Working for someone else might seem difficult, but is it more difficult to work for yourself?
Category: Making
A race to the bottom
What’s at the end of a race to the bottom?
An act of reduction
When a sauce is reduced, there is less of it, but the flavours are intensified. What does this mean for what else we make?
Feeding from a different trough
If we’re all eating from the same trough, surely what comes out the other end is the same, too?
A bunch of potatoes
If a monoculture of potatoes makes crops less resilient, what does it mean for a monoculture of illustration?
An act of defiance
Is there are point to making anything when computers (or someone else) already has?
Watch to the end
Are we complicit in providing ‘addictive’ content, dressed up as ‘art’ or ‘good marketing’?
The secondary job
Am I a software designer who practices art ‘on the side’ or is it the other way around?
Artificial intelligence and art
Are artists under threat from generative artificial intelligence? Or is the ‘competition’ we see just misunderstood?
Like a machine
Should artists aspire for robotic-like accurate and consistency like those who are the best in their sport?