We posted more than 6,000 stories across all forms of culture in 2025. When you pull back and look at them in aggregate, the individual crises—the closures in San Francisco, the lawsuits in D.C., the endless op-eds about the “death of cinema”—stop looking like isolated incidents. They resolve into a structural shift.
Archives for 2025
AI that turns Museums into Conversations: The Digital Twin
Museums still operate as if interpretation is a one-way stream, produced by experts and consumed by the public. Instead, imagine an exhibition that doesn’t just speak, but listens and responds.
The Disney/OpenAI Deal: How the Creative Landscape is being Rewritten for Us All
Like it or not, Disney’s move is a big step closer to what an AI creative world might look like.
The AI that has Colonized our Creativity
Everyone’s talking about AI, and you’re being pestered to use it every time you open your phone. But are you aware the extent that AI has taken over how much of what you see and hear online?
Not Really a Manifesto, I guess, but Perhaps a Framework for Thinking about AI and Art…
Notions of ownership of creative work, ideas, and artistic identity are muddied when the technology rapidly outpaces attempts to define issues and even what’s at stake.
Making the Creative Turn: Is Using AI Cheating?
Throughout the digital age, Big Tech has promised us products that will make us more efficient and save time, which, it is assumed, is always an obvious good. It’s a cliché that tools shape the things we make. And through most of our history, better tools have helped us create better things. But what if this isn’t always true?
Creativity Versus Skills
Art that is primarily skill-based — graphic design, stock music or images, text and marketing, etc — can be created faster and often better than human artists, and at lower cost. This is particularly true for compound art that requires specialized equipment and/or collaboration of specialists. As for art with high creative quotient, humans will not only be essential, but the automation of skills available to them will likely make them better. Maybe much better. And certainly more prolific.
How Digital AI Twins could Transform how We Make Art
The Digital Twin idea is the notion of looking at something — an organization, an eco-system, a city — and measuring and defining it in as many meaningful ways as possible and creating a digital representation in which elements can be changed or manipulated to see how the rest of the model reacts.