The Transition of the Image: From Renaissance Perspective to Generative AI
How has the use and the perception of the image changed across history? If during the Renaissance the painting was understood as a window to the world, today in 2025 we are surrounded by generative images that no longer depend on an external referent but on algorithms and data sets. Between those two extremes, the […]
Machine Visions, Hybrid Painting, and the Life of Images: Reading Joanna Zylinska
Introduction Joanna Zylinska’s AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams (2020) offers a sharp and critical entry point into understanding how artificial intelligence reshapes not only the production of images but also our perception of them. Far from the usual binary debate about whether machines can be “creative,” Zylinska reframes the conversation to ask what […]