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Will more humans use ai for production? Will the ora of an artist be lost due to AI or not? Will mass production change the ora of the artist’s work?
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin’s essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” delves into the profound shifts brought about by mechanical reproduction technologies like photography and film. While not explicitly focused on dangers to society, Benjamin’s work raises concerns. It highlights the diminishing of art’s unique aura and authenticity, potentially reducing it to mere commodities. There’s also a suggestion that mechanical reproduction can be used for propaganda and manipulation, impacting public perception. Cultural authenticity may erode as mass-produced images spread, and there’s a risk of passive cultural consumption leading to alienation. These concerns prompt readers to contemplate the complex transformations in art, culture, and society in the face of advancing technology.
Robotics and Art, Computationalism and Embodiment. Simon Penny
“The challenge to digital art is to give up the implicit Cartesianism in the fictions of disembodied information, and to grapple with materiality and embodiment again. In order to make way where previous agendas ran afoul, well informed robotic art research on this side of Y2K must be cognizant of the collapse of computationalist constructs of AI which are predicated upon a fictitious division between mind and body, information and matter, software and hardware”.
Virtual Art From Illusion to Immersion
“It should not be forgotten that powerful economic interests are behind this technology. Genetic engineering and transgenic organisms will play a greater role in our lives in the future, perhaps even an integral one.
Perhaps to be human will mean, at some future point in time, that the human genome is not a constraint but a starting point.
Transgenic robotics, for the creation of biotech hybrids, is beginning to take on an outline; as yet in the form of images, but perhaps soon to cross over into the material sphere”.
Hyperreality: JEAN BAUDRILLARD