Future Art

Computers paint like Rembrandt, compose like Bach, write novels and poems. If it were up to digital corporations, this would be just the beginning. Artificial creativity is the new key objective: Machines are destined to become artists, as autonomous and gifted as people.

In his essay, Hanno Rauterberg describes the vigour with which this future art is being developed. And he ponders the consequences of the imminent epochal change: How is humanity’s self-image going to change? And what does it say about a society when it doesn’t merely expect logic from computers but also metaphysics, truth and transcendency? Will algorithms become the new creative deities – and thus make politics redundant?

»... [a] knowledgeable curator who takes his readers on a walk through a network that functions as a museum of itself. [...] It is refreshing that Rauterberg does not see the developments of digital art as disruptive moments of a Schumpeterian nature, but places them in the larger context of historical strategies of the avant-gardes.« Günter Hack, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

» ... clever and, as always, exceptionally researched.« kulturbuchtipps.de on Wie frei ist die Kunst?