Beyond the Creative Singularity w Jesse Damiani
In a 1999 interview, David Bowie tries to convince journalist Jeremy Paxman that the Internet is not an incremental innovation, but a sea change in how art is created, distributed, and experienced. “I think we’re actually at the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying,” Bowie says. “It’s not just a tool, it’s an alien lifeform.”
There is a similar sentiment today among proponents of generative AI. But what exactly is newly possible? Will there be new modes of creativity and social dynamics, and what are the impacts and byproducts of such changes? Who will be most affected? To discern signal from noise, these questions push us to assess four categories: automation and creative labor, augmentation and velocity, aesthetics and artistry, and convergence and emergence.
About the Speaker
Jesse Damiani is a writer, curator, and producer who writes about art, media, and emerging technology.
He is Founder and Director of Postreality Labs, a strategy and sensemaking consultancy at the intersection of art, technology, and power.
He is Curator and Director of Simulation Literacies at Nxt Museum; Arts and Culture Advisor for Protocol Labs; and the Host of Adobe’s Taking Shape, a hub for 3D art and design. An Affiliate of the metaLAB at Harvard and Institute for the Future, his writing appears in Adweek, Big Think, Billboard, Entrepreneur, Flash Art, IndieWire, HuffPost, Quartz, The Verge, and WIRED; and syndication in CBS News, CJR, The New Digital Storytelling textbook, and REDEF.
