Lionel Mora, 73, conceptual artist and author of the monument in honor of Almada Negreros, speaks with the decency of someone who came from the future: “The vast majority of art produced today is outdated and has no explanation except for the person who does it.”
It may seem like the end of art, but it is just one of the many predicted effects of a new age powered by generative AI that searches for information in multiple repositories, writes poems, draws illustrations or programs that — with minimal or no intervention on our part — are part of humans.
In an interview with the Futuro do Futuro podcast, the global pioneer of robot-generated art argues that humanity is far from imagining what lies ahead – and thus remains unprepared for a future in which machines take the leading role and there is little left for humans to do but enjoy themselves, maybe paint. , they might write, or they might make music—but not with the same artistic impulse as today.
“The idea of authorship does not make sense. We go from being human beings, as creators of things, to becoming people who make things happen,” warns Lionel Mora.
Accustomed to constant criticism and disdain from some artistic circles, Mora is not shy about calling the so-called world of culture a “conservative and reactionary” entity, “promoting the past only when the future falls short every day.”
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Regarding the role of the Ministry of Culture, he dictates the same conclusion he has already predicted for museums and other organizations devoted to art dissemination: “It is an outdated entity, of no use.”
You can hear these and many other statements about what artificial intelligence has in store for us from the most technical and futuristic Portuguese artists in the new season episode of Futuro do Futuro.
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