arxivcs.CYcs.AI2026-07-20
The Aura in the Machine: Genealogy and the Status of the Work of Art in the Generative Era
This paper frames Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) not as an unprecedented technological rupture, but as an industrial-scale manifestation of a deeply rooted historical process. Through a genealogy of generative arts, it shows how AI's questions on authorship and creativit…