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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