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Cybernetic subjectivities on a loop: From video feedback to generative AI

Author(s): Boutet de Monvel, Violaine
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This paper raises an aesthetic bridge between pioneer video art and current machine learning art through the prism of instant feedback. It reinstates the former’s real-time processual practices as a pertinent origin to reflect on the resolutely looped construction of cybernetic subjectivities. Given the latest developments of artificial intelligence, it infers that these now include technological agency. The article proceeds to compare the room left for human mastery in the recursive operations of both closed-circuit video setups and generative AI models. Taking into account their synthetic power, it ultimately proposes two general definitions of the artist’s creative position within today’s networked landscape.


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Boutet de Monvel, Violaine: Cybernetic subjectivities on a loop: From video feedback to generative AI. In: NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 12 (2023), Nr. 2, S. 103-126. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21716.
@ARTICLE{Boutet de Monvel2023,
 author = {Boutet de Monvel, Violaine},
 title = {Cybernetic subjectivities on a loop: From video feedback to generative AI},
 year = 2023,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21716}",
 volume = 12,
 address = {Marburg},
 journal = {NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 2,
 pages = {103--126},
}
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