The Language of Creative AI [electronic resource] : Practices, Aesthetics and Structures /

Introduction -- Part I: Aesthetics and contexts -- On purpose: An enquiry into the possible roles of the computer in art -- Towards a symbiotic future: Art and creative AI -- Artificial intelligence and creativity under interrogation -- AI, creativity and art -- The ethics of creative AI -- Part II: Structures and frameworks -- Ecosystemic thinking: Beyond human narcissism in AI -- Embodied AI and musicking robotics -- Latent spaces: A creative approach -- Intersections of living and machine agencies: Possibilities for creative AI -- Conformed thoughts, representational systems, and creative procedures -- Part III: Practices -- Creative AI, embodiment, and performance -- Musebots and I: Collaborating with creative systems -- Composition with computer models of the brain: An alternative approach to music with artificial intelligence -- Tuning topological morphologies: Creative processes of natural and artificial cognitive systems -- Sketching symbiosis: Towards the development of relational systems.

Creative AI defines art and media practices that have AI embedded into the process of creation, but also encompass novel AI approaches in the realisation and experience of such work, e.g. robotic art, distributed AI artworks across locations, AI performers, artificial musicians, synthetic images generated by neural networks, AI authors and journalist bots. This book builds on the discourse of AI and creativity and extends the notion of embedded and co-operative creativity with intelligent software. It does so through a human-centred approach in which AI is empowered to make the human experience more creative. It presents ways-of-thinking and doing by the creators themselves so as to add to the ongoing discussion of AI and creativity at a time when the field needs to expand its thinking. This will avoid over-academization of this emerging field, and help counter engrained prejudice and bias. The Language of Creative AI contains technical descriptions, theoretical frameworks, philosophical concepts and practice-based case studies. It is a compendium of thinking around creative AI for technologists, human-computer interaction researchers and artists who are wishing to explore the creative potential of AI.