Isabelle Levent

With so much focus on creation, few systems consider revision. Revision—this is where the average writer gets the most outside help.

“Our business has never been about the ease of creating imagery or the resulting volume. It is about connecting and cutting through.”

In many instances, to say that some technologies are inherently political is to say that certain widely accepted reasons of practical necessity–especially the need to maintain critical technological systems as smoothly working entities–have tended to eclipse other sorts of moral and political reasoning.

Our intuitive moral understanding of actors and transgressions may be at odds with the inherent complexity of AI systems.

In particular, anthropomorphizing the AI system mitigates the responsibility to the artist, while bolstering the responsibility of the technologist. Critically, this suggests that the responsibility that will be allocated to individuals in the creation of AI art will be dependent on the choice of language and framing used to discuss it

The Lab’s primary focus is on the ways in which artists and designers are adopting, adapting and remaking AI processes, building their own datasets and reaching into the ‘grey box’ of AI technologies.