Lowell William Anderson

As a designer during several technological evolutions, I've watched the industry get upended by new tools, watched artists adapt, watched entirely new skills emerge even as other areas wither to nothing.

I want to explore that further. While the debates rage on the ethics of generative AI (see my statement here), I want to see the world as it's been encoded in the models. I want to see how the machine sees the world, see the randomness of it all, and explore what is the changing role of the artist when art becomes a filler, a confection, a commodity to be churned by the trillions.

I also despair at what I see as a plummeting societal attention. People are increasingly uninterested in the physical world, they no longer see. Now, they no longer glance, barely glimpse under the relentless seeking of their thumbs. There is little delight in the commonplace, the mundane. I want to explore that.

How do these two motions intersect? What does it mean to me, as I age, see friends and family die, and realize that the only measure of a person is the love that they've fostered. How does this all fit together? That's what I'm searching for.