Dance, audiovisual and artificial intelligence: an algorithmic hydra boiling on the web

Abstract

This article explores the emergence of generative image-creation models based on artificial intelligence (AI), as well as the creation of dance movements within such images, whose physical deforming changes in digital corporeal matter affect its “normal” state or appearance as an inherent part of its manifestation. Likewise, it emphasizes the problems raised around the ethical aspects involved in the training processes of these systems. Two central points emerge in this analysis: the risks that generative models may catalyze a devaluation of human creativity across various dimensions and that their widespread use promotes an increasingly derivative and inauthentic visual culture. It also explores certain paths of visual creation through the specific case of the artist Francis Bacon, addresses the ethical controversy surrounding the work of the artist Bruno Bresani, and focuses on the critical thematization of artificial intelligence. Finally, the relationship between art and AI is situated not so much in the  exploration of AI’s creative capacity, but rather in a poetic and critical inquiry into its effects on the production of subjectivity.