AI Art Networks Enter Museums, Fairs, And Institutions
Every shift like this has worked the same way. The Impressionists won the museums when their supporters — collectors, dealers, sympathetic critics — took over the institutions. The same thing is happening now, faster and with broader institutional reach, and with different work being championed.
Mario Klingemann💧💦@quasimondoThese networks aren't staying in their own world. They're moving into museums, fairs, biennales, institutions — funding acquisitions, taking board seats, curating fairs, placing artists into public collections. The slow channels that used to do the filtering are being repopulated by the people who built the new networks.
Whether this is loss or progress depends where you're standing. From inside the old way of doing things, it looks like loss. From inside the new way, it looks like overdue change. We're in the middle of it, and people inside the middle can't see past the horizon. I can't either.
Mario Klingemann💧💦@quasimondoTwenty years from now, museums will remember what these networks tell them to remember. Not because anyone is wrong about what's good, but because historical memory is constituted by whoever occupies the institutional positions that determine it. The new positions are being filled now.