FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

The concept of “aura” of a work of art defined as its “unique existence”, “its presence in time and space” (Benjamin, 1969) and the transformation of this concept within the context of AI-generated art, the “new aura” being characterised by “technological uniqueness, the role of data, unpredictability, collaborative creation, and the viewer’s engagement with technology” (Sungjin, 2024). Sources: (1) Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Illuminations, 1969. https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf. (2) Sungjin, Park. “The Work of Art in the Age of Generative AI: Aura, Liberation, and Democratization.” AI & SOCIETY, May 3, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01948-6.

Florentina Armaselu is a research scientist at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg. Her research and teaching focus on areas such as natural language processing, linguistic linked open data, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence, and their applications in digital humanities and digital history (https://www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/people/florentina-armaselu/).