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AI Art as Curation

The article argues that AI-generated art is fundamentally an act of curation rather than creation. It explores how artists using AI tools act more like curators or directors by selecting, refining, and guiding outputs, shifting the artistic role from making to choosing and assembling.

Background

- Andy Masley is an artist and educator who previously created a popular series of animated history videos; this post reflects his perspective as someone working at the intersection of art-making and technology education. - The piece argues that generative AI (tools like Midjourney, DALL·E, Stable Diffusion) shifts the artist's role from hands-on maker to "curator" — selecting, refining, and choosing among machine-generated outputs. - This reframing is part of a wider debate in creative communities: is prompting a legitimate artistic skill, or does it bypass the craft and intentionality traditionally associated with art? - Masley suggests that curation itself (e.g., choosing a decisive photographic moment, editing footage, selecting which 1 of 100 takes to keep) has always been a core artistic act — AI just makes it more explicit.

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