Customer Review by Dr David Gamez
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By Amazon Customer on March 24, 2016
Kasda's Conscious Eye is an engrossing discussion of the move towards cognitive content in art. Kontos 'needles' key paragraphs of Kasda's text with discussions of contemporary work in artificial intelligence.
Well worth a read if you want to find out more about art, artificial intelligence and the relationship between them.
Well worth a read if you want to find out more about art, artificial intelligence and the relationship between them.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROFESSOR JOHN KONTOS NEEDLES POLY KASDA'S CONSCIOUS EYE.
Excerpt from THE PREFACE
Excerpt from THE PREFACE
The present book is the result of a joint project of Artificial Intelligence Prof. John Kontos and international artist and author Poly Kasda. It offers a guide to recent scientific and technological literature for a number of topics mentioned in Kasda's older book The Conscious Eye (Aigokeros ed. Athens 1988). The present book could be useful for students in the fields of A. I., Art and Psychology.
Kasda's book, subtitled Perception-Art-Informatics was based on her insight into the introspective state of mind of 20thc. artists as they shifted their attention from the object of art to the function of their own mind. Her thesis was partly supported by references to the then rising technology of A. I. as a tool of introspection.
In the present book, Prof. John Kontos who had written an introductory note to the first edition of The Conscious Eye is rejuvenating this old, but still young text, by lifting it with a set of 'needlings'; injections that connect it with recent studies in the field of A.I. and particularly of Machine Consciousness; a technology inspired by human consciousness and introspection leading to the implementation of what he calls "autoendoscopic "systems..Kontos' Needles are gathered in part A and an English adaptation of Poly Kasda's The Conscious Eye is in part B.
CONTENTS:
Preface and Introduction by John Kontos
Twixt the cup and the lip. Introduction by
Poly Kasda
Part A Needles by John Kontos
1. Artificial Intelligence 2. The Turing
Test 3. Introspection,"Machine Consciousness" and
"Autoendoscopic Systems" 4. Gestalt 5. Conceptual Maps 6. The Chair
7. Artificial Vision in Technology and Art
8. Sartre's La Nausee 9. Tinkering 10.Metaphor 11.Metacognitive Instruction 12.
Creativity 13. Artificial or Computational Creativity 14. Computational Scientific
Discovery and Innovation
15.Computational Creativity in Poetry, Art
and Music 16. Automatic Analysis of Diegesis 17. Automatic Synthesis of
Diegesis
Part B The Conscious Eye by Poly Kasda
Twixt the lip and the cup epilogue by Poly Kasda
Twixt the lip and the cup epilogue by Poly Kasda
Joint Epilogue by Poly Kasda and John Kontos
CV of P. Kasda and CV of J. Kontos What others say:
“Kontos joined forces with Poly Kasda, an artist who studied “the
self-combustive frenzy of 20th century art.” Her 1985 booklet, “The Conscious
Eye,” foresaw developments in artificial intelligence. Kasda noticed painters
in the twentieth century were obsessed with introspection: paying more
attention to the workings of their minds than the products of their art.
Introspection was also in the background of the rising computer programs in
artificial intelligence. So Kontos grasped the ingenuity of Kasda and expanded
it into this broad understanding of what artificial intelligence is all about.
Kontos included a
translation from the Greek of Kasda’s the “Conscious Eye” into this book, one
text seeding and illuminating the other. Indeed, Kontos updates and rejuvenates
the insights of Kasda, and, in this innovation, creates an exciting, timely, refreshing,
and fascinating history of artificial intelligence - of what it could have
become.
I recommend Kontos’ and
Kasda’s book. It is a timely, sophisticated, philosophical, and honest account
of artificial intelligence, a problematic endeavor of great potential and grave
risk”. Evaggelos Vallianatos, Computer engineering and propaganda/the
Huffington Post, US. 11/15/2016
