Posted inCommentary Poetry Technology
Noise, art, and AI. A musician considers the function of art
Marc Ribot responds to a question on whether AI can create. So,…
Posted inTechnology
Two kinds of beauty. Brief excerpt from The Score
"Object beauty" and "process beauty": brief excerpt from C. Thi Nguyen's The Score
Posted inLiving Poetry Technology
Fiat ars, pereat mundus
Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all?
Posted inCommentary Technology
Sense and GPT-ability
"It’s the lack of this tactile sensation, this palpability, that seems to me an awful prospect in the automatic summoning of sentences, rather than the elimination of effort per se."
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Between artist and GPT
Avital Meshi says, “I don’t want to use it, I want to be it.” “It” is generative AI.
Posted inHistory Technology
Separated by more than a century, two musicians share a complaint
Rick Beato and John Philip Sousa agree on a "menace" to music and to human creativity even though they never met.
Posted inCommentary Living
Hanging out with artists in The Ark
The Ark was the birthplace of Duke basketball. Maybe conversations started there can ignite creative indolence and a truer excellence, too.