Who is the artist?
Holding a brush?
A pressing wire with trembling fingers?
Breathing in a basin’s headquarters?
This question has always wandered in the air. Still, in our time, where artificial intelligence is a part of the creative process, the answer seems less sure.
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The meaning of being an artist
For centuries, we imagined the artist as a creative intelligence – some person who shaped vision, emotions, rebellion. The artist was the one who dared to show what others could not see.
But if a machine can produce an image or chord that flares us in the same way, then what? Is the machine an artist, or is only a tool in disguise?
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A dialogue, not enmity
The question may not be human or machine.
The machine never creates in isolation – it operates within the determined frame according to human intentions. But man is still not alone. Our imagination now brushes against the algorithm, and their random pin changes its consequences in the ways we do not always expect.
This is not an enmity, but a conversation. A strange pair in which the human will and the machine play together, and producing results can not reach their own.
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Who gets the decision?
Perhaps the real answer is not in the maker but in the viewer.
When we have to face art – whether it is painted with oils or by code – what is most important is not original but resonance.
If it moves us, if it bothers us, if it stops us – then it speaks. And maybe it’s enough.
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On the headquarters of Basoon “artists”, just brushes in their hands, toes on the wires, or breathing on the breath, may already feel very tight in the AI time. We may need new words, new honors for them. The physical process of performing art will always be valuable, and no machine can reduce its cost.
Still, when the human brain is mixed with the machine, something changes – not itself, but we think about it. The way we feel and explain the art is beginning to change.
This vast circle – what I call cognition art – is something I will find in another article.