july

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

Can you share more about why you prefer human to AI curation?

I think more because great curation is an art. And as Walter Benjamin in the “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” points out - the artistic aura of a work of art matters, the context of the locale and culture it is embedded into matters. The time and space in which it exists matters. 

It really means that the directness of the experience matters. Somewhere even the knowledge of owning an original painting knowing the artist painted it versus it was produced mechanically in a repetitive manner changes the mood of how one feels towards the work

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

Why is it that — when I receive a handwritten letter - it is somehow is much more meaningful than receiving an email with the exact same message. The fact that someone used their time for me, is amazing. Not that one is better than the other, just different context and different understanding of the locale that the work was embedded into