There Should Be No AI Art
Gary Hall

Summary

Gary Hall's provocatively titled Computer Arts Society talk argues that the question is not whether AI can make art, but how AI forces us to rethink authorship, creativity and the institutions that frame them. Drawing on Dennis Tenen's 'Literary Theory for Robots' and theorists such as Stiegler, Derrida and Haraway, he contends that all human creation is already hybrid and collaborative, shaped by technologies, infrastructures and non-human agents. The title also invokes early CAS figures Gustav Metzger and Frieder Nake, who challenged the art market and the separation of 'computer art' from art in general. Hall connects AI art to broader inequalities in funding, publishing and copyright, proposing that radically redistributing resources and experimenting with open, commons-based models could foster more diverse cultural production. Rather than defending a pure human artist against machines, he calls for new ways of thinking, writing and publishing that interrupt the familiar habits of liberal humanism and the art establishment.

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