

数智时代的技术演进正系统性地重塑艺术生态。AI技术不仅革新着创作媒介及艺术表现形式,更引发了艺术本体论层面的深层挑战:算法生成模糊了传统艺术边界,AI的参与也动摇了人类作为唯一创造性主体的地位。借助法国哲学家朱利安关于艺术与人之存在同源共构的“去相合”理念,可以重新审视艺术与人之生存的根本关联。艺术的“属人”性并不必然依赖人类亲手制作,而在于作品是否能在“去相合”机制中与人的自由存在、畅然生活相协调;故AI艺术本体论合法性的关键,亦不在于AI能否模仿人类艺术经典或生成审美图像,而在于其能否通过算法与人类感官经验相遇,从而打破既定认知框架,促使人重新面对世界,反思自身。这一视角将AI艺术本体论合法性的讨论从人机主体之争转向生成与存在之维,为超越人机对立、理解数智时代人与艺术的关系提供了存在论层面的分析框架。
Revisiting the Ontology of Art in the Digital-intelligent Era
——New Insights from François Jullien's Notion of "Dé-coïncidence"
Li Hanbing
(Wuhan University)
Abstract Technological evolution in the digital-intelligent era is systematically reshaping the art ecosystem. Such technologies not only renovate creative media and forms of expression but also pose profound challenges at the level of artistic ontology: algorithmic generation blurs traditional artistic boundaries, and AI penetration undermines humanity' exclusive standing as the sole creative subject. Drawing on French philosopher François Jullien's notion of "Dé-coïncidence", which holds that art and human existence are co-originated and co-constituted, this paper re-examines the fundamental connection between art and human existence. It argues that the inherently human character of art does not necessarily hinge on manual human production; instead, it rests on whether artworks can align with human existence and unconstrained living via the "Dé-coïncidence" mechanism. Accordingly, the ontological legitimacy of AI art lies not in reproducing classics or generating aesthetic images, but in whether algorithmic creations can resonate with human sensory experience, break down established cognitive frameworks, and invite people to re-engage the world and reflect on themselves. This perspective shifts debates over the ontological validity of AI art away from conflicts over human versus artificial authorship to the dimension of generation and existence, and offers an ontological analytical framework to transcend human-AI binary opposition and unpack art-human relations in the digital intelligent era.
Key words digital-intelligent era; AI art; ontology of art; François Jullien; ''Dé-coïncidence''
■ 作者简介 李寒冰,武汉大学哲学学院弘毅博士后,湖北 武汉 430072。