@article{ART003263101},
author={Ji-Soo Seo},
title={The Poetics of Artificial Artifacts: Reading Sasha Stiles as an Activist Archivist of Generative Art},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2025},
volume={76},
pages={206-233}
TY - JOUR
AU - Ji-Soo Seo
TI - The Poetics of Artificial Artifacts: Reading Sasha Stiles as an Activist Archivist of Generative Art
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2025
VL - 76
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 206
EP - 233
SN - 1229-0246
AB - Generative poetry, which presupposes artificial intelligence as the subject of creation, has been studied mainly from the perspectives of “authorship,” “literariness,” and “creativity” amid debates over the boundaries between art and non-art. In this context, the generative poems Four Core Texts and Cursive Binary by Sasha Stiles have been interpreted as instances of co-authorship that produce polyphonic voices across “species” by employing AI models as a creative methodology. In these works, “generation” is not confined to a post-human sensibility grounded merely in the interactive writing between humans and non-humans. Rather, “generation” functions as a practical act of excavating and arranging informational units that are sedimented in technological media. Building on this awareness of the issue, this paper examines the archival characteristics of generative poetry as manifested in Four Core Texts and Cursive Binary, focusing on media archaeologist Wolfgang Ernst’s concept of the “archive.” This study understands Stiles’ “poetry writing” as an archival practice and aims to explore its potential as a form of historical writing. In particular, this paper regards “generation” not as subordinate to the category of AI-mediated creative methodology, but as a historian’s genealogical engagement with informational units embedded in the depths of technological media, thus reinterpreting Stiles’ mode of writing not as a site of co-evolution, but as the practice of an archivist.
KW - AI creativity;Archive;Archivist;Generative Poetry;Media Archaeology;Sasha Stiles;Wolfgang Ernst
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Ji-Soo Seo. (2025). The Poetics of Artificial Artifacts: Reading Sasha Stiles as an Activist Archivist of Generative Art. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 76, 206-233.
Ji-Soo Seo. 2025, "The Poetics of Artificial Artifacts: Reading Sasha Stiles as an Activist Archivist of Generative Art", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.76, pp.206-233.
Ji-Soo Seo "The Poetics of Artificial Artifacts: Reading Sasha Stiles as an Activist Archivist of Generative Art" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 76 pp.206-233 (2025) : 206.
Ji-Soo Seo. The Poetics of Artificial Artifacts: Reading Sasha Stiles as an Activist Archivist of Generative Art. 2025; 76 206-233.
Ji-Soo Seo. "The Poetics of Artificial Artifacts: Reading Sasha Stiles as an Activist Archivist of Generative Art" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 76(2025) : 206-233.
Ji-Soo Seo. The Poetics of Artificial Artifacts: Reading Sasha Stiles as an Activist Archivist of Generative Art. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 76, 206-233.
Ji-Soo Seo. The Poetics of Artificial Artifacts: Reading Sasha Stiles as an Activist Archivist of Generative Art. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2025; 76 206-233.
Ji-Soo Seo. The Poetics of Artificial Artifacts: Reading Sasha Stiles as an Activist Archivist of Generative Art. 2025; 76 206-233.
Ji-Soo Seo. "The Poetics of Artificial Artifacts: Reading Sasha Stiles as an Activist Archivist of Generative Art" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 76(2025) : 206-233.
