@article{ART003350962},
author={HyunJu Yu},
title={Reconstructing the Common World: Post-Nature and AI-Based Ecological Art from an ANT Perspective},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2026},
number={59},
pages={7-29}
TY - JOUR
AU - HyunJu Yu
TI - Reconstructing the Common World: Post-Nature and AI-Based Ecological Art from an ANT Perspective
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 59
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 7
EP - 29
SN - 1598-7728
AB - This study examines the relationship between post-nature and AI-based ecological art in order to explore the possibility of a common world shared by humans and nonhumans in the new climatic regime. Drawing on Bruno Latour’s Actor–Network Theory (ANT), it reconceptualizes nature not as an external object but as an active agent in socio-material networks, and defines post-nature as the reconfigured condition of nature in the Anthropocene. As case studies, the paper analyzes Anna Ridler’s work, which connects seventeenth-century tulip speculation with contemporary data-driven image production, and the AI-based ecological artwork Sensorium Arc. Ridler’s work demonstrates how the financialization of nature participates in the formation of post-nature through strategies of capital accumulation. Sensorium Arc, inheriting the ecological narrative practice of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, transforms environmental data into sensory and poetic discourse using artificial intelligence while making visible and reconfiguring relationships between human and nonhuman actors. The study argues that the common world should be understood not as a unified totality but as a multilayered process emerging from heterogeneous networks of actors. Ultimately, AI-based ecological art reveals otherwise imperceptible transformations of the Anthropocene and suggests the possibility of contemporary artistic practices that seek to aesthetically reconstruct an ecological common world through the complex networks of humans, nature, and technology.
KW - The Common World;Bruno Latour;Sensorium Arc;Anna Ridler;AI-based ecological art;Financialization of Nature;Post-nature;Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison;ANT
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HyunJu Yu. (2026). Reconstructing the Common World: Post-Nature and AI-Based Ecological Art from an ANT Perspective. Journal of History of Modern Art, 59, 7-29.
HyunJu Yu. 2026, "Reconstructing the Common World: Post-Nature and AI-Based Ecological Art from an ANT Perspective", Journal of History of Modern Art, no.59, pp.7-29.
HyunJu Yu "Reconstructing the Common World: Post-Nature and AI-Based Ecological Art from an ANT Perspective" Journal of History of Modern Art 59 pp.7-29 (2026) : 7.
HyunJu Yu. Reconstructing the Common World: Post-Nature and AI-Based Ecological Art from an ANT Perspective. 2026; 59 : 7-29.
HyunJu Yu. "Reconstructing the Common World: Post-Nature and AI-Based Ecological Art from an ANT Perspective" Journal of History of Modern Art no.59(2026) : 7-29.
HyunJu Yu. Reconstructing the Common World: Post-Nature and AI-Based Ecological Art from an ANT Perspective. Journal of History of Modern Art, 59, 7-29.
HyunJu Yu. Reconstructing the Common World: Post-Nature and AI-Based Ecological Art from an ANT Perspective. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2026; 59 7-29.
HyunJu Yu. Reconstructing the Common World: Post-Nature and AI-Based Ecological Art from an ANT Perspective. 2026; 59 : 7-29.
HyunJu Yu. "Reconstructing the Common World: Post-Nature and AI-Based Ecological Art from an ANT Perspective" Journal of History of Modern Art no.59(2026) : 7-29.
