Post #1818914
2026-04-27 12:17 UTC
I feel like spending time at MoMA and the Guggenheim recently has sharpened some of my thoughts on art and AI, and especially whether AI generated images are art or not.
I've generally said that we make a mistake when we confuse the final artifact for the art, that the artifact is the /evidence/ of the art. The work of creation is the actual art. To skip from ideation to a final product is to eliminate art from the equation. You are left with... just a product.
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@paul_griffin@mastodon.online 2026-04-27 12:17
Seeing so many beautiful paintings and sculptures in person was a powerful experience, and I think I have figured out (partly) why. I was standing there, pondering an object, an artifact, that was also pondered (intensely!) by van Gogh, or Rodan, or Picasso. Created for the express purpose of exactly this. We are both united in that moment, across space and time, in our mutual focus on this artifact that cost the artist days, weeks, sometimes years to produce. 2/