Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SWS International Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES - ISCSS, Vienna, Avusturya, 24 - 27 Aralık 2025, cilt.12, ss.373-382, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) is redefining both the creation of art and the interpretation of cultural heritage. In this paper, we conceptualise AI in a dual role: (1) Art Historian, using AI to reconstruct, reimagine, and annotate historical artworks; and (2) Artist, using AI to produce novel machine-native aesthetics that challenge traditional notions of style and authorship. We review recent advances in diffusion models, neural style transfer, and vision–language systems that enable these capabilities. Building on this review, we develop a structured framework for “AI-as-Historian”, encompassing digital reconstruction of damaged or lost art, creative reimaginings of artworks in new styles, and AI-driven annotations or guides for cultural collections, and propose a taxonomy of emerging “latent-space aesthetics”. This taxonomy describes visual tendencies of AI- generated art, including hyperrealistic latent realism, surreal morphing of forms, prompt- driven conceptual art, and model-specific noise signatures. We illustrate these dual roles with conceptual case studies and visual examples, demonstrating how an AI might digitally restore a damaged painting or re-envision a masterpiece in another style, alongside the entirely new artistic genres born from generative models. We further discuss the ethical and curatorial implications of AI-mediated art interpretation, such as questions of authenticity, bias in training data, and interpretive authority, and outline future research directions on AI explainability, cross-cultural representation, and audience engagement. Our conclusions highlight that integrating AI into art history and practice offers exciting opportunities to deepen public engagement with art, provided it is done responsibly and with critical awareness of AI’s limitations.