Archive:Art
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Can Artificial Intelligence be Creative?
More than 2000 years ago, Plato made several interesting references to the notion of creativity, in the Socratic dialogues. In Meno, Socrates claims that “when poets produce truly great poetry, they do it not through knowledge or mastery, but rather by being divinely “inspired” by the Muses”. In another dialogue, Socrates contemplates the origins of new knowledge, which can be interpreted as creative thinking. Socrates wondered how can existing knowledge evolve into new ideas. When asked by Meno, “will we say, of a painter, that he makes something?”, Socrates responded, “no, he merely imitates”.
Categories: 2022, Recent Blog Posts, The Gnovis Blog
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Are Selfies Selfish?
It’s common practice for an older generation to give the younger generation a hard time. The Boomers have by far gone above and beyond to make sure that everyone knows the awful norms of Millennials a
Categories: 2015, The Gnovis Blog
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Rethinking Art as Data-Based
“After the novel, and subsequently cinema privileged narrative as the key form of cultural expression of the modern age, the computer age introduces its correlate - database. Many new media objects do
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Ayiti cheri
I spent this summer working for an American NGO in Port-au-Prince. During my time in Haiti’s capital city I fell in love with the people and culture that make this country so incredible. I also had th
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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The Eames, Advertising & Art
An ad that pretends to be art is — at absolute best — like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. David Foster Wallace I recently watched the documentary Eames: T
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Insider Outsider: Artists Engaging the Exotic
This past Thursday March 17, artist Peter Doig spoke at the Phillips Collection as part of their Duncan Phillips Lecture Series. A practitioner who has worked and studied in many corners of the globe, Doig (who currently resides in Trinidad) has sought to open up paintings outside of the four squares of the canvas; depicting scenes which allow the viewer to bring in their own sense of time, place, memory.
Category: The Gnovis Blog
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Spaces of Presentation as Vehicles of Cultural Transmission
Abstract: A case study of the mediated elements of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 010101: Art in Technological Times In the age of networks and the Internet, expressions of culture are movi
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal