Neat! I just wrote about Daguerre, looking to the past so I can understand the future better. I particularly love the junction of art and science (including art and technology), and I have the same questions about today's generative AI. I think it's a canvas with paint on it, a medium we need to understand we are moving around and allowing it to sort of create itself, the same way the medium is a part of the painting... but beyond that, it's going to be really, really interesting.
I felt a click as you went from DaVinci running out of paint to the "flashy" work of Monet being made possible by advances in pigments, tubes, and brushes. There is something fun about framing the history of art as mere economics of scale -- although I know we both know that's not what drives artists. You walked a line there in a fun way.
Also, I like how you hint at AI without needing to say it. Keeps the joint feeling classy. Who knows what the future holds for artists -- but it will likely be balked at by the purveyors of "real" art.
Neat! I just wrote about Daguerre, looking to the past so I can understand the future better. I particularly love the junction of art and science (including art and technology), and I have the same questions about today's generative AI. I think it's a canvas with paint on it, a medium we need to understand we are moving around and allowing it to sort of create itself, the same way the medium is a part of the painting... but beyond that, it's going to be really, really interesting.
Thanks so much for reading it, Andrew, I appreciate it!
I felt a click as you went from DaVinci running out of paint to the "flashy" work of Monet being made possible by advances in pigments, tubes, and brushes. There is something fun about framing the history of art as mere economics of scale -- although I know we both know that's not what drives artists. You walked a line there in a fun way.
Also, I like how you hint at AI without needing to say it. Keeps the joint feeling classy. Who knows what the future holds for artists -- but it will likely be balked at by the purveyors of "real" art.
Thanks for the read, Rooster!
Let the machines doom scroll. We're busying making weird shit.
100%, this is what I'm hoping for. Thank you very much for reading and getting into the spaces between the words, and understanding it.