Lorena Orlando
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Lorena Orlando
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Gen Z kids who came of age during the quarantine “experience virtual worlds as ‘real’, while physical reality becomes an anxiety-inducing obligation. Their digital avatars aren’t representations of their physical selves; rather, their physical selves have become imperfect avatars of their digital identities.”
Online feels truer than material reality – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
We see horrible destruction in real time on the far side of the world (or country) while our lives hum along apparently untouched, creating a psychic disconnect between how our lived reality feels and our perception of the world from what we see online .
Online feels truer than material reality – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Who we want to be says more about us than who we are now. These “truer” online selves supersede who we are offline. When we can’t afford to live “authentically” to our desires, we simply signal our aspirations.
Online feels truer than material reality – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Everything we post is abstracted and interpreted as a representation of us.
Online feels truer than material reality – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
For many, the biased output of generative AI is a problem. But it’s a problem that reveals the structure of society and culture. The responses that a generative AI model gives us can reveal the unconsciousness of humanity, society, and the archives—and sometimes, what’s in our collective data unconsciousness is horrible! It reveals the traumas that... See more
Celine Nguyen • Good Artists Copy, Ai Artists ____
- Cardew’s work gave Eno the idea that “an artist didn’t finish a work but started it. design the beginning of something, and the process of releasing the work is the process of planting it in the culture and seeing what happens to it.”
Celine Nguyen • Good Artists Copy, Ai Artists ____
Brian Eno’s A Year with Swollen Appendices , a diary and essays from 1995:
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided . It’s the... See more
Celine Nguyen • Good Artists Copy, Ai Artists ____
As long as we desire to change ourselves and our reality, we will continue to create art. AI might be our companion in this effort, a useful and invigorating collaborator, but it is not capable of changing us alone. We need to actively participate and author that change.
Celine Nguyen • Good Artists Copy, Ai Artists ____
As Cage once wrote, “Our business in living is to become fluent with...life...and art can help this.” And elsewhere: “Art...is not self expression but self alteration.” Artmaking isn’t just something we do for the outcome ; it’s something we do for the process , which includes the process of becoming the person with the taste, knowledge,... See more