New Publication from ArtEZ Press: Algorithmic Imaginations: Critical Reflections on AI in Art and Design Practice

In Algorithmic Imaginations: Critical Reflections on AI in Art and Design Practice, art and design are used as a lens to explore the complex realities of artificial intelligence. The book focuses on a central question: how can artists and designers play an active, critical role in understanding and shaping both the possibilities and the limits of machine learning?

Algorithmic Imaginations examines how AI relates to human imagination, creativity, and embodiment, as well as social inequality, other forms of life, and ecology. Rather than succumbing to hype or mystification, the book focuses on concrete experiences, perspectives, and practices within art and design.

The publication brings together written contributions, conversations, and visual essays, inviting students, makers, and researchers to critically examine the role of AI in their own practice. How do different generations of makers relate to this technology? What questions and forms of imagination are needed to envision future relationships with AI?

The book is edited by Marijke Goeting and Maaike van Neck, both affiliated with the Graphic Design program at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem. The design is by Maaike van Neck, in collaboration with Marijke Goeting and Helena Hesselink.

Contributions come from artists and designers: Siri Beerends, Vera van der Burg, Sofia Crespo, Marijke Goeting, Maaike van Neck, Soyun Park, Anna Ridler, Pilar Rosado, Nikola Scheibe, Casper Schipper, Philipp Schmitt, Lukas Völp, and Sabine Winters.

In addition, students from the Graphic Design program at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, and the Kwaliteitsgelden program contributed: Irem Adiguzel, Isaac van den Aker, Tabitha Anderton, Leroy Berger, Mare de Boer, Carina Calinici, Soyoon Cha, Clara Chirila-Rus, Yunjin Choi, Jaemin Chung, Viktor Dimitrov, Aglaya Drobysheva, Dominique Dufey, Maroua Gaddur, Georges Engelhard, Gilles Goosen, Niels Gräber, Lize van der Gulden, Joëlle de Jong, Robin Opheij, Niels Pauls, Orkan Kaan Pişkin, Han-Gyeol Kim, Bálint Korka, Seungju Lee, Danae Lankhorst, Sole Lim, Jona Meijer, Roxana Neacsu, Masha Nikiforova, Amber Zara van den Pangaard, Varvara Pekhota, Jonas Riemersma, Misha van Rooij, Alexi Rozhkova, Carla Sanfratello Marco, Dide Schuit, Sep van der Spiegel, Philipp Steinkellner, Asha Victoria, Leonie Wessling, Shiri Wijnhoven, Lisa Ziebermayr, and Lucas Zuidema.

Algorithmic Imaginations is published in English and is visually distinctive through its combination of text and image. It invites readers to reflect on their own work and practice in relation to the questions raised in the book.