# On the Injunction of XAIxArt

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06227 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.06227/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 1 of its 9 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 12 Sep 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.07269/) (2017)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The position paper highlights the range of concerns that are engulfed in the injunction of explainable artificial intelligence in art (XAIxArt). Through a series of quick sub-questions, it points towards the ambiguities concerning 'explanation' and the postpositivist tradition of 'relevant explanation'. Rejecting both 'explanation' and 'relevant explanation', the paper takes a stance that XAIxArt is a symptom of insecurity of the anthropocentric notion of art and a nostalgic desire to return to outmoded notions of authorship and human agency. To justify this stance, the paper makes a distinction between an ornamentation model of explanation to a model of explanation as sense-making.