Even 100 years on, I find Walter Benjamin’s reflections on “aura” very modern…
… As AI and digital reproduction accelerate, we again trade intimacy and uniqueness for scale and reach. https://t.co/ehAKN7K3ku
Even 100 years on, I find Walter Benjamin’s reflections on “aura” very modern… … As AI and digital reproduction accelerate, we again trade intimacy and uniqueness for scale and reach. https://t.co/ehAKN7K3ku
That for me is the poetics of encryption. Artists are already using generative AI as a tool to reimagine our relation to the perennial big ideas. Like: What is identity? What is spirituality? What is cultural heritage? How can the human resist the fast-moving disruption to our lives and to our long-standing imaginaries? These are the questions that... See more
NADIM SAMMAN
AI ART: YOU PRESS THE BUTTON, WE DO THE REST
"We are all products of what has come before us, but it’s by living our lives in interaction with others that we bring meaning into the world. That is something that an auto-complete algorithm can never do, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise." @Tedchiang... See more
alejandro cartagenax.comBut, according to Benjamin, there’s a danger when people mistake that reproduction for the work of art itself, because it is now being presented devoid of its “aura.”
Douglas Rushkoff • Life Inc.
Both Turato’s show and our AI image analysis experiment reveal a deeper anxiety: that even our most human modes of communication – speech, image, story – are being hollowed out by scale and speed.