𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Why would a culture obsessed with authenticity view endless synthetic media as anything more than a fad curiosity 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 29/06/2026AI art is already saddled with negative associations it needs to do more than replicate what’s already doable by hand. I get the point of automation is to expedite production but productivity is not a compelling reason for art 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I have recently seen a lot of: - media startups using AI to replicate traditional film and animation aesthetics - painters using AI to make paintings that look basically the same as their pre-AI work 130 3
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Using AI to create visual artifacts indistinguishable from traditional media aesthetics really misses its potential. I don’t want to see more of the same, more quickly. I want to see things I’ve never seen before 110 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Technically impressive yes but I know of very few young people who think AI is “cool” in the rock n’ roll sense which seems bad for a new tech attempting to intervene in every aspect of culture 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Most people can’t distinguish diamonds from cubic zirconia. Therefore real and fake diamonds should be valued equally. Do I understand this correctly? 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Too AI-critical for TwitterX not AI-critical enough for Bsky 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Microblogging sites should have a “notifications silenced” status like iMessage so people know you won’t be replying quickly 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 04/05/2026One thing the PalmPilot got right was the stylus. These finger swipe touch UIs are killing my hands 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Wishful thinking but I’d like to see more critical curiosity in the online discourse. Skeptical experimenting while acknowledging systemic problems. Less boosterism. More in-between 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 03/05/2026People on social media work themselves into rigid anti-AI (or pro-AI) positions, making it hard to publicly admit to any benefits (or harms) I don’t think this matches peoples’ actual AI use which is somewhere between total refusal and enthusiastic adoption 100 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Highly subjective territory here but the process of generating many outputs mediated by language then selecting and editing is enough to affect my focus Whereas when painting I usually think of and plan the image beforehand and each small gesture builds toward that without much trial-and-error 110 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 03/05/2026(posted that right before getting on a 5 hour flight) Indeterminate output can also be part of non-AI generative art, and manual photography to some extent, but those media have a degree of surprise I typically find exciting rather than frustrating 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Not anti AI art but I will say I can easily enter a 4+ hour flow state while painting that would never happen working with AI tools The roulette aspect of prompting (which is part of its gambling-like appeal) frustrates each gesture from building toward a cohesive whole 130 3
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I like this 1980s Kim Gordon quote to partly explain why AI wont supplant human art: “People pay to see others believe in themselves” Already seeing increased cultural cachet of handmade over automatic. An expression of “faith in ourselves,” as Miyazaki put it after the AI demo 040 4
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 27/02/2026AI will make everyone a filmmaker the same way VHS did in the 80s, digital camcorders in the 00s, iPhones in the 10s 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Care less about what is new and more about what is true 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Every painter can be an ai artist but not every ai artist can be a painter 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 10/11/2025There’s always a sprinkle of dust in my studio I have to wrap my paintings in Saran 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Again, go look at early CGI ads and tell me they look better than today’s slop 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 07/11/2025“…every design choice expresses a vision of humanity.” 040 4
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Painting of my girlfriend’s dog I made for her birthday 030 3
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 14/09/2025AI artists who valorize custom or ‘handcrafted’ aspects of image generation (training your own model on your own data instead of using ‘off-the-shelf’ models) mirror the valorization of ‘hands-on’ work that motivates anti-AI criticism of AI art 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 10/08/2025AI art boosters who say “aesthetic taste is the new artistic skill” undercut themselves by downplaying the skill required to make AI art in good taste (very difficult) 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Haha thanks! If there is a “But” it’s that we’re affected by govt policies. Uncertain times for academia overall 020 2
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Plus an academic and intellectual work culture with “industry-style” WLB and benefits. Hard to imagine much better 140 4
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 09/08/2025I really enjoy my job. Very lucky to come across a gig that combines arts & culture, design & tech, humanities & engineering. Rare find 150 5
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 22/07/2025TIL Kristen Stewart has an Erdős–Bacon number of 7 after she co-authored an AI paper 000 0
