From Fingers to Digits: An Artificial Aesthetic

Book Description

Essays on computer art and its relation to more traditional art, by a pioneering practitioner and a philosopher of artificial intelligence.

In From Fingers to Digits, a practicing artist and a philosopher examine computer art and how it has been both accepted and rejected by the mainstream art world. In a series of essays, Margaret Boden, a philosopher and expert in artificial intelligence, and Ernest Edmonds, a pioneering and internationally recognized computer artist, grapple with key questions about the aesthetics of computer art. Other modern technologies—photography and film—have been accepted by critics as ways of doing art. Does the use of computers compromise computer art’s aesthetic credentials in ways that the use of cameras does not? Is writing a computer program equivalent to painting with a brush?

Essays by Boden identify types of computer art, describe the study of creativity in AI, and explore links between computer art and traditional views in philosophical aesthetics. Essays by Edmonds offer a practitioner’s perspective, considering, among other things, how the experience of creating computer art compares to that of traditional art making. Finally, the book presents interviews in which contemporary computer artists offer a wide range of comments on the issues raised in Boden’s and Edmonds’s essays.

中文：

书名：从手指到手指：一种人工审美

一位人工智能的先驱实践者和哲学家撰写的关于计算机艺术及其与更传统艺术的关系的文章。

在……里面从手指到手指，一位实践艺术家和一位哲学家研究了计算机艺术，以及它是如何被主流艺术界接受和拒绝的。在一系列文章中，人工智能专家、哲学家玛格丽特·博登和国际公认的开拓性计算机艺术家欧内斯特·埃德蒙兹努力解决了关于计算机艺术美学的关键问题。其他现代技术–摄影和胶片–已经被评论家们接受为艺术创作的方式。电脑的使用是否会损害电脑艺术的审美品格，而相机的使用却不会？编写电脑程序是否等同于用毛笔作画？

博登的文章确定了计算机艺术的类型，描述了人工智能中对创造力的研究，并探索了计算机艺术与哲学美学中传统观点之间的联系。埃德蒙兹的文章提供了从业者的视角，其中考虑了创作计算机艺术的体验与传统艺术制作的比较。最后，本书介绍了当代计算机艺术家对博登和埃德蒙兹的文章中提出的问题提供了广泛的评论的采访。