What is the value of curation as time passes?
The more our world becomes measurable and quantifiable, the more we need spaces that preserve what can't be measured—the hunches we can't explain, the patterns we feel but can't prove.
“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.
In the months that followed the Fountain’s controversial submission, the Dadaist publication The Blind Man published an editorial defending it: “Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title
... See moreBut it’s not the image that you see,” Shan continues. “It’s the human emotion. It’s the feeling evoked in the audience.”
When I think about art and its relationship with generative AI, I find myself caught in a loop. If art is the human idea, then wouldn’t a human, typing a prompt into something like Midjourney, count as the human effort within the
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