{ Blind Self Portrait Machine }: a collaboration between Kyle McDonald and Matt Mets.

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What does it mean to paint a painting when you can take a photo, to draw a picture when a machine can do it for you? If it isn’t for capturing realism — nor even for altering realism, as “machines” can do both of these better — what is there for art to accomplish? When non-sentient or semi-sentient things gain the ability to do what was once reserved for “special” humans with “talent” and years of practice, gain the ability not only to copy but to imagine (imagine that!) how will it transform how we create and what we need or expect to gain from creation?