
• Hyunjhee Kim, Laura
• Gallagher, Brad

Issue Date

2021-02

Keyword(s)

• media
• artists

Abstract

In the just-published Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-Tales of the Digital Afterlife, artists Mark Amerika and Laura Hyunjhee Kim perform as MALK, a new media remix band that ruminates on the post-digital life of the traditional scholarly book. Working against the concept of an e-book, the publication includes an original music video titled the Digital Afterlife as well as a downloadable PDF that the artists refer to as an imaginary digital media object (IDMO). The work has been released as the inaugural publication in the new MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series with Open Humanities Press. For this special issue of Media-N, MALK proposes their next IDMO track by focusing on the relationship between AI-generated forms of remix and artist-generated forms of psychic automatism. The experiment will start with the artists improvising a cluster of hand-drawn charts that conceptually blend their musings on what they refer to as “future forms of artificial creative intelligence.” The language in these charts will then serve as source material to input into an advanced Generative Pre-trained Transformer to trigger source material for a new music video and an adjoining PDF. Our question is whether the Generative Pre-trained Transformer as an advanced yet still essentially weak AI can co-write the artists’ IDMO as they address issues related to their research into psychic automatism and artificial creative intelligence.

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Media-N, vol. 17, issue 1

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text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/112910

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v17i1.810

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• Copyright 2021 Mark Amerika, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Brad Gallagher
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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