Towards a Computationalist Approach to Art-making
摘要
In Chap. 3 , we first distinguished between the philosophy of art (concerned with the nature of art, various theories of art, and the relationship between the artist and the artwork) and aesthetics (concerned with characteristics of beauty and the lack thereof). We then focused on a subset of concerns in the philosophy of art: the activity of art-making and artworks as its characteristic artifacts. We effected the informational turn in the philosophy of art and proceeded to characterize an information-theoretic philosophy of art in terms of a set of related hypotheses about art-making, artifacts, and works of art (H1–H3). In particular, H3 reveals the underlying digital nature of art-making activity: how artifacts are generated and whether or not they come to be regarded or treated as works of art (‘hits’) depend ultimately on answers to yes-no questions (‘bits’).