i received Mail Art from Sabela Baña

[Zack]

creepy imagery, luckily offset by...

these works remind me of how the world is getting weirder every day... will AI help us to imagine/create a better one, or just distract us from the problems facing us? that age-old question: art or entertainment? 

[Zack]

oh i'm not saying AI can't (help us to) produce art; ARTificial... it's baked right in there, so yes, always already present and not going away. the terms i am 'opposing' are art and entertainment.

i think our choices matter, though, and the more attention we give to machines and the virtual worlds they enable, the less attention we are paying to actual human beings and the material world around us. of course many folks - practitioners, patrons, consumers - have used analog art forms to escape (from) the world, so i don't think the choice of media is as important as what we do with it, as you've noted, MH.

just because i'm still using paper glue and scissors doesn't mean i expect the rest of the world to follow suit. i wonder, though: maybe i would feel differently if i could afford a higher energy bill and more printer ink... 

[MH//ANTIPODE]

Maybe the question isn’t AI or art, but how AI can expand what art already is. The weirdness of the world has always been an engine for imagination. Distraction or creation depends on how we use it. For me AI often feels like collaborating with a very weird partner.. sometimes nonsense, sometimes genius but i also don't wanna miss on it.

[Medwolf]

nice