This paper offers a reflection on artistic research strategies in the field of AI Art as a tool for anticipating future forms of aesthetics and creative collaboration between humans and the Agentic Entity. It highlights the shifting social habitus of the contemporary artist, who increasingly possesses formal or informal education in science and technology. The contribution emphasizes the potential of artistic strategies as an accelerator of knowledge production, including within scientific domains, and foregrounds the importance of transposing scientific research methodologies into the sphere of artistic creation.The aim of the paper is to propose that AI Art should not be viewed solely as an aesthetic phenomenon, but also as an active component of the epistemic landscape of the present, situated within the broader context of academic discourse.
Tomáš Marušiak is a visual artist, researcher, and educator working in the field of AI Art. He is a graduate of the Open Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where he studied under Rudolf Sikora and Tomáš Ruller. Between 2005 and 2012, he co-founded the Studio of New Media at the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University in Košice, where he taught until 2012. He is currently based at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, where he conducts research in the aesthetics of AI Art and teaches the course AI Art Strategies. In his artistic-research practice, he focuses on digital, conceptual, and intermedia art, exploring the relationship between the human and the Agentic Entity as a speculative-predictive model of possible manifestations of consciousness in artificial intelligence systems.
