Susan Sontag cited by Miller: “What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more.... In place of a hermeneutics of art we need an erotics of art.”
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline … but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
Yet, the definition of art hasn’t changed in 100 years, as W. David Marx explained in our recent conversation: “The best way to understand art is against kitsch. Kitsch is things that are made based on existing expectations of your audience. Usually it appeals to sentimentality because that's a universal aesthetic reaction. But art is something... See more
Art is defined by intentionality, and we ought to view “AI art” as an interaction between humans and machines versus ascribing to a computer agency that does not exist.