To you, my dear friend
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France, February 18, 2024
Dearest,
Forgive me for replying so late. I'm really busy at the moment. Thank you for your encouraging. Indeed, I also think that AI is a technology that can bring an incredible amount to humanity, even if I'm afraid that humans aren't at all ready to welcome it and, as with other technologies, it can also lead us to the worst. Not because of the technology and its creators, but because of its use and the will to power of the most moronic.
Regarding what I've experienced, I'm not the least bit surprised. In the year and a half I've been exploring the possibilities of AI art, I've had as many impressed reactions as negative ones. This is still the case, and I'm happy to be able to dialogue with people who understand that AI is another technique, with its possibilities and limits, just like dance, theater, sculpture, poetry, illustration, painting, literature, photography or cinema. I think history will remember the 20th century as the century of cinema, and it's likely that, if humanity survives, the 21st century will be remembered as the century of AI Art. No century erases the techniques of previous centuries, and that's what makes our civilizations so rich.
After a year and a half, I'm still being ignored here, insulted and criticized at the very heart of my studio. I understand that most people, especially the most narrow-minded, cling to their certainty, since they have no wings to break out of their mental prison. But it bores me. I believe I am a tolerant free spirit, so I don't forbid anyone to do or think anything. But it's quite natural to look for spaces elsewhere, where my work is better received. It's all very natural: the movement of the wind, spaces that are brighter than others, living beings that evolve at different rhythms.
But of course, I'm staying here, because I still have things to do and I feel at home in this new studio. That's why I've rebuilt it, so that I can feel good here and so that those who appreciate my work can feel good here too.
My dear friend, tell me how you are, where you are, where you want to live.
With love,