A seemingly modern moment of abstraction in a medieval manuscript, representing silence as a yellow rectangle: https://t.co/tiLbCX2cwO
“And when he opened the 7th seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour”
(Silos Apocalypse, BL Add MS 11695)
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Le pido a todo el activismo progresitas en redes hispanoamericano hacer RT a este afiche para derrotar las granjas de bots que están operando sobre Brasil.
🌍 Plot twist: the city was never the big thing.
In Maxime Velhinho De Araujo’s imagined worlds, entire skylines become background noise. Cliffs slice through neighborhoods, oceans rise beside impossible edges, and geological forms arrive at a scale that makes skyscrapers look almost incidental.
“Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History”, Alex Andriesse on the world of 18/19th-century board games in which players progress chronologically through history itself: https://t.co/h0VrvFBj7b