Extended Aesthetics Art and Artificial I

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Volume 13, 2021
Edited by Vítor Moura and Connell Vaughan
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Vítor Moura (University of Minho, Guimarães)
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Pauline von Bonsdorff (University of Jyväskylä)
Daniel Martine Feige (Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts)
Tereza Hadravová (Charles University, Prague)
Regina-Nino Mion (Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn)
Francisca Pérez Carreño (University of Murcia)
Karen Simecek (University of Warwick)
Elena Tavani (University of Naples)
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Proceedings of the
European Society for Aesthetics
Volume 13, 2021
Edited by Vítor Moura and Connell Vaughan
Table of Contents
Emanuele Arielli Extended Aesthetics: Art and Artificial Intelligence ..... 1
Alessandro Bertinetto The Aesthetic Paradox of Artistic Improvisation

(and its Solution) .................................................................................. 14
Vanessa Brassey The Pictorial Narrator .................................................. 29
Remei Capdevila-Werning and Sanna Lehtinen A First Approach to

Intergenerational Aesthetics: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Examples,
and Future Research Avenues................................................................ 43
Yi Ding A Brief History of the Reception of Laocoon in China: From the

Perspective of the “poetical picture” .................................................... 59
Rosa María Fernández García Hermeneutic Truth in Contemporary

Opera ........................................................................................................... 69
Jèssica Jacques Pi On Deconstruction and Construction in Picasso’s Las

Meninas: Political Reasons for Death Exorcisms in the 1957 Barcelona
Suite ...................................................................................................... 90
Monika Jovanović Beyond Internalism / Externalism Dispute on Aesthetic

Experience: A Return to Kant ............................................................. 100
Darío Loja A Brief Insight into the Musical Role of Non-Tonal Aspects.112
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Washington Morales Maciel Literary Cognitive Benefits as Undecidable
Mental Models .................................................................................... 126
Salvador Rubio Marco Novels and Moral Knowledge: Henry James

Evaluating Guy de Maupassant .......................................................... 139
Philip Mills Viral Poetics in Manuel Joseph’s Baisetioles ..................... 148
Mojca Puncer Virus as Metaphor: The Art World Under Pandemia .... 161
Karel Stibral Johann Georg Sulzer – A Forgotten Father of Enviornemtal

Aestehtics ............................................................................................. 174
Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk about

Art ........................................................................................................ 190
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Extended Aesthetics: Art and Artificial Intelligence
Emanuele Arielli 1
IUAV University of Venice
ABSTRACT. In this paper 2, I will argue that developments in machine learning and
artificial intelligence (AI) applied to aesthetics have relevant implications for
philosophical aesthetics, in particular concerning the discussions about the nature of
creativity and authorship. The automatic generation of aesthetic artifacts, as well as
the development of software increasingly supporting the work of artists and
designers, call into question the uniqueness of individual creativity and artistic
imagination in an unprecedented way. Moreover, in a scenario in which formal
properties of artifacts seem to be easily replicable by machines, the debate on the
relationship between aesthetics and the nature of art seems also revitalized. Overall,
diverging positions on this issue oscillate between the view of the machine as an
Other competing with human capabilities, and, on the contrary, an interpretation of
technology as an extension of human potentialities through the externalization of
mental processes. AI and machine learning would be in this sense a direct practical
manifestation of an extended aesthetic mind, in which traditional cognitive limits of
the biological mind can be overcome also in areas related to aesthetic creation.
1. Introduction
Since the beginning of the 21st century, computation, data analysis, and artificial intelligence
have gradually entered the aesthetic realm. We see this first in what we could call consumer
aesthetics, where algorithms are increasingly able to predict what we like and recommend in
accordance with our taste, like in music streaming services such as Spotify, or video platforms
1
Email: arielli@iuav.it.
2
Parts of this contribution anticipate an in-depth investigation of the relationship between computation and
aesthetics with the provisional title Artificial Aesthetics (forthcoming), by Lev Manovich and Emanuele Arielli.

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Proceedings of the

European Society for Aesthetics

Volume 13, 2021

Edited by Vítor Moura and Connell Vaughan

Volume 13, 2021

Edited by Vítor Moura and Connell Vaughan

Emanuele Arielli Extended Aesthetics: Art and Artificial Intelligence ..... 1

Alessandro Bertinetto The Aesthetic Paradox of Artistic Improvisation

Vanessa Brassey The Pictorial Narrator .................................................. 29

Remei Capdevila-Werning and Sanna Lehtinen A First Approach to

Yi Ding A Brief History of the Reception of Laocoon in China: From the

Rosa María Fernández García Hermeneutic Truth in Contemporary

Jèssica Jacques Pi On Deconstruction and Construction in Picasso’s Las

Monika Jovanović Beyond Internalism / Externalism Dispute on Aesthetic

Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, vol. 13, 2021

Salvador Rubio Marco Novels and Moral Knowledge: Henry James

Philip Mills Viral Poetics in Manuel Joseph’s Baisetioles ..................... 148

Karel Stibral Johann Georg Sulzer – A Forgotten Father of Enviornemtal

Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk about

Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, vol. 13, 2021

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