The Future Of Digital Is Analog: Art And Augmented Reality At Adobe’s Festival Of The Impossible
The 2019 Festival of the Impossible, organized in San Francisco by Adobe, provided a deeply fascinating exploration of art and creativity in the context of human-machine interaction.
In Collectors, by Gabe Barcia-Colombo, two human-looking avatars hang framed on the wall like works of art in a museum. But as you look at them, they look at you with a critical eye before deciding whether you are interesting enough for them to whip out their smartphones, take a picture of you and post it on social media—much the way we do in museums. Their AI weighs a host of aesthetic criteria before rendering its judgement. The role reversal is oddly unsettling, especially if they lose interest in you and turn away without snapping a photo.
“The future of digital is analog” posits Parasnis: new digital technologies will help us bring back the physicality of the experience, make us more present, more aware of our surroundings.
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