26/11/2024
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CYFEST 16 | Learning
Lev Manovich
The Future of Art
Nov 30
12:00 PM (Yerevan), 5:00 PM (Seoul), 3:00 AM (New York)
Online
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82187786580
Is art making still meaningful or even necessary when AI can do it as well as or better than humans? Perhaps this type of human behavior has fulfilled its function in our cognitive and social evolution. As a result, it may gradually fade from our lives, replaced by new activities we can’t yet imagine. Although we may have difficulty imagining this new world today, it is logically conceivable given AI’s rapid progress.
This potential transformation will not be without precedent in art history. Consider how modern art transformed between 1860s, 1910s, and 1960s. Abstract art, unimaginable in 1860, emerged by 1913. Installation, performance, land art, and multimedia, inconceivable in 1913, emerged in the 1960s. Given these dramatic shifts in what constitutes “art” and how it’s created, another major transformation in coming decades is entirely plausible.
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