On the Problem of Forming a Conceptual Apparatus: The Ontology of the Algo-Image and the Configuration of Hybrid Agency in the Field of Post-Digital Screen Art

The article explores the fundamental paradigmatic crisis caused by the convergence of artificial intelligence and screen arts. It argues that what this convergence generates is not a temporary change, but a persistent zone of permanent reflexive instability, in which the velocity of technological transformation outpaces the capacity for theoretical understanding. This leads to a systemic categorical crisis: classical concepts of aesthetics and media theory (“author”, “originality”, “work”) lose their analytical power when confronted with algorithmic generation. The article argues that staying within this zone of conceptual instability is a necessary condition for the generation of new knowledge. The promising direction lies not in a return to old categories, but in the active development of interdisciplinary meta-languages capable of describing the hybrid nature of creativity in the anthropo-technical era.

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