Have learned to appreciate misspellings and bad sentence construction in student essays as a fingerprint of the human thinking that went into writing it. Which is nice but also kind of messed up tbh
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I gotta admit that this is something I’ve been leaning into in my recent artworks, too. “Sloppiness” of human craft, in pieces designed to examine humanness. Imprecision. Loose associations. Awkward emotional calibration. Noise leaking from the cracks of rigid structures. Etc.
at the same time I worry that there's an erasure of *skilled* craft where there is a distinction between intentionality and 'happy accidents.' particularly in the case of practices that can have very serious (potentially even deadly) consequences if one isn't fully competent/trained in their craft.
Yes I think there’s an important distinction! I never suggest my practice is universal. And craft still matters. But in addressing technology using digital art, the encroachment of AI puts forth a different set of rules that I, at least, consider “worth breaking.”
I totally get it! And your/such distinctions are helpful and serve to articulate AI specific aesthetics and ethics/rules that are highly emergent and the kinds of transgressive potential you're talking about that helps expose their political compatabilies (and maybe even their benefactors).
Been thinking about this a lot. I catch typos after I publish my Substack essays and more often than not now I leave them, and not JUST because of laziness.
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