The Intersect
The Intersect examines the reciprocal influences of technology and the arts.
Who Gets to Say What Something Is?
Latest issue · No. 90

Who Gets to Say What Something Is?

We outsourced aesthetic judgment to suspicion, and the artist pays the fine.

Last week a Red Bull video crossed my feed. People in Europe build goofy flying machines and launch themselves off a platform into a lake. In this one, an improbable chicken contraption flew half a mile, turned around, and landed on the water. My very first thought was: that has to be AI. I still…

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