My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence

Mark Amerika

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781503631700, 9781503631076
• eBook ISBN: 9781503631717
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Art Theory & Criticism
• Index: Social Sciences

A series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum.

Is it possible that creative artists have more in common with machines than we might think?

Employing an improvisational call-and-response writing performance coauthored with an AI text generator, remix artist and scholar Mark Amerika, interrogates how his own "psychic automatism" is itself a nonhuman function strategically designed to reveal the poetic attributes of programmable worlds still unimagined. Through a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum, Amerika critically reflects on whether creativity itself is, at root, a nonhuman information behavior that emerges from an onto-operational presence experiencing an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility. Amerika engages with his cyberpunk imagination to simultaneously embrace and problematize human-machine collaborations. He draws from jazz performance, beatnik poetry, Buddhist thought, and surrealism to suggest that his own artificial creative intelligence operates as a finely tuned remix engine continuously training itself to build on the history of avant-garde art and writing.

Playful and provocative, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence flips the script on contemporary AI research that attempts to build systems that perform more like humans, instead self-reflexively making a very nontraditional argument about AI's impact on society and its relationship to the cosmos.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Series Page
• Contents
• 1. Onto-Operational Presence Artificial Creative Intelligence as Meta Remix Engine
• 2. Pure Psychic Automatism, Lingual Spontaneity, and the Hybrid Mind
• 3. An Apparition of an Appearance The Language Artist as Language Model
• 4. Being Nonhuman A Cosmotechnical Persona
• 5. The Digital Fiction-Making Process Speculative Praxis and Techno-Utopian Agency
• 6. Beyond Thought A Dialogue of Metamediumystic Entanglements
• Postscript Sublime Buddha Machines: Interdependent Consciousness and the Single Vehicle
• Acknowledgments
• Series List