 Creating may be something we are only able to do, not something we can describe or understand. For this reason, technology must always play a secondary role to the creation we wish to embody in our preserved records and our preserved documents. It would be better to lose everything we have recorded, and all of our technology, than to suffer even the slightest diminution in our ability to create. https://web.archive.org/web/20010716003132/http://www.archivebuilders.com/aba010.html 4 comments
  @neauoire i'm with leon. Sometimes the mere existence of something is a requisite. A wound string for the bass is otherwise difficult to emulate. It's a bit like living on a boat. A culture needs a lot of oil here, thread there, bubble gum... Ah, you know. My freind Oren used to tease me as I idolized the primacy of poetry (oral!). He said, creative! Have a child! @neauoire i should add, i try to transform things of my own so that the digital bits don't just rot away. Magnetic tape. Paper, copper, constructs, conspiracy theories. I have a gramaphone that can be used to make very shitty recordings on old cds. My goal at the time was to make only one recording at live gigs and give it away. Scratches on plastic that almost no one could play. Fleeting Whispers. |
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@neauoire Those who mourn the end of art brought about by AI may have an economic point. But art as a process of expressing that which is within ourselves will never be replaced, even by the most powerful intelligence.