from  a  mainframe  to  a  piece  of  glass

five decades of digital art (excerpt)

Catharina E. Santasilia in conversation with David Em

Anthropologist Catharina E. Santasilia interviews artist David Em about his fifty-year journey in the field of digital art, from his work in 1975 with some of the earliest color pixels to his current explorations of generative AI.

​In this excerpt, Em discusses his thoughts about AI.

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