# Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media

Lev Manovich & Emanuele Arielli (2025). Essay. manovich.net.

Free book-length inquiry into generative media, aesthetics and authorship. Dense, but the right depth when the field needs more than tool tips.

- [Open source](https://manovich.net/index.php/projects/artificial-aesthetics)
- [Library](https://eugfa.org/discourse#manovich-artificial-aesthetics)

## The reading room

- [A curated reading room for generative film](https://eugfa.org/briefing/reading-room-opens)