Töyrylä, Hannu, author. Abraham Bar Hiyya on time, history, exile and redemption : an analysis of Megillat ha-Megalleh / by Hannu Toyryla. pages cm. -(Studies on the children of Abraham ; volume 4.) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-27035-0 (hardback : alk. paper) -ISBN 978-90-04-27689-5 (e-book : alk. paper) 1. Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, approximately 1065-approximately 1136. Megilat ha-megaleh. 2. Messiah-Judaism. 3. Messianic era (Judaism) 4. Eschatology, Jewish. 5. Resurrection (Jewish theology) 6. Redemption-Judaism. I. Title. BM615.A2343T69 2014 296.3'117-dc23 2014014728This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface.issn 2210-4720 isbn 978-90-04-27035-0 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-27689-5 (e-book)

Recent developments in neural network image processing motivate the question, how these technologies might better serve visual artists. Research goals to date have largely focused on either pastiche interpretations of what is framed as artistic “style” or seek to divulge heretofore unimaginable dimensions of algorithmic “latent space,” but have failed to address the process an artist might actually pursue, when engaged in the reflective act of developing an image from imagination and lived experience. The tools, in other words, are constituted in research demonstrations rather than as tools of creative expression. In this article, the authors explore the phenomenology of the creative environment afforded by artificially intelligent image transformation and generation, drawn from autoethnographic reviews of the authors’ individual approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) art. They offer a post-phenomenology of “neural media” such that visual artists may begin to work with AI technologies in ways that support naturalistic processes of thinking about and interacting with computationally mediated interactive creation.

The structure of the fifth chapter of Megillat ha-Megalleh can be summarized as follows:

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