An indispensable guide to AI and art, this book advances a feminist ethic of care to confront real inequalities in access and opportunity. What I appreciate most is the author's willingness to ask what value only humans can give in building more equitable creative futures.

Sanna Lehtinen, Senior University Lecturer in the Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Finland

This book is a careful analysis of artistic responses to AI, showing how artistic strategies and discourse remain sited in larger political and theoretical frameworks, despite AI's apparent novelty. It is a strong and grounded contribution to a field full of speculation.

Melissa Gronlund, author of Contemporary Art and Digital Culture (2016), UK

In Beyond the Brush, Carrie T. Welch foregrounds voices that research too rarely seeks out, drawing on women artists' accounts to rethink AI, creativity, and access. Moving across the histories of AI, AI art, and feminist art practices, Welch shows how authorship, recognition, and creative agency are inseparable from structures of power. Clear, critically engaged, and unafraid of the questions AI forces us to ask about creativity and what it means to be human, this book will be essential reading in feminist media studies, contemporary art, digital culture, and artificial intelligence.

Jelena Guga, Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Digital Society Lab at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia