The emergence of Artificial Intelligence generated artworks has led to an extensive discussion on the authenticity of its artistic qualities. Instead of making judgements from traditional subjectivist aesthetic theories, this essay approaches AI-art from an existentialist perspective, treating art as a form of existence and evaluating the core relationship between human beings and technology.

 

In part one, major influential subjectivist definitions of art will be applied to AI artworks, revealing their logical incoherence and anthropocentric assumptions. Part two transcends these theories, rejecting a stagnant definition of both artists and artworks, and refutes the instrumentalist and technological determinism theories of human-machine relationships as variants of anthropocentrism. Finally, using process philosophy, post humanism theories, and phenomenology, part three will argue that art should be perceived as a relational, processual activity between these two dynamic beings, before reflecting on the societal implications of this new relationship. Through this structure, this essay aims to argue that art, as a co-created process, is grounded not only on a strong philosophical foundation but can be practically implemented in reality.

 

Key words: AI Art; Subjectivism; Instrumentalism; Technological determinism; Anthropocentrism; Coupling relation