Art is invisible. It’s groundrules, its designed structure, and overall patterns are not easily perceived.
And Berger states that the art of the past is no more. It died with the invention of the camera. The result? Pieces of art and fragments of many meanings.
Technology moves the craft to the cutting edge. Practitioners follow after.
For the first time ever, original and new images can be summoned with a machine. We gave code the ability to hallucinate. Type and it shall be.
McLuhan declared teamwork the successor of private effort. But isn’t that always how it’s been?
Digital and analog are felt differently. Why? I think the answer is obvious. Sharing planes of existence has a natural appeal.
The camera destroyed art when it removed the uniqueness of existing only in one place at a time.
Everything can be because that’s all there ever was.
seek light 🕯️
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Books
These are books I’m reading.
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
Just Enough Design by Taku Satoh
Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
The Everything Token by Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers