Between the gesture and the prompt
listening, soundscape, and Artificial Intelligence
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https://doi.org/10.33871/19805071.2026.34.1.11802Keywords:
Artificial intelligence, Gesture, Listening, Soundscape, Contemporary artAbstract
The incorporation of artificial intelligence into artistic creation processes has produced significant shifts in regimes of gesture, authorship, and sensorial experience. This article proposes a critical reflection on these transformations by contrasting gesture as a situated practice with algorithmic instruction as an abstract form of command. Drawing on the contributions of Kate Crawford and Félix Guattari, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is understood as a sociotechnical and ecological infrastructure shaped by power relations, extraction, and the automation of experience. In the field of the arts, these issues are challenged by practices grounded in listening and soundscape. The analysis of Voar Doce Lar (2022) by Rick Rodrigues, the historical reference of Stelarc, and RATS – Secret Soundscapes of the City (2017) by Jana Winderen makes it possible to examine how listening asserts itself as a relational and situated practice irreducible to the logic of algorithmic processing. By mobilizing theoretical contributions from R. Murray Schafer and Salomé Voegelin, the article argues that listening constitutes a field of sensorial resistance to the reduction of aesthetic experience to data, instruction, or output, repositioning the body, the environment, and duration at the center of contemporary artistic creation.
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