Where Next for Digital Art?

Art will in fact thrive upon the mess that AI wreaks upon the masses. Action to reaction to commodification of said reaction. Toss in some enshittification and babe, there's really nothing better you could do for Art.

“an art work is neither a physical thing nor a viewer’s mental image of it but something in between, created in attentive space”

The Battle for Attention

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/the-battle-for-attention

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Artworks don’t manage knowledge—they channel it. It takes time and attention to understand an artwork’s meaning. Each piece demands a process of reconciliation, and a merging of two contexts: the artwork’s own history and the viewer’s private knowledge network. When it’s placed in a new context, its meaning evolves and expands elastically. It store... See more