Mario Klingemann💧💦(@quasimondo):Bummers - the visual retreat has already become trendy? Last week: "So what might Mario Klingemann’s place of retreat look like? A deserted island where he could be alone for a while as an artist, until AI turns even that into a destination for mass tourism? He wants to go where it hurts, but only to the point where it does not become boring. He wants to make inert images. Images that do not have to perform and therefore are not optimized for attention." https://t.co/Cc8gY3XMPU Yesterday:

2026.05.08 09:10

Bummers - the visual retreat has already become trendy? Last week: "So what might Mario Klingemann’s place of retreat look like? A deserted island where he could be alone for a while as an artist, until AI turns even that into a destination for mass tourism? He wants to go where it hurts, but only to the point where it does not become boring. He wants to make inert images. Images that do not have to perform and therefore are not optimized for attention." Yesterday:

Kyle Chayka@chaykak

2026.05.06 17:59

new @NewYorker column on the swing toward lo-fi, messy, human-accident aesthetics in the era of slick, glossy generative AI — to look real you now have to be genuinely sloppy