Love Thy AI?: An Essay on the Influences of the Christian and Confucian Ontologies on Creativity, Technology and Media Art
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This paper examines the anthropocentric orientation and critical view of technology as traced within the theological doctrine of Christianity, vis-a-vis the anthropocosmic and enabling, but less critical perspective, established via Confucianism. It then examines how these distinct traditional worldviews are amplified in the popular media of our contemporary milieu, that can then influence the development and reception of Artificial Intelligence today in different geographical locations. Through this comparison, this paper invites readers to locate invisible influences that constrict our a-priori assumptions by exploring and articulating previously occluded cultural perspectives within the context of media art. Thereafter, the arena of new... Ver más
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Love Thy AI?: An Essay on the Influences of the Christian and Confucian Ontologies on Creativity, Technology and Media Art Christianity La Tadeo Dearte Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano Artículo de revista Núm. 12 , Año 2023 : Diseño+Arte+Ciencia 12 9 Technology Creativity New media art Human and non-human beings Human-Technology relationship Ontology Confucianism art Park , Lisa SoYoung Artificial Intelligence This paper examines the anthropocentric orientation and critical view of technology as traced within the theological doctrine of Christianity, vis-a-vis the anthropocosmic and enabling, but less critical perspective, established via Confucianism. It then examines how these distinct traditional worldviews are amplified in the popular media of our contemporary milieu, that can then influence the development and reception of Artificial Intelligence today in different geographical locations. Through this comparison, this paper invites readers to locate invisible influences that constrict our a-priori assumptions by exploring and articulating previously occluded cultural perspectives within the context of media art. Thereafter, the arena of new media art is proposed as a conducive space and context upon which such inclinations can be observed, discussed, and experimented with, in view of collectively expanding and diversifying theories and discourses in the mainstream media art-world. Text Domenico Quaranta. Media, new media, postmedia. Milano: Postmedia Books, 2010. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/jan/12/the-postmedia-perspective/. Eisenstadt, Shmuel Noah. “Multiple Modernities.” Daedalus 129, no. 1 (2000): 1-29. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20027613. Fung, Yu-Lan. “Why China Has No Science–An Interpretation of the History and Consequences of Chinese Philosophy.” International Journal of Ethics 32, no. 3 (1922): 237-63, https://doi.org/10.1086/intejethi.32.3.2377487 Garcia, David and Geert Lovink, “The ABC of Tactical Media,” Nettime mailing list archives, May 16, 1997, https://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9705/msg00096.html. Harvey, Graham. Animism: Respecting the Living World. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays, vol. 12. Harper & Row, 1977. Hui, Yuk. Art and Cosmotechnics. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctv1qgnq42. Hui, Yuk. “Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolitics.” E-Flux 86 (November 2017), https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctv1qgnq42 Hui, Yuk. The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics. Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2016. Hui, Yuk and Andreas Broeckmann, eds. 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory. Lüneburg: meson press, 2015. Kim, Yong-ok and Jung-Kyu Kim. The Great Equal Society: Confucianism, China and the 21st Century. New Jersey: World Scientific, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1142/8792 Li, Chenyang. “Confucian Perspectives,” in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed. Carl Mitcham, vol. 1. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. Ni, Peimin. Confucius: The Man and the Way of Gongfu. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. MacDonald, Keza. “Being Human: How Realistic Do We Want Robots to Be?,” The Guardian, June 27, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/27/being-human-realistic-robots-google-assistant-androids. Schuurman, Derek C. “Artificial Intelligence: Discerning a Christian Response”. Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith. (2018) Paracka Jr., Daniel J. “China’s Three Teachings and the Relationship of Heaven, Earth and Humanity,” Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture & Ecology 16, no. 1 (January 2012): 73-98. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853511X617803 Pop, Susa, Tanya Toft, Nerea Calvillo and Mark Wright. What Urban Media Art Can Do: Why When Where & How. Stuttgart: avedition, 2016. Shum, Heung-yeung, Xiao-dong He, and Di Li. “From Eliza to XiaoIce: Challenges and Opportunities with Social Chatbots,” Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering 19, no. 1 (January 2018): 10-26, https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.1700826. http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 Callicott, J. Baird and Roger T. Ames. Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology. State University of New York Press, 1989. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 info:eu-repo/semantics/article White, Lynn. “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis.” Science, New Series 155, no. 3767 (1967): 1203-7. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.155.3767.1203 Tucker, Mary Evelyn. “The Relevance of Chinese Neo-Confucianism for the Reverence of Nature.” In Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought, ed. J. Baird Callicott and James McRae, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781438452029-010 Tu, Weiming. Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation, SUNY Series in Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. Calugareanu, Ilinca. “Meet Erica, the World’s Most Human-like Autonomous Android – Video.” The Guardian, accessed August 24, 2023, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2017/apr/07/meet-erica-the-worlds-most-autonomous-android-video. Inglés Brunner, Emmil. “Christianity and Civilization: Chapter 10 The Problem of Creativity.” The Gifford Lectures, 1948, https://www.giffordlectures.org/books/christianity-and-civilization-vol-1/x-problem-creativity. Brook, Timothy. “Rethinking Syncretism: The Unity of the Three Teachings and Their Joint Worship in Late-Imperial China.” Journal of Chinese Religions 21, no. 1 (January 1993): 13-44. https://doi.org/10.1179/073776993805307448 Este artículo examina la orientación antropocéntrica y la visión crítica de la tecnología tal como se trazan en la doctrina teológica del cristianismo, en comparación con la perspectiva antropocósmica y facilitadora –pero menos crítica– establecida a través del confucianismo. Luego examina cómo estas distintas visiones del mundo tradicionales son amplificadas por los medios de comunicación masiva de nuestro entorno contemporáneo, los cuales pueden influir en el desarrollo y la recepción de la inteligencia artificial hoy en día en diferentes ubicaciones geográficas. A través de esta comparación, este artículo invita a los lectores a localizar las influencias invisibles que restringen nuestras suposiciones a priori al explorar y articular perspectivas culturales previamente ocluidas dentro del contexto del arte de los medios. A partir de ahí, el ámbito del arte de los nuevos medios es propuesto como un espacio y contexto propicio en el que se pueden observar, discutir y experimentar tales inclinaciones, con vistas a expandir y diversificar colectivamente las teorías y los discursos en el mundo del arte de los medios dominantes. Inteligencia artificial Cristianismo Confucianismo Ontología Relación humano-tecnología Seres humanos y no humanos Arte de nuevos medios Creatividad Tecnología arte Journal article Publication application/pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 Bjork, Russell C. “Artificial Intelligence and the Soul.” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 60, no. 2 (2008): 95-102. Bang, Seung Ho. “Thinking of Artificial Intelligence Cyborgization with a Biblical Perspective (Anthropology of the Old Testament).” European Journal of Science and Theology 10, no. 3 (2014): 15-26. https://revistas.utadeo.edu.co/index.php/ltd/article/view/love-thy-ai-essay-influences-christian-confucian Esta obra está bajo una licencia internacional Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0. ¿Amas tu IA?: Un ensayo sobre las influencias de la ontología cristiana y confuciana en la creatividad, la tecnología y el arte mediático. 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This paper examines the anthropocentric orientation and critical view of technology as traced within the theological doctrine of Christianity, vis-a-vis the anthropocosmic and enabling, but less critical perspective, established via Confucianism. It then examines how these distinct traditional worldviews are amplified in the popular media of our contemporary milieu, that can then influence the development and reception of Artificial Intelligence today in different geographical locations. Through this comparison, this paper invites readers to locate invisible influences that constrict our a-priori assumptions by exploring and articulating previously occluded cultural perspectives within the context of media art. Thereafter, the arena of new media art is proposed as a conducive space and context upon which such inclinations can be observed, discussed, and experimented with, in view of collectively expanding and diversifying theories and discourses in the mainstream media art-world.
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Este artículo examina la orientación antropocéntrica y la visión crítica de la tecnología tal como se trazan en la doctrina teológica del cristianismo, en comparación con la perspectiva antropocósmica y facilitadora –pero menos crítica– establecida a través del confucianismo. Luego examina cómo estas distintas visiones del mundo tradicionales son amplificadas por los medios de comunicación masiva de nuestro entorno contemporáneo, los cuales pueden influir en el desarrollo y la recepción de la inteligencia artificial hoy en día en diferentes ubicaciones geográficas. A través de esta comparación, este artículo invita a los lectores a localizar las influencias invisibles que restringen nuestras suposiciones a priori al explorar y articular perspectivas culturales previamente ocluidas dentro del contexto del arte de los medios. A partir de ahí, el ámbito del arte de los nuevos medios es propuesto como un espacio y contexto propicio en el que se pueden observar, discutir y experimentar tales inclinaciones, con vistas a expandir y diversificar colectivamente las teorías y los discursos en el mundo del arte de los medios dominantes.
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Domenico Quaranta. Media, new media, postmedia. Milano: Postmedia Books, 2010. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/jan/12/the-postmedia-perspective/. Eisenstadt, Shmuel Noah. “Multiple Modernities.” Daedalus 129, no. 1 (2000): 1-29. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20027613. Fung, Yu-Lan. “Why China Has No Science–An Interpretation of the History and Consequences of Chinese Philosophy.” International Journal of Ethics 32, no. 3 (1922): 237-63, https://doi.org/10.1086/intejethi.32.3.2377487 Garcia, David and Geert Lovink, “The ABC of Tactical Media,” Nettime mailing list archives, May 16, 1997, https://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9705/msg00096.html. Harvey, Graham. Animism: Respecting the Living World. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays, vol. 12. Harper & Row, 1977. Hui, Yuk. Art and Cosmotechnics. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctv1qgnq42. Hui, Yuk. “Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolitics.” E-Flux 86 (November 2017), https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctv1qgnq42 Hui, Yuk. The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics. Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2016. Hui, Yuk and Andreas Broeckmann, eds. 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory. Lüneburg: meson press, 2015. Kim, Yong-ok and Jung-Kyu Kim. The Great Equal Society: Confucianism, China and the 21st Century. New Jersey: World Scientific, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1142/8792 Li, Chenyang. “Confucian Perspectives,” in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed. Carl Mitcham, vol. 1. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. Ni, Peimin. Confucius: The Man and the Way of Gongfu. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. MacDonald, Keza. “Being Human: How Realistic Do We Want Robots to Be?,” The Guardian, June 27, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/27/being-human-realistic-robots-google-assistant-androids. Schuurman, Derek C. “Artificial Intelligence: Discerning a Christian Response”. Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith. (2018) Paracka Jr., Daniel J. “China’s Three Teachings and the Relationship of Heaven, Earth and Humanity,” Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture & Ecology 16, no. 1 (January 2012): 73-98. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853511X617803 Pop, Susa, Tanya Toft, Nerea Calvillo and Mark Wright. What Urban Media Art Can Do: Why When Where & How. Stuttgart: avedition, 2016. Shum, Heung-yeung, Xiao-dong He, and Di Li. “From Eliza to XiaoIce: Challenges and Opportunities with Social Chatbots,” Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering 19, no. 1 (January 2018): 10-26, https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.1700826. Callicott, J. Baird and Roger T. Ames. Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology. State University of New York Press, 1989. White, Lynn. “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis.” Science, New Series 155, no. 3767 (1967): 1203-7. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.155.3767.1203 Tucker, Mary Evelyn. “The Relevance of Chinese Neo-Confucianism for the Reverence of Nature.” In Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought, ed. J. Baird Callicott and James McRae, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781438452029-010 Tu, Weiming. Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation, SUNY Series in Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. Calugareanu, Ilinca. “Meet Erica, the World’s Most Human-like Autonomous Android – Video.” The Guardian, accessed August 24, 2023, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2017/apr/07/meet-erica-the-worlds-most-autonomous-android-video. Brunner, Emmil. “Christianity and Civilization: Chapter 10 The Problem of Creativity.” The Gifford Lectures, 1948, https://www.giffordlectures.org/books/christianity-and-civilization-vol-1/x-problem-creativity. Brook, Timothy. “Rethinking Syncretism: The Unity of the Three Teachings and Their Joint Worship in Late-Imperial China.” Journal of Chinese Religions 21, no. 1 (January 1993): 13-44. https://doi.org/10.1179/073776993805307448 Bjork, Russell C. “Artificial Intelligence and the Soul.” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 60, no. 2 (2008): 95-102. Bang, Seung Ho. “Thinking of Artificial Intelligence Cyborgization with a Biblical Perspective (Anthropology of the Old Testament).” European Journal of Science and Theology 10, no. 3 (2014): 15-26. |
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