Name: Temporal Human Creativity and the Limits of AI Art
Start: 2026-07-07T14:00:00+1200
End: 2026-07-07T14:55:00+1200

Temporal Human Creativity and the Limits of AI Art

Tuesday July 7, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm NZST

MSB1.20

This paper examines the role of fine arts in shaping temporal consciousness within a technology-mediated environment, particularly amid the rise of AI-generated art. Insights from Watsuji Tetsurô and Imamichi Tomonobu have already presented a reaction to the significance of temporality and aesthetic experience in their discussions on technology and the ethics of post-structural alterity. However, there remains a potential discussion in systematically articulating how artistic expression uniquely cultivates the virtue of temporal attentiveness in contrast to the technological production of AI art. This paper engages that discussion by analyzing the fine arts as bearers of temporal awareness in the contemporary context of AI art. From such discussion, there is a close examination of the concepts of artistic creation, expression, and ephemerality—further arguing that aesthetic experience enables an awareness of the transient, thereby restoring a sense of temporality diminished by technological abstraction. Such findings suggest that, unlike AI-generated art, human artistic activity embodies a lived temporal process essential to one’s aesthetic formation. The study brings further insight that preserving the expressive and temporal dimensions of art is crucial for sustaining an orientation wherein a critical framework is offered for evaluating the limitations and implications of AI art in contemporary society.

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Kevin Xavier Roque

Ateneo de Manila University

Kevin Xavier Roque is an instructor at Ateneo de Manila University. His research interests include philosophical aesthetics, historical and contemporary East Asian philosophy, systematic ethics, and philosophy of religion. He has a particular engagement with the Kyoto School of Philosophy... Read More →

Tuesday July 7, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm NZST
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