a Myk Eff eBook

Concept Craft: a Poetics of AI Art presents a comprehensive framework for understanding and appreciating digital art produced by generative AI platforms. The book weaves together ideas from a variety of thinkers including:

• Aristotle’s Poetics and the development of modern aesthetics with Baumgarten’s Aesthetica
• Hegel’s concept of art as material thinking
• Heidegger’s thinking of poesis and language
• Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy of the concept and the assemblage
• Eleanor Rosch’s theories of concept formation, fuzzy logic and family resemblances
• Hermeneutic slippage, defamiliarization and Derrida’s concept of archewriting
• A discussion of prompt writing and AI image generation as a new kind of conceptual art

Practicing AI artists and hobbyists or anyone who is just curious about these new platforms and technologies will find a wide-ranging discussion of AI art in connection to thousands of years of intellectual history and contemporary contexts.