Theological imaginal reflections with AI artworks

Revealing and obscuring divine knowledge in aesthetic experience

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20242592
AutoresMarta Kawka (0000-0003-4473-7701, Griffith University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen18
Número2
Páginas152-167
Fecha de publicación2025-03-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPractical Theology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1756-073X • E-ISSN: 1756-0748
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1756073x.2025.2474318
OpenAlexW4408814862
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas26

This article presents a practice-led theological inquiry of my experience of creating a multimodal artwork using Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) creative tools (Dalle-3; Suno; Pika; Luma; Kling; Firefly). I examine how my artistic process cultivates theological imagination and becomes a site for the investigation of Viladesau’s Theological Aesthetics, and Brown’s Christian Taste. I explore my process of GenAI creation as a struggle between the generation of symbols that are deep, uplifting and prophetic, and the charm-joy of superficial, banal and deceptive digital kitsch. The article endeavours to re-establish the human goal to seek and be sought by God, to challenge the transhumanist ontology that orients towards the idolisation of human as machine. As a work of practical theology, I examine my quest to find new theological metaphors and symbols within my art practice with GenAI, to facilitate my understanding of God’s work in aesthetic practice, and to activate the process of Visio Divina for the audience

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Theology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy