Artificial Intelligence and Art confluences and conjunctions may not rely only on a serendipity process, but on a deeply intentional Art, Science, Technology and Society creative research system. Meta, multi and/or interdisciplinary creative processes; robot or human artistic authorship; machine learning; computer art; AI art performances; aesthetics; art market; interactivity or audience experience are some of the issues that AI+A will cover during LuxLogAI 2018 in order to provide a wide perspective of AI impact in Art and vice versa.
Two round-tables, two artist-in-conversation, an art performance, a talk and an art exhibition with a downloable book-catalogue online are open to conference participants.
Monday, September 17 – Friday, September 21. Rooms MSA 3.170 and 3.180.
This is tentative information and subject to change!
Abstract:Since the turn of the millennium, investing in fine art has garnered increasing interest among alternative asset investors. Fuelled by a strong rise in global wealth and the search for yield in an environment of low interest rates and stock returns, the global art market has expanded exponentially in recent decades — auction sales have grown from $43 million in 1970 to $9.3 billion in 2015. The role of art in investments is still a hotly debated topic among practitioners and academics. However, the most recent research in the field of art-finance indicates that returns have been over-exaggerated. The general finding is that investors should buy paintings if they like looking at them, but not to make money. They can hope that their children will sell one or more of them later for a gain — but paintings are primarily aesthetic investments, not financial ones.
Topic: « Paraeconomies »
Details: It is the nature of an artistic practice that determines its economies. Art or visual art materializes as a work of art and its economy is articulated by the art market. Invisual practices, which are materialized otherwise than as works of art, generate their own economies, independently from the art market and sometimes of the art sector itself. Paraeconomies assert themselves as parallel economies to the art market, and even if they remain a minority today, they demonstrate that the art market is not an absolute, unique and indispensable economic model for art. The paraeconomies are both economic solutions necessary to the invisual art practices but also a questioning of the monopoly of the art market itself.Related quotes::
“The goal of the art market has been to bring art to the market – and it worked!”
“The art market converted artists into subcontractor.”