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Online Archives and Databases
“Creative A.I. Lab” https://creative-ai.org/
The AI Pedagogy Project https://aipedagogy.org/
Edinburg Futures Institute database https://efi.ed.ac.uk/activity-and-partners/
“Experiential AI”- Edinburg Futures Institute https://efi.ed.ac.uk/activity-and-partners/experiential-ai/
NYU “AI Now” https://ainowinstitute.org/
Sloane Lab https://www.monasloane.org/sloane-lab
Columbia Storytelling Lab http://www.digitalstorytellinglab.com/
“A Is for Another: Dictionary of AI” https://aisforanother.net/index.html
Rhizome AI https://rhizome.org/search/?q=artificial+intelligence
MIT Docubase https://docubase.mit.edu/?s=Artifical+intelligence
Indigenous AI https://www.indigenous-ai.net/
Harvard metaLab https://metalabharvard.github.io/
V2: Lab for the Unstable Media https://v2.nl/
Java Museum http://www.javamuseum.org/
Experiential AI Twitter https://twitter.com/experientialAI
AiLab Twitter https://twitter.com/_AiLab
Whitney Museum of American Art database https://whitney.org/search?q=artificial%20intelligence
Critical Commons AI archive https://criticalcommons.org/search?q=artificial+intelligence
Forensic Architecture https://forensic-architecture.org/
AI Art Gallery http://www.aiartonline.com/
21st Century Digital Art http://www.digiart21.org/
Zero1ne Project Archive https://zer01ne.zone/en/archives_category/insight/
Curious Refuge https://curiousrefuge.com/
The Waiting Room NYC https://www.thewaitingroomnyc.com/
Archival Images of AI Project & Book https://aixdesign.co/posts/archival-images-of-ai
ESRC Digital Good Network https://digitalgood.net/
Kartel AI https://www.kartel.ai/
Texts
Artificial Intelligence in the Cultural and Creative SectorsOpportunities, Challenges, and Transformations. Edited By Marta Massi, Marek Prokůpek, Alessandra Ricci, Maria Carmela Ostillio (Routledge, 2026).
Arielli, Emanuele and Manovich, Lev. “AI Aesthetics and the Anthroposcentric Myth of Creativity.” Forthcoming in Nodes and Journal of Art and Neuroscience (nodejournal.com), 2022. http://manovich.net/index.php/projects/ai-aesthetics-and-the-anthropocentric-myth-of-creativity.
Barker, Tim. “Objects and Interaction.” Digital Creativity, 22:2. 65-77, 2011.
Benjamin, Ruha. Race After Technology. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019.
Betancourt, Micahel. Force Magnifier: The Cultural Impacts of Artificial Intelligence. Wildside Press, 2020.
Betancourt, M. (2021). A Note on AI and the Ideology of Creativity. Academia Letters, Article 328.
https://doi.org/10.20935/AL328.
Broussard, Meredith. Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2018.
Crawford, Kate and Joler, Vladan. Anatomy of an AI System. link
D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Klein, Lauren. Data Feminism. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020.
Dieter Mersch, “(Un)Creative Artificial Intelligence: A Critique of ‘Artificial Art’ “
Ekbia, Hamid R. & Bardi, Bonnie. Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism. Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2017.
Eubanks, Virginia. Automating Inequality: How High Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. St. Martins Press, New York. 2018.
Goldberg, David T. “Coding Time,” Critical Times 2, no. 3 (2019): 353–69.
Hassapopoulou, Marina. “Reconfiguring Film Studies Through Software Cinema and Procedural Spectatorship.” NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, 3:2. 2014.
Hassapopoulou, Marina. Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Hicks, Mar. Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017.
Hillis, W. Daniel. The Connection Machine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985.
Houser, Kristin. “the Oscar for Best Visual Effects Goes to: AI.” Futurism. March, 2018. https://futurism.com/visual-effects-ai-arraiy
Joshi, Bhautik, Stewart, Kristin & Shapiro, David. “Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer in Come Swim.”DigiPro ’17: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Production Symposium. Article No.: 5 , 2017, pp. 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3105692.3105697
Manovich, Lev. AI Aesthetics. Strelka Press, Mocscow. 2019.
Manovich, Lev and Kratky, Andreas. Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005.
Mark C. Marino’s works
Mateas, Michael. “Expressive AI: A hybrid art and science practice.” Leonardo 34.2 (2001): 147-153.
Mateas, Michael. “Semiotic Considerations in an Artificial Intelligence-based Art Practice.” Dichtung Digital: Journal on Digital Aesthetics, 2003.
Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers (Eds.), Narrative Intelligence. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2003.
McIlwain, Charlton. Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter. Oxford University Press, 2019.
McVeigh, K. Margaret. “Making the Connection: Lev Manovich’s Texas and the Challenges of Interactive New Media Narrative.” Digital Creativity, Vol 22, 2011.
Moffitt, Evan. “Get Real” Essay on Eyebeam website. September 21st, 2023. https://eyebeam.org/get-real/
Noble, U. Sofia. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York University Press, New York. 2018.
Rees, Tobias. “Machine/Intelligence: On the Philosophical Stakes of AI Today,” Beyond the Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2020).
Robitzski, Dan. “Artificial Intelligence Is Automating Hollywood. Now, Art Can Thrive.” Futurism. July 2018. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence-automating-hollywood-art
Schleser, Max, and Susan Kerrigan. “Examining the emergence of the ‘AI eye’ and its effect on the ‘creative treatment of actuality’ in computational non-fiction.” Media Practice and Education, 1–17 (2024).
Schwartzman, Madeleine. Alive: Synthetic Cells, Feral Robots, Rebellious AI & the Design of Radical Life (Thames & Hudson, 2025).
Shaviro, Steven. “Actual Entities and Eternal Objects.” Without Criteria: Kant, Deleuze, and Aesthetics (University of Minnesota Press, 2014).
Skorburg,Joshua August, Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter and Conitzer, Vincent. “AI Methods in Bioethics,” AJOB Empirical Bioethics 11, no. 1 (2020): 37–39.
Schröter, Jens. “Artificial Intelligence and the Democratization of Art.”
Thiel, Tamiko. “The Design of the Connection Machine.” Design Issues, Vol.10, 1994.
Vensa, Victoria editor. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. University of Minnesota Press, 8th edition, 2007.
Ward, Adrian and Cox, Geoff. “How I Drew One of My Pictures: or, The Authorship of Generative Art”. online
Wong, Şerife (Sherry). AI Justice: When AI Principles Are Not Enough,” Medium, August 5, 2019.
Youngblood, Gene. “Cinema and the Code.” Leonardo. Supplemental Issue, vol. 2, 1989, pp. 27–30. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1557940.
Zarkadakis, George. In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence. Pegasus Books, New York. 2015.
Zehner, Brett. “Machines of Subjection: Notes on a Tactical Approach to Artificial Intelligence.” Machine Feeling, Vol 8:1, 2019.
Zylinska, Joanna. AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams. Open Humanities Press CIC, 2020.
Videos:
“Can AI Make a Better Video than Me?” – Reuters Context Series, featuring Marina Hassapopoulou
More bibliography on A.I. Histories: Community Bibliography from University of Cambridge
More resources presented by “In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities” conference (2021): https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/in-our-image-ai-humanities/
Exhibitions and Events (see more on the Artists & Projects page)
“Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power” Seminar 2020-2021 https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/histories-of-ai
E-flux “True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films/ March 2021 https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/376351/true-fake-troubling-the-real-in-artists-films/
“Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018” at Whitney Museum 2019 https://whitney.org/exhibitions/programmed
Exhibition on the Experiential’s collaboration with Ogilvy and IBM Watson: AI created portraits https://thexperiential.com/project/hidden-portraits/
“Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-1989” at MoMA 2018 https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3863
“Left and Right, or being who/where you are” CultureHub 2021 https://www.culturehub.org/re-fest-2021-events/left-and-right-or-being-who/where-you-are?mc_cid=b2bdd85353&mc_eid=6954e7344e
“The New Real: AI and art, the future is now” by Edinburg Futures Institute, 2021 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-new-real-ai-and-art-the-future-is-now-tickets-143824405669
2018 Sundance Panel on AI filmmaking: http://history.sundance.org/panels/1266
“IBM X Watson: Hidden Portraits” https://thexperiential.com/project/hidden-portraits/
“Technoimagination” 2019 Korea Media Arts Festival in NYC http://www.kmaf.us/
Art and Artificial Intelligence 2019 Open conference https://zkm.de/en/event/2019/05/art-and-artificial-intelligence
“Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI” de Young Museum 2020-2021. https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/uncanny-valley
“Further Experiments in Art and Technology” https://furtherexperiments.rhizome.org/
“Unfolding Intelligence: The Art and Science of Contemporary Computation” 2021 symposium at MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology(CAST) https://unfoldingai.mit.edu/
“Generative Unfoldings” curated by Nick Montfort in conjunction with MIT CAST’s symposium “Unfolding Intelligence” (2021) https://generative-unfoldings.mit.edu/
“In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities” 2021 National Humanities Center’s virtual conference and online art exhibition series https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/in-our-image-ai-humanities/
NYU and University of Cambridge “Expressive AI Symposium” https://vimeo.com/user5490513
“Digital Consortium: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence”, an archive of lecture series organized by DigitalFutures.
“The Philip K Dick Film Festival 2021”- 2 day science fiction film festival with selected VR exhibition and screenplay competition in memory of Philip K Dick. https://www.thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com/
“Seeing with No Eyes: Video & AI”, an online screening program of videos produced with AI technologies, investigating the “visual and narrative possibilities through the hybrid teamwork of human and machine”. Organized by Yiran Xu and presented by Microscope Gallery.
“Expressive Intelligence: AI, Games and New Media”, a recorded lecture by Michael Mateas on his research and practice on “Expressive AI”, a process that occurs when AI research and art converge. Lecture at the Standford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar.
“The Robotic Art Competition (ROBOTART)”, an annual competition program for students and professionals involved in robotics, machine learning and image processing that ran from 2016 to 2019.
“Artists & Robots Exposition” (2018) at the Grand Palais. An exhibition of forty artists who experiment with the new AI technology to question the role of art and artists.
“AI Anarchies” (2022), a transdisciplinary event featuring global communities of artists, scholars, cultural producers and cultural hackers, technologists, and activists’ participatory discussions, curated screenings and performances on the topic of AI ethics. The event attempted to “create new modes of feeling, thinking and relating to the topic of AI Ethics.”
“Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen” (Dec. 2021-May 2022) at MoMI. An exhibition presenting a variety of media that demonstrate the instability of on-screen truths, and placing them in a historical continuum from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries.
Expressive AI 