Week 1-Zine 1
(September 9th-14th)
What is it to think as an artist?
Bentley Horvath-SN: 53605457
VISA_V 110
Proffesor: Manuel Pina-B
TA: Gloria Wong
Sept 2025-December 2025
Week 2- Zine 2
(september 15th-21st)
What is Technology?
Week 3- Zine 3
(september 22nd-28th)
What is Art and What is Technology
Week 4- Zine 4
(september 28th-Oct 5th)
Entanglements of Art and Technology
Week 5- Zine 5
(October 20th-Oct 26th)
Collaboration and Networks
Week 6- Zine 6
(October 20th-Oct 26th)
Creativity, Pattern, Automation
Week 7- Zine 7
(November 3rd-9th)
E-Merging Intelligences
Week 8-Zine 9
(November 17th-25th)
E-merging Existences
Week 9- Zine 9
(November 24th-29th)
Imaginary Futures
Reflection:
What is it to think as an artist in the age of AI?
To think as an artist in the age of AI is to think as an artist whenever one encounters struggle. For as long as there has been art, there have been global conflicts, technologies, and societies that challenge the concept of creativity. Artists. in the age of AI must refuse to quit their craft despite how discouraging the development of this new technology can be. Artists must set the example for the rest of humanity, and refuse to let their human voices be drowned out by the voice of a machine.
How should artists, and any creatives in this matter, relate to these new systems?
Artists should utilize technology as a reference, as inspiration, but never as a backbone for their own critical thinking and personal style. An artist should strive to remember that at the end of the day, a machine is just that, a machine. It can never replace, and can never suffice a human soul.
How to embrace its potentials while being aware of its failures and dangers?
Use AI with caution, and be conscious of not only the insight you wish to gain from it, but also the insight it provides you. Don't use AI as a word of wisdom, or as the blatant truth. One should aim to recognize its failures, its gaps in understanding, and its cost. As humans, we should try to develop new ways to navigate those problems.
How to expand our creativity through the use of these systems?
This is a difficult question to respond to. Throughout the centuries, art has taken inspiration from one setting and one setting only, the world. To attempt to take inspiration from something that is otherworldly, or inhuman, is to risk the integrity of not only art itself, but humanity as a whole.
