# Artificial Aesthetics- Generative Al, Art and Visual Media **Opening (not a real abstract):** Our book explores how generative AI is transforming our understanding of aesthetics, creativity, design, and art appreciation. It uses approaches from six fields. Emanuele brings perspectives from aesthetics, philosophy of art, and psychology of art. Lev contributes perspectives from media theory, digital culture studies, and computer science, as well as his four decades of experience as an artist creating digital media, including recent work with generative AI. This is the first time all these different perspectives have been combined to analyze cultural AI. We started working on the book in the summer of 2019, exchanging many messages, commenting on each other's ideas, and sharing section drafts. While each chapter is written by a single author, it incorporates our ongoing discussions. Given the rapid evolution of generative AI and its wide-reaching impact on art and culture, **Authors:** [[Lev Manovich and Emanuele Arielli]]