I think Jonathan’s quote from Camus reminds us that we have gotten into the habit of misusing the word “art”: ART is work of the imagination, not just a congealed agglomeration of pixels from other stuff! The technique of re-sorting pixels may yet be used to produce ART but I’m guessing it is going to require serious application of human…
I think Jonathan’s quote from Camus reminds us that we have gotten into the habit of misusing the word “art”: ART is work of the imagination, not just a congealed agglomeration of pixels from other stuff! The technique of re-sorting pixels may yet be used to produce ART but I’m guessing it is going to require serious application of human imagination to create something truly novel, indeed even rebellious. Norte Dame and Brunelleschi’s dome simply should not have worked but there they stand. And we still read Shakespeare and Dickenson and Eliot and e.e. cummings. I can’t even get auto-correct to let me use that last poet’s preferred capitalization without fighting with it for 6 full minutes; whatever makes me think that its progeny and even its more sophisticated AI cousins will be able to produce novel greatness? If that fundamental question requires I retain faith in some transcendent “creativity,” I’m grateful for it. I’ll take Scorsese over the Gourmet Detective any day!😁
I think Jonathan’s quote from Camus reminds us that we have gotten into the habit of misusing the word “art”: ART is work of the imagination, not just a congealed agglomeration of pixels from other stuff! The technique of re-sorting pixels may yet be used to produce ART but I’m guessing it is going to require serious application of human imagination to create something truly novel, indeed even rebellious. Norte Dame and Brunelleschi’s dome simply should not have worked but there they stand. And we still read Shakespeare and Dickenson and Eliot and e.e. cummings. I can’t even get auto-correct to let me use that last poet’s preferred capitalization without fighting with it for 6 full minutes; whatever makes me think that its progeny and even its more sophisticated AI cousins will be able to produce novel greatness? If that fundamental question requires I retain faith in some transcendent “creativity,” I’m grateful for it. I’ll take Scorsese over the Gourmet Detective any day!😁