The World Through AI, Exploring Latent Spaces

In latent spaces of immense mathematical matrices, artificial neural networks understand the world as a code and begin to learn by themselves to produce images and sounds, to write, to translate, to speak. The World Through AI: this book is a cornerstone of the intellectual edifice that examines these new tools that make it possible to rethink and renew the processes of creation while shedding light on the way in which machines see and inhabit the world. The book unveils the works—some of them previously unpublished—of artists from the French and international scene who have approached new AI technologies from different perspectives: Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler, Fabien Giraud, Agnieszka Kurant, Christian Marclay, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl…