Web3, AI, and the Future of Art

The future of creative practice may lie in our ability to adapt and incorporate emerging technologies. The debate around AI centres on whether it is a transformative collaborator, that expands human potential, providing unique opportunities to experiment, iterate, and produce work that was previously unimaginable, or a mimic challenging current standards of ownership and IP, meaning, and the very essence of creativity.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Pablo Picasso

The fear has sometimes been expressed that photography would in time entirely supersede the art of painting. Some people seem to think that when the process of taking photographs in colors (sic) has been perfected and made common enough, the painter will have nothing more to do.

Henrietta Clopath, 1901