As software, algorithms, non-conscious cognitive agents and cybernetic thinking increasingly shape the world around us, artists need to have a strong grasp of the practical and philosophical implications of this transformation,” Kaganskiy says. “I’m not saying that every artist needs to learn to code, but they should probably read some media theory and software studies texts, maybe even some posthumanist philosophy.”
— Read on news.artnet.com/art-world/art-school-tech-adapt-1742802
I can’t help thinking this reluctance is all about snobbery. It reminds me of the Blight comment re photography and conservatism which I mentioned in a previous post and which might go into my introduction- if not elsewhere in the essay.
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Couldn’t agree more wrt snobbery. I’m picking apart that HC-B quote about his being interested in ‘hunting, not in cooking’ for a chunk of the A3 DIaC essay at the moment.
And Merry Christmas, SJ, while I’m here…
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I look forward to seeing what you write about his comment
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PS – just to add, I think that artistic communities can be guilty of the worst form of exceptionalism ever since it is so often accompanied by dreadful and outrageous levels of hypocrisy.
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