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The memes write themselves
When you're flying to Greece, in a few days, and the USA starts a war with Iran, which responds by bombing Cyprus and it's like,
> Dear Iran,
>
> Please do not bomb Athens. I have vacation. I have wa...
we've fought the Persians before, in even worse odds. We will be fine
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I get the point. If intention alone made the ready-made art in the era of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, then it's hard to suddenly argue that prompting an AI isn't also a conceptual act. That said...
Good point, and you're right that Duchamp and Warhol were reacting against something specific, not removing craft wholesale. I'd give them that.
But I'm not sure the current moment is a genuine reassertion of craft. It looks more like a convenient one. The same institutions that spent decades rewarding concept over skill are now rediscovering the value of "embodied practice" — precisely when a machine can do the conceptual part without them.
If craft mattered to them in 2015, I'd call it a pendulum. In 2026, right when AI makes their position redundant? Can we still afford to be so charitable to institutions?
But I'm not sure the current moment is a genuine reassertion of craft. It looks more like a convenient one. The same institutions that spent decades rewarding concept over skill are now rediscovering the value of "embodied practice" — precisely when a machine can do the conceptual part without them.
If craft mattered to them in 2015, I'd call it a pendulum. In 2026, right when AI makes their position redundant? Can we still afford to be so charitable to institutions?
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When Duchamp put a urinal in a gallery in 1917, the art world called it genius. It doesn't matter what the object is, they said. What matters is the intention of the artist.
When Warhol silkscreened a Campbell's soup can, same argument. He didn't design it. He pointed at something that already existed and said "this is art now." The galleries agreed. The collectors agreed. For a century, the ready-made was canon.
Craft didn't matter. The hand didn't matter. Only the intention.
Now someone types a prompt into an AI, and suddenly the hand matters again. Suddenly we care about where the material came from. Suddenly craft is sacred.
The same cabal that spent a hundred years telling us a urinal is art now wants to gatekeep what counts as creation. They don't get to change the rules because the technology made their philosophy uncomfortable.
I never had sympathies for the ready-made. I thought removing craft from art was a mistake. But at least I was consistent.
They weren't. And that tells you everything about what they were actually protecting.
It was never about art. Ask yourself what it was about, and the answer writes itself.
#AI #Art #Branding
When Warhol silkscreened a Campbell's soup can, same argument. He didn't design it. He pointed at something that already existed and said "this is art now." The galleries agreed. The collectors agreed. For a century, the ready-made was canon.
Craft didn't matter. The hand didn't matter. Only the intention.
Now someone types a prompt into an AI, and suddenly the hand matters again. Suddenly we care about where the material came from. Suddenly craft is sacred.
The same cabal that spent a hundred years telling us a urinal is art now wants to gatekeep what counts as creation. They don't get to change the rules because the technology made their philosophy uncomfortable.
I never had sympathies for the ready-made. I thought removing craft from art was a mistake. But at least I was consistent.
They weren't. And that tells you everything about what they were actually protecting.
It was never about art. Ask yourself what it was about, and the answer writes itself.
#AI #Art #Branding
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Hanging out on Nostr for the first time since Claude is down. Good to be here #introductions
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