The threat isn’t that AI replaces artists. It’s subtler and more coercive: that an algorithmically saturated environment erodes the capacity for the kind of thinking that we like to think art requires. Tolerance for ambiguity. Patience with difficulty. The willingness to be bored before a breakthrough.
From Messages to Conversations: AI Agents are Changing how we Find Culture
The first audience for your art is becoming a machine. The question isn’t just how to optimize for that machine, it’s what you give it to say, and whether what it says is worth a conversation.
Did the Supreme Court just unleash the Era of Radioactive Artist IP?
Authorship used to be a status granted by an act of creation. Now it will be a status you will have to defend through paperwork. We have moved from the era of the romantic “lone genius” to the era of the administrative author who will need to “prove” the machine didn’t make it.
When “Better Than” meets “Good Enough”
The question isn’t whether AI will change our definition of creative excellence. The question is how we will engage with that change: with curiously and critical insight, with our existing values intact but our existing definitions loosely held? Or defending the current map as if it were the entire territory.
Old Laws, New Ghosts: Why Artists are losing the Battle for AI
The fear and concern are real. The issues are real. But we’re trying to conjure up rules for 21st Century technologies with a 20th-Century vocabulary that’s ill-equipped for the job.
An AI “Digital Twin” for the Performing Arts
In the evolving world of AI, marketing is moving from getting messages out to engaging in dialog with the consumer. Messages get lost in the Sea of Messages. Persuasion asks what you’re interested in first and engages you in opportunities.
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.
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.
The Essential AI: Translating the Art of What We See, Hear and Experience
To an AI model, a picture is data, sound and music are data, as is traditional spoken or written language. That data is translatable, interchangeable, and, most importantly, linkable and actionable. That means that video, music, sound, movement, image can interact in common language.