Resumen de Artificial Aesthetics as Tulpas: regarding narratives as thoughtforms
Artificial aesthetic artifacts are generated by computational systems that more than reproducing or simulating classicmedia forms, express their computational nature in contexts of very high ‘process intensity’. Artificial aesthetics isframed by the perception of the artifacts’ procedural nature, which involves more than the sensorial modalities andcognitive processes associated with classic aesthetics, requiring the deployment of a procedural modality for acybernetic, and ergodic, aesthetic experience. This experience is highly performative, not just because of the artifacts’nature but also because we, as interpreters, are responsible for developing elaborate processes of translation thatadd or create meaning from the outputs they produce. These effusions are their instantiations; they are outputs ofimmaterial processes. Fragile and transient at their core, they are volatile and unpredictable, characteristics fromwhere their richness stems. They fundamentally counter traditional definitions of media and differ from the artifactsthemselves, which can often be finitely described through code, algorithms, or other methods. Artificial aestheticartifacts can be regarded as continuous processes from where meaning is inferred and that need to be describedbeyond the boundaries of classic aesthetics. It therefore becomes fundamental to develop a new understandingof how aesthetic experience and narratives are created within these artifacts, in their interfaces and especially inhuman cognition. This paper proposes a reframing of this question, in search for a computational and cognitiveperspective on the creation of meaning and artificial aesthetics.
