ABSTRACT
The development of artificial intelligence since the 1950s and its recent popularization and industrialization through the development of deep learning have challenged and transformed the relationship between artists and their work. The advancements in AI have further opened up the possibility of new expressive processes that can be deployed in real time, processes that share some properties of living systems (such as the brain). For example, artificial intelligence has supported the emergence of a range of radically new art forms that stage robotic performers behaving in real time. This pace of transformation constantly forces practitioners and audiences to rethink their definitions of art and creation, not only through new art forms made possible by AI but also through new practices and relationships established between the creator, the artwork, and its audience. Reflecting on my own artistic practice with robots as well as the practices of other artists, I explore new ways of conceptualizing the relationships that emerge between humans and machine performers during the creative process and beyond. I embed this reflection within new materialist frameworks that decenter creation from the human artist, challenging normative conceptions of creativity in the field of computational creativity and instead considering creativity not so much as a property of things but as a process distinguished by how different agencies and materials interrelate.
