Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

this example, consider how questions
Within
context, access, values and incentives
of
can play the role of enhancing
Technology
possibilities in the arts, as well
existing
creating new forms of expression and
as
To what extent is this presenting
production.
challenges for knowledge in the arts? The
new
for example, about the artistic status of
debate,
produced poetry and music is a relatively
AI
one, but the questions of authorship,
recent
quality and value are concerns that
originality,
long been at the centre of discourse in the
have
explore an example of the interaction
Let’s
artist and technology in digitally
between
art production methods. Dan Tepfer’s
enhanced
is a self-playing piano powered by an
partner
in the production of artistic
intersect
knowledge.
algorithm. Follow the link to
improvisational
out how Tepfer has produced the algorithm
find
programmed a hybrid piano to co-create
and
pieces with him in real time.
musical
terms: Improvisational
Search
digital player piano
algorithms
can we say about the artistic status of
What
musical compositions? Consider how
Tepfer’s
involvement of the algorithm in this case
the
or complicates your answer to the
changes
What if he had two algorithm-powered
question.
playing with each other?
pianos
III. Methods and tools
III. Methods and tools
arts.
Making connections
as mathematical knowledge? Similarly here, if an
algorithm composes a musical piece that a human
Technology in the arts and mathematics
cannot read or perform, to what extent can we call this
an art piece? Comparing these two cases, consider
In Chapter 11 we encounter the example of nonsurveyable
proof, a computer-generated solution
what happens when technological advancements
outpace our human abilities and what the implications
to a unsolved mathematical problem. There we ask
of this are for knowledge.
the question: if the proof is too long or complex for
humans to check it, can we conrm it and accept it
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