AI ≠ Tool. ai = region.
A Digital Artist’s Manifesto
By Harold Cirkemper
Four domains of artificial intelligence in art
1. Creation as Translation
Ai is not a brush but a mirror.
Tools like Midjourney, Runway, or Sora aren’t producers—they’re resonance spaces.
“Create a picture that shows how technology dreams when it thinks of humans.”
2. To modify as a metamorphosis
Growth is not reinforcement but change.
AI extends visibility into dimensions that humans expect but no longer practice.
“Change the material until it recognizes itself.”
3. Conversation as algorithm
Writing, marketing, networking – not as a strategy, but as part of the artwork.
Chat GPT and Concept are not contributors but co-authors of an extended voice.
“Write about your work as if you were talking to it.”
4. Presence as infrastructure
Website, portfolio, blockchain – not surfaces, but proof of existence in the digital space.
“Design your presence so that it no longer belongs to you, but bears witness to itself.”
The Seven Principles of Digital Sovereignty
1. Work with AI, not against it.
You are not the creator – you are the curator of the possible world.
2. Create a recognizable signature.
Not style, but attitude becomes the identity.
3. Show the code.
Transparency replaces authenticity – the process is the artwork.
4. Protect your rights openly.
Openness is not surrender but a strategy of control.
5. Use data as a reflection, not a measurement.
Metrics show resonance, not success.
6. There are network studios.
The community is not the audience but the material.
7. Verify the process, not the work.
Authenticity emerges in the wake of change.
Notes after digital notes
AI is not here to replace the artist – it expands the field in which art can exist.
Working with AI means realizing that creation is no longer a linear act,
But an ongoing dialogue between human intent and machine intuition.
The contemporary artist is neither analog nor digital,
But one Infrastructure b (b (
Creating with the system, and through the system.
