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"By studying the visual results along the process, our role as a designer became one of a curator." And this is why I'm uninterested in ML-based art generation
by cheschire 4y ago
"By studying the visual results along the process, our role as a designer became one of a curator."
And this is why I'm uninterested in ML-based art generation. I've never celebrated the life of the person who sets up an exhibit at MOMA.
ML is great for hotel or office art. It fills a void, but it's like eating hot dogs instead of a top-end steak. You have no idea what's in it, it's just empty calories, and there's no personality of a chef involved.
- lazzlazzlazz 4y agoYour thinking — that the curator isn't important, and the artist is the one worthy of celebration — makes sense when the bottleneck is in creating and not curating. But we are entering a new period where the bottleneck will be curation. Young people will celebrate brilliant curators and other kinds of creative meta artists. It is important to understand the reasons for why we value things a given way, instead of what you are doing which is just extending the status quo thinking uncritically.
- cheschire 4y agoWhen fast food made access to warm savory flavors cheap and near-instant, did sit-down restaurants become an archaic concept? I feel insulted by your assertion that I'm thinking uncritically.
- sublinear 4y agoHow does one curate an uninspired infinity of junk? Is generated art really much of an improvement over watching a binary counter tick away in the hopes it lands on an interesting picture? In art, the process is just as important as the result... maybe more so.
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoYou can totally create something impressive by combining the best junk, though. Found art sculptures are already a thing.
- injidup 4y agoDJ culture ist almost exactly that. Curation over creation.
- majormajor 4y agoArguably someone like Anna Wintour is already your celebrated brilliant curator. Or Criterion. If you want to stretch it, many photographers - the scene was already there, they just chose the framing. We already entered the era of "more art than you know what to do with" with recorded mass media and (especially) the internet.
- monkpit 4y agoWhy can’t an AI be the curator too?
- lazzlazzlazz 4y agoIt will be! No doubt.
- moritonal 4y agoAt the basic level the artist chooses what to include and what to exclude from their base? Similar surely to the curator?