Editorial for Art Style Magazine Issue 17

In this edition of Art Style Magazine, AI and Future Creativity Politics – Expanded Edition, we enter a moment in which artistic practice and cultural critique can no longer treat artificial intelligence as a peripheral tool or a speculative horizon. AI is now deeply entangled with how images are produced and circulated, how music is composed and heard, how archives are curated, and how publics imagine both their past and their future. The contributions gathered in this issue respond to our call for critical and interdisciplinary engagement with these transformations, examining not only what AI can do but also what it means for authorship, agency, sustainability, justice, and perception. Our call for papers emphasized several key questions: How is AI reshaping artistic creation and aesthetic theory? In what ways does it reconfigure relations between artist, observer, and environment? How does it function as both tool and collaborator, and with what ethical or political consequences? How might we situate AI within broader debates on social inclusion, sustainability, and decoloniality in the arts? The contributions collected here do not converge on a single answer. Rather, they chart a field of tensions—between human and non-human agency, opacity and transparency, speed and attention, innovation and tradition, spectacle and critique—that collectively illuminate the stakes of AI-driven cultural production today.