Beyond Hegel's End of Art: Exploring the Implications of Memo Akten’s Deep Meditations: A Brief History of Almost Everything for Contemporary Aesthetics and Metaphysics

Memo Akten's 'Deep Meditations: A Brief History of Almost Everything' is an artwork that utilises AI technology to process big data and create immersive audio-visual installations. "Deep Meditations" engages audiences in contemplating topics through cohesive visual and auditory experiences of images and contents of almost everything, such as life, nature, universe, art, and love, signifying the potential for understanding the spirits related to ecosystems, humanity, culture, history, technology, aesthetics, and more through AI and artificial neural networks. The work challenges not only the traditional artistic media but also the philosophical perspectives on art evolution, sensory and perception variations.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel has a profound influence on philosophy. His investigation of art evolution and perspective on individual arts provide valuable insights into art history and aesthetic theory. In this research, his idea of 'the end of art' is used to situate art in contemporary innovation, reviewing AI-generated artwork and art transformation, and examining the implications of AI in shaping the value, spirit, and truth beyond "the end of art".

The research coins AI art's ambiguity and variability to shift across theoretical categories of art forms, exploring its potential to mediate between the fundamental nature without inherent knowledge and "emotion" to reveal values in AI systems based on the training datasets, the algorithm architecture and software to hold and construct the spirit and absolute truth that Hegel emphasises as essential in art.