Samar | ســـَمَرْ

Artist-theorist-Futurist | Creator of a kaleidoscopic insurgent practice …Quantum Craft™ operating between〰️outside disciplinary cracks↓🌪️

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This week, artists Wafaa Bilal, @mollycrabapple, @FendeVilliers and @Samaritual debate labor, intent, craft and class in contemporary art.

Moderated by @Nadir_Nahdi.

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This week on the Doha Debates Podcast, we ask: Do we need to rethink contemporary art?

Featuring Wafaa Bilal, @mollycrabapple, @FendeVilliers and @Samaritual. Moderated by @Nadir_Nahdi.

1:57 Time to rethink contemporary art?
4:59 Contemporary art: more relevant than ever?
5:45 What is the role of the artist?
6:45 Craft, labor and AI
10:32 Wafaa Bilal's viral “Domestic Tension” experiment
21:23 Lasting vs. fleeting art
22:16 Contemporary art institutions and the new Left
25:15 "Generative AI is an extraction engine. It is a vampire."
27:16 AI: a problem or just misunderstood?
29:22 Who has the right to define what is or isn’t art?
42:07 Postmodernism, craft and aesthetics
45:43 Is inaccessible art a revolutionary act?
51:09 Bad art: Is capitalism to blame?
1:01:11 Artist’s ego, craft and authorship
1:45:37 Success, tech & cultural preservation
2:03:11 “The ability to create art is divine.”
2:12:34 Experts share their favorite works of art

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The impact of AI feels inescapable. Will it usher in more possibilities or problems for artists? Hear what acclaimed artists @mollycrabapple and @Samaritual have to say.

[Samar | ســـَمَرْ @Samaritual]

@DohaDebates Excited to see this out in the world finally !

[Samar | ســـَمَرْ @Samaritual]

The future of contemporary art is not a tech question.

It's a provenance question.

We got into it 🌪️

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Watch the extended cut for the full debate on contemporary art ➡️ https://t.co/e30tbNBvfb

[Samar | ســـَمَرْ @Samaritual]

El Anatsui makes art from what was discarded and left behind after the crossing.

That's the whole argument….

The episode we filmed on the Future of Contemporary Art in the age of AI is finally out 👀

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On the latest episode of the Doha Debates Podcast, artists Wafaa Bilal, Molly Crabapple, Fen de Villiers and @Samaritual share the works and artists that have struck them the most.

[Samar | ســـَمَرْ @Samaritual]

Tayfurat: طيف specter, spectrum, ghost-light that persists.

Khabrein: knowledge that travels and changes form in transit.

unfolding over the next 9 days on @the_ai_art_mag

https://t.co/m8u3tLjHn1

[Samar | ســـَمَرْ @Samaritual]

https://t.co/lHFSbEZsNp

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The metabolism of futures: what digestion knows that democracy forgot - the thinking behind sunday's event! https://t.co/qhnNVQXPbk

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Where does art live when everything can be generated?
Future Ancestors Radio: Resonance 001 Brooklyn ↔ Beirut. A live session in the form of digital zajal/cypher where sound leads, the body responds, and the room composes together
https://t.co/lHFSbEZsNp

[Samar | ســـَمَرْ @Samaritual]

War. Sand. Survival. And the architecture that forms afterward... Two thresholds for 2026 Read here:

https://t.co/qHkdI9bRx3 via @LinkedIn

[Samar | ســـَمَرْ @Samaritual]

@punicist Very interesting-How can I calculate mine ?

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE: Legendary New Orleans clarinetist Doreen Ketchens serenades her grandson with a beautiful jazz tune 🥹❤️

[Samar | ســـَمَرْ @Samaritual]

My forever jam!

[Lemma the Optimist @DoctorLemma]

In 1989, Technotronic released “Pump Up the Jam,” a house music track that became a huge hit worldwide. It reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK charts in early 1990.

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Fragment 021: Analog Accumulations

A Visual Essay on momentum, cultural generation, and how we find our way back to making when the system feels too loud and the body feels too tired

Image: artifact from my Future Ancestors series: ‘Not Cloud White’ 😉

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@ReginaHarsanyi I’d argue kitsch isn’t the opposite of culture. Kitsch is culture under duress The simulacrum people reach for when their real cosmologies were stripped, looted, or algorithmically flattened

[Samar | ســـَمَرْ @Samaritual]

@ReginaHarsanyi 🎯

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@matdryhurst 😭🫠

[Samar | ســـَمَرْ @Samaritual]

@ReginaHarsanyi Wil this be recorded ?

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What if adornment has always been interface technology?

These Future Ancestors explore what happens when adornment becomes communication hardware. Prosthetics for ecological consciousness. Amplifiers for spiritual practice.