The 2024 Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize was awarded to Beatriz de Almeida Rodrigues (King’s College London) for her paper “Is AI Art Created by AI?” The paper was recognized for its well-structured argumentation and the way the author provides an informative overview of current positions in this debate while advancing her own view. Rodrigues argues that AI is an assistant to human artists, not an artist itself, and clarifies the stakes in the discussion. This not only explains the importance of the topic of AI in art but also has implications for broader debates on intentional agency in art.
The paper presentation at the European Society for Aesthetics conference in Naples in June 2024 will be followed by a commentary by Tone Roald and the author’s response. A longer version of the winning essay will be published in Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics.
The ESA Essay Prize for PhD students and early career researchers was launched in 2017 in memory Fabian Dorsch, a co-founder and the first secretary of the European Society for Aesthetics. Its former winners include David Collins (2023), Alex Fisher (2022), Nemesio García-Carril Puy (2021), Jeremy Page (2020), Irene Martínez Marín (2019), Mark Windsor (2018), and Servaas van der Berg (2017).
The European Society for Aesthetics was founded in 2008 at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), where it has been based ever since
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