Results by title

89 books match the query 'Invention' and 2 start with g

cover of Genre And The Invention Of The Writer: Reconsidering the Place of Invention in Composition

Genre And The Invention Of The Writer

Reconsidering the Place of Invention in Composition

Anis Bawarshi

Utah State University Press, 2003

In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention. In describing what he calls "the genre function," he explores what is at stake for the study and teaching of writing to imagine invention as a way that writers locate themselves, via genres, within various positions and activities. He argues, in fact, that invention is a process in which writers are acted upon by genres as much as they act themselves. Such an approach naturally requires the composition scholar to re-place invention from the writer to the sites of action, the genres, in which the writer participates. This move calls for a thoroughly rhetorical view of invention, roughly in the tradition of Richard Young, Janice Lauer, and those who have followed them.

Instead of mastering notions of "good" writing, Bawarshi feels that students gain more from learning how to adapt socially and rhetorically as they move from one "genred" site of action to the next.
[more]
cover of Ground Truth: Art History and the Invention of Computer Vision

Ground Truth

Art History and the Invention of Computer Vision

Elizabeth C. Mansfield

University of Minnesota Press, 2027

An in-depth examination of how computer vision in AI is indebted to artistic ideals from the Enlightenment

When Dutch megabank ING launched a 2016 advertising campaign spearheaded by an AI-generated “next Rembrandt,” it demonstrated just how deeply Western assumptions about the history of art had infiltrated fledgling artificial intelligence technologies. Working backward from this computer-generated Old Master painting, Elizabeth C. Mansfield traces the history of computer vision (the branch of AI research concerned with visual perception, recognition, and design) back to Enlightenment fantasies of intelligent machines and artistic automata.

Through her inquiry in eighteenth-century European fascination with art-making machines, Mansfield connects centuries-old automata to contemporary AI systems like DALL-E and Midjourney, showing how the history of art abides as a ghost in the machine of computer vision. She documents the artistic ambitions, aesthetic experiments, commercial pressures, and crises of authenticity that occur during the development of a technology designed to emulate aspects of human visual perception.

An innovative art historical response to computer vision, Ground Truth offers important new directions for a renewed engagement with art’s humanist and digital generation history. At a time when the humanist enterprise is being questioned, Mansfield makes the different worlds of art history and computer vision mutually intelligible in this compelling account of both.

Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

[more]