this is *so* thorough and the idea that "vibes" pushing into (or becoming??) art is super interesting because, while AI can do "anything" in two dimensions and is going to ruin so many two dimensional things, it won't be able to combat the literal, physical vibes and places. it may be able to make holodecks – but that definitely requires more than, say, an iPhone to experience. maybe this is all gonna mean a rise in more site-specific, immersive artwork but without tech in reaction to what art "really" is?? (also the idea of ai like LSD is just GREAT GREAT GREAT)
Honestly I did not think of that but I would agree that this would be art's last hope; IRL stuff. I am more skeptical of institutional immersive experiences. Those just devolve into selfie hell. But more grass roots stuff...I agree.
Glad you got the LSD thing. For years I cynically say acid as an op. Nope the whole thing backfired so of course the FBI, etc. had to imprison actual dissidents and leave the mush mouth goofballs on the street. Needless to say, even if best case scenario AI becomes like LSD, it will be reclaimed for authoritarian uses (or made illegal lol)
Really glad Chris Jesu mentioned you in a recent comment of his. You’ve got a pretty good bead on what’s going on with the art world and I really appreciate how you articulate it here. It coalesced a lot of separate thoughts I’ve been having with my observations, analyses, and experiences.
It’s funny how certain art institutions feel anachronistic in society now. I’m a classically trained musician, so I’m pretty used to divining the living art practices that working musicians deal in from the necropolitics of the culture industry. Academia should install recruitment centers and start posting banners on their school of music websites and halls that all the band kids interested in a performance degree should know that their programs are designed to pipeline them into the military bands, cuz they’re the only institutional jobs immediately available. It would be more honest than what they instruct performers to be capable of in the abstract or in preparation for elite/grant patronage and municipal orchestra audition cycling, since chamber and solo recital scenes don’t “really” exist outside school.
As with any life and the real art that stems from it, it must live on in the margins of cultural death. Better to keep it alive in the house with friends than not at all. You can only sustain it out into the streets if you’re dedicated, and in the halls if you’re lucky at the moment. Dunno what kind of reckoning it’ll take to revitalize healthy social cultures again, but I suspect it will require a regression and retreat from the internet to some degree.
Hey. Thanks for the comment. So I actually think that now, since there is a huge pro-Palestinian movement that corporate media won't touch (yet) there is potential for many artistic movements away from prying corporations. But the mesoculture needs to return (if you're not sure what
a mesoculture is, i have a whole article about it from two weeks ago). Cheers!
I just flew in from the post-fame future and boy are my arms tired!
I promise this is the last doom-like prophecy this year.
this is *so* thorough and the idea that "vibes" pushing into (or becoming??) art is super interesting because, while AI can do "anything" in two dimensions and is going to ruin so many two dimensional things, it won't be able to combat the literal, physical vibes and places. it may be able to make holodecks – but that definitely requires more than, say, an iPhone to experience. maybe this is all gonna mean a rise in more site-specific, immersive artwork but without tech in reaction to what art "really" is?? (also the idea of ai like LSD is just GREAT GREAT GREAT)
Honestly I did not think of that but I would agree that this would be art's last hope; IRL stuff. I am more skeptical of institutional immersive experiences. Those just devolve into selfie hell. But more grass roots stuff...I agree.
Glad you got the LSD thing. For years I cynically say acid as an op. Nope the whole thing backfired so of course the FBI, etc. had to imprison actual dissidents and leave the mush mouth goofballs on the street. Needless to say, even if best case scenario AI becomes like LSD, it will be reclaimed for authoritarian uses (or made illegal lol)
Really glad Chris Jesu mentioned you in a recent comment of his. You’ve got a pretty good bead on what’s going on with the art world and I really appreciate how you articulate it here. It coalesced a lot of separate thoughts I’ve been having with my observations, analyses, and experiences.
It’s funny how certain art institutions feel anachronistic in society now. I’m a classically trained musician, so I’m pretty used to divining the living art practices that working musicians deal in from the necropolitics of the culture industry. Academia should install recruitment centers and start posting banners on their school of music websites and halls that all the band kids interested in a performance degree should know that their programs are designed to pipeline them into the military bands, cuz they’re the only institutional jobs immediately available. It would be more honest than what they instruct performers to be capable of in the abstract or in preparation for elite/grant patronage and municipal orchestra audition cycling, since chamber and solo recital scenes don’t “really” exist outside school.
As with any life and the real art that stems from it, it must live on in the margins of cultural death. Better to keep it alive in the house with friends than not at all. You can only sustain it out into the streets if you’re dedicated, and in the halls if you’re lucky at the moment. Dunno what kind of reckoning it’ll take to revitalize healthy social cultures again, but I suspect it will require a regression and retreat from the internet to some degree.
Hey. Thanks for the comment. So I actually think that now, since there is a huge pro-Palestinian movement that corporate media won't touch (yet) there is potential for many artistic movements away from prying corporations. But the mesoculture needs to return (if you're not sure what
a mesoculture is, i have a whole article about it from two weeks ago). Cheers!