About AI.
I am an artist a sculptor and founding director of an arts company VOXLAB
and of an Arts precinct in Perth, Western Australia. Pickle District
My take on futurisms….
This future is of course unknown.
AI will replace jobs that are replicable.
We intrinsically want for that, we idolise and are playing at this like a cat with a toy.
Normal jobs, jobs with tenure will rarify and fade.
As an artist I live well within the ‘precariat zone’.
This is historically the norm, the arts inverse norm.
Let me offer the following insight into:
‘ Life within the soon to be ubiquitous zone’.
Let me start here by suggesting that this can be ‘qualitative’.
In fact, I recommend it.
Rather than an insecure threatening space I would liken it to hunting.
No-one hunts to procure with certainty, ‘to find’ is a value.
From another perspective I would state that the real problems of the future are not energy, or productivity, or economic viability.
They pivot around cultural adaptation.
By this I propose that as the world transforms from information and through the biological age.
That we will function more essentially within a bio-cultural landscape.
The current desirability of meaningful workspace can remain the modulator.
The look of this can evolve but the desire, the physiological drive remains.
I propose that the functionality of arts is expandable into these dimensions.
Welcome to the future.
SURVIVAL
I’ll come back to a few basic modes for survival within ‘precariat-ness’
-to create certainty, it becomes necessary to diversify
– & develop connection across potentials, contacts, and options.
This shapes a constructive strategy, a hunter’s landscape.
Rather than perceiving the future as blobs at the mercy of technology,
I suggest that humans will inevitably morph within choices and specialisations.
What should we study …. everything.
Who should we look to for advice …. everyone.
Jon Denaro
You can contact the Author Jon Denaro at https://www.voxlab.com.au/
FOUNDING DIRECTOR / SCULPTOR
Western Australian Sculptor and Painter Jon creates contemporary metal sculptures often finding inspiration in found objects that play an intricate part in the story of the resulting piece of art.