Glitching the 'Machine Artist'

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a blueprint for critical resistance and aesthetic defiance in the face of digital capitalism and a rising new age  - Laila Shereen Sakr/ VJ Um Amel</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>           Fear of the 'machine artist' reflects a deep cultural anxiety about industrialization shaped by unresolved conflicts over automation and its potential to supplant human artists. Automated machinery represents both a technical development and a social paradigm that redefines labor authorship and creativity itself.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Glitching the 'Machine Artist'</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is neither utopian nor dystopian. It offers the first comprehensive theory connecting Glitch Art to its industrial foundations. By blending analysis theory and criticism this book shows how debates over AI continue a centuries-long negotiation between human agency and automation. It links these generative technologies to the assembly line and industrialization while exploring their aesthetic influence on art. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By analyzing how photography functioned as the original 'machine artist' this book explains why current fears about AI-generated art echo historical anxieties about objectivity originality and human agency. Glitch Art offers a unique vehicle to examine these entanglements. From eighteenth-century Romanticism through to analogue and digital media artists have responded to technological innovation in three distinct ways: either by emphasizing the artist's handicraft or in a metaphysical refusal of machinery or in a formalist embrace of medium-specific 'purity.' The contemporary challenge is to develop strategies to understand critique and defy the power of technological change.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As AI transforms our world the future of human agency is in question. The problem for artists technologists and everyone concerned with human creativity lies with the links between aesthetics innovation and the role of the artist-challenging assumptions about expression versus randomness originality versus reproduction and human versus machine. Acknowledging these dynamics opens up the possibility for radical change beyond merely asserting human agency or surrendering to technological determinism.</span></p>