AI and the Arts
It’s a tool. The creativity still lies in how you use it and how much culture, art and information you have ingested over the years. Our brains are the original large language models."
Emily Yang, Co-founder and artist, Shibuya. film
Monocle, April 2025
“Models force you to edit your work. With a computer, you can make objects as big or as small as you want. But with models, you actually have to make decisions.”
Architect Giancarlo Valle
Monocle, April 2025
“If we must live in a multi-order world, we need to imagine it as a mesh of relations, where everyone and everything matter, and their futures must not be dictated by the big powers. It is time to rethink how we govern and are governed today.”
ELENA KOROSTELEVA
Professor of Politics and Global Sustainable Development
Monocle, April 2025
“Incorporating art, design and culture into co-living spaces can help residents to feel rooted and inspired. They are no longer just looking for a place to live; they want to belong.”
Fang Low Figment, Singapore
Monocle March 2025
Style and substance both matter, remember. To think otherwise is to underestimate people and condemn our many-hued world to miserly monochrome.
Josh Fehnert Monocle’s editor. Monocle Minute March 2025
Sisyphean
Denoting or relating to a task that can never be completed
Rather than helping humans, fully automated objects actually limit our capacity to respond. I like to interact with life, with the world.
watchmaker David Rodríguez
Galicia, Spain
Monocle December 2024
If you were told you had six months to live, whose hand would you want to hold.
Nigel Latta
Cicero wrote, “To be ignorant of what came before you is to remain forever a child.”
“I dream of never being called resilient again in my life. I’m exhausted by strength. I want support. I want softness. I want ease. I want to be amongst kin. Not patted on the back for how well I take a hit. Or for how many.”
Poet Zandashé l’Orelia Brown
