The Why of AI
Why so much itch and twitch over AI and Art?
At every turning point in art history, the new and unexpected have aroused emotions from dismay to horror. Matisse was called a savage and Impressionism toxic to the eye. It took 150 years for photography to be accepted as fine art. R. Mutt declared to the world that a urinal could be a work of art, when reimagined by an artist. That urinal, after being roundly rejected for exhibition, was almost destroyed until another artist saved it. Thus was born a new kind of art called Readymades. Wouldn't you love to own it today and see it bring millions at auction?
Ansel Adams' trees were photographed by others: do they own part of his photos? Does that make his unoriginal? Putting it another way, anyone can take a photo, but not everyone is Ansel Adams. The artist's craftsmanship, trained eye, passion for a kind of visual truth, and desire to communicate are paramount.
I have used words as art tools for almost half a century, and am known for making up new words. I started decades ago with Zoberflux, a series in which all the images began with the letter Z to indicate the end of visualization as we had known it. Recently Krepildockerschpe has aroused some fascinating responses.
In 33 books of digital imaging and poetry, my words do not illustrate the images, the images do not explain the words. The borders between image and word have been erased. Today species borders are being erased as we re-examine our identity as human beings. Are we machines? Are AI bots human? The answers will be hotly debated for decades or more by jurists, philosophers, biologists and technologists.
Everything I do is an original because I am an original.
c. Corinne Whitaker 2025 and always
Note: these viewpoints were originally written in a letter to an art museum to ease their concerns. Computers do not create art. Artists create art. The mouse is no more nor less than a baked potato, until an artist uses it to give voice to a vision.
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