Transformation of aesthetic values in algorithmic aesthetics

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The development of intelligent systems has given prominence to one of the areas of contemporary non-classical aesthetics: algorithmic aesthetics. Mathematical measurements embedded in algorithms try to find the individual characteristics of personal aesthetic values. Algorithms created for specific tasks collect a large amount of data and induce generally significant values that begin to form content, for instance, in TV series, music, online education. The difference between the universal human predicament and the influence of algorithms on culture lies in the fact that the latter do not have limitations. Such software algorithms are already perceived objectively and have their own aesthetic value. The article examines how the transformation of aesthetic values occurs in algorithmic aesthetics. These values are algorithmic in nature and are associated not only with artistic values, but also create new aesthetic values. The following aesthetic values can be distinguished in algorithmic aesthetics: beauty (proportionality, integrity and harmony), aestheticization of digital code, hallucination in digital code, self-design, affect, algorithmic interactivity, algorithmic spectacle. This transformation is also associated with the transition from an emotional assessment of beauty to intellectual algorithmic interactivity and spectacularity.

Keywords

• algorithmic aesthetics
• algorithm
• aesthetic values
• aesthetic assessment
• beauty
• affect
• self-design
• digital code
• algorithmic interactivity
• algorithmic spectacle
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