A Digital Touch : The “Body Issue” in Computational Creativity

In this article, Mattia Merlini and Stefano Maria Nicoletti ask themselves if machines ever take our place in the creation of art, and particularly music. Despite the outstanding results of some well-known Ais, the authors argue that machines present some intrinsic limits in creative contexts. In particular, their attention focuses on what they call the »body issue«, i.e. the role of the body in the experience and creation of music, grounded in contemporary findings in neuroscience, especially on embodied cognition, and also on the theories of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Roland Barthes.