What is post-AI?

Without really having any art school training, I started thinking about what ‘post-AI art’ means relative to ‘postmodern art’, so thought I’d start with the structure of a text on postmodernism. What is post-AI? Post-AI was a reaction against AI. AI and generative art were generally based on idealistic observations around generativity in nature, a futurist vision of agentic life in society, and a belief in unbounded accelerationism. It assumed that certain ultimate universal principles or truths formulated by and centering on ketamine billionaires, could result in empowering creativity in the public at large. AI artists experimented with automation without considering community, adopting a hylomorphic approach in their attempts to impose pure visions on the world, ungrounded in culture or material. While AI art was based on technofuturist/fascist accelerationism, post-AI was born of community, craft and humanism. It challenged the notion that culture could be reduced to statistics.…