Ai Aesthetics - Ai-Generated Images Between Artistics and Aisthetics

This volume investigates the intersection of generative AI and media aesthetics from an interdisciplinary perspective. It will appeal to scholars and students within media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, philosophy, art history, visual culture studies, digital humanities, and critical AI studies.

List of contents

1. Introduction: AI Aesthetics
2. AI Horseplay: Postdigital Aesthetics in AI-Generated Images
3. Aesthetic Protocols of Popular AI Art
4. The Aesthetics of Promise: Tech-Failures and Tech-Demonstrations of Generative AI
5. Affective Realism: Reimagining Photography with the Google Pixel 9
6. Aesthetics and Rhetorics of AI Anthropomorphization: The Eliza Effect vs. the Character Effect
Index

About the author

Jan-Noël Thon is Professor and Chair of Media Studies and Media Education at Osnabrück University, Germany.
Lukas R.A. Wilde is Professor of Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.

Product details

• Authors: Jan-Noel (Osnabruck University Thon
• Assisted by: Jan-Noël Thon (Editor), Lukas R.A. Wilde (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2025
• EAN: 9781041148456
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4114845-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Artificial Intelligence, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Graphical & digital media applications, Graphical and digital media applications, The arts: general topics, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / Generative AI