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The medium (film) maybe adapted to how we see. Nowadays it might be adapting to how we hold the thing we see through.
"If the meaning of the words "machine" and "think" are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, "Can machines think?" is to be sought in a statistical survey such as a Gallup poll. But this is absurd. Instead of attempting such a definition I shall replace the question by another"
I never felt too positive about piling up of money for years/decades to donate it later instead of distributing it among the people in the organization now.
Sure, if you believe in an impactful plan that needs lots of money. But even then I could see arguments against it.
I see art as experience that stands out from a daily experience because of its intensity and refinement. And work of art as the process of creation of the art product.
Usually, context around the art product is an important part of experience. So if we remove the object out of its context (city, creation, people, usage of it if it is a building for example..) and transport it globally to some museum the art is diminished. Sure we can write stuff next to the art product but it is not the same. What you can directly experience is just an observation of the craftsmanship, other things you have to imagine.
So if you were around the folks who are creating algorithms for computer generated art you would experience the end product much more intensely since you would directly experience the process of refinement, context, motivations and so on.