University of Music and Theatre Munich

Artists on a Decade of AI Evolution: An Interview Study of Affordances, Culture, and Artistic Practice with Machine Learning

In the mid-2010s, media artists began developing practices using machine learning (ML) as an artistic medium. Since 2022, the rise of large generative models, the mainstreaming of AI as consumer products, and intensifying ethical disputes have reconfigured the conditions of their artistic practice. This paper aims to…