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
The vast interconnection enabled by digital platforms has ended up creating more of a sense of sameness than diversity. Users are subtly guided toward the same subsets of topics, urged on by recommendations that are designed not to serve their interests but to create profitable attention fodder to sell to advertisers. Instagram doesn’t care that yo... See more
Welcome to Filterworld｜Dirt
In the digital age, cultural artifacts are eroded by abundance. Timelines layer and compress artwork, images, and artifacts into corners of the internet. In my corner, I stumbled across a speech entitled “Perfume, Defense and David Bowie’s Wedding” delivered by Brian Eno in 1992 at the Sadler Wells Theatre in London. In it, Eno predicted the nonlin... See more
The Future Will Be Like Perfume | Are.na Editorial
But a print of a Vincent van Gogh, no matter how high quality its reproduction, is not the real thing. In Benjamin’s words, the print lacks the original’s “presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be”; or, as he proceeds to call it, its “aura”.
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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
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