My Book KI-KUNST (AI ART)

Out now!

As many of you might know, I wrote a book about AI art and creativity. Published by Wagenbach Verlag in their Series Digitale Bildkulturen, it explores the coming Age of Human-Machine Collaboration.

Merzmensch. Ki-Kunst (Digitale Bildkulturen). 
Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach K; 2023., ISBN 978-3-8031-3735-7

Publisher about my book:

More than just hype: AI art is changing visual worlds far beyond art. Merzmensch explains the most important programs — and looks at the consequences.

What sounded like science fiction just a few years ago has now become reality: Artificial intelligence allows images to be created digitally in any style. You specify in words what you want to see and are immediately presented with suggestions. This is causing unrest in some industries and a sense of optimism in others.

But is something new really being created here, or is it just recycling, or plagiarizing, as it were? Merzmensch presents the most important programs and exemplary works of AI art with their qualities and problems and undertakes outlooks on further developments.

Here is the structure of my book:

1. The term KI-Art
2. Technology
   Generative Art — Prehistory
   Computer Vision, Deep Dream
   GANs…