The Future of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence -- Futurism and the Humanities

Last week, I was in San Francisco's Mission District, betwixt testing Prisma filters on my photos, and enjoying the fine cuisine, when I noticed an actual painting of the Golden Gate Bridge on the wall. "It's like Prisma in real life," I reacted. In today's technology-fueled hyper-sensualized world, one of the many symptoms is a blurring of the line between art and design. Design is function-oriented, and though some readily fetishize consumer electronics as art objects, the bounds of design are neatly wrapped in utility. Art, on the other hand, is characterized by an effort that redefines the confines of knowledge with a particular emphasis on questioning the boundaries of emotions, politics, and society.