Last week while chatting with 
screwtape in Lambda Moo's sushi 
shop, he mentioned my poetry. 
He hinted that my recent life
hardship was an ingredient to
better poems. 

I then added that, of course in
time of distress, there is more
creativity and in time of war 
and suffering, artists also created
new trend, new genres. The surrealists 
movement came to mind. 

It made me wonder what will 
emerge from our present crisis, 
and as things seems to be getting 
worst, what will be the role of 
the artists in this current collapse. 

Artist have been promised fame
and fortune from distributors 
and 'agents.' The market has 
commodified them, to create 
schwag and disposable items. Always
diminishing the artist profit. 

The internet also opened up the
market for everyone to be an 
artists. Skill and training wasn't
needed much anymore as it became
a social game. Every artist started
to share everything for free in 
order to attract more people. The
social networks saw how it benefited
them, and change the rules of the
algorithm, so again, artists had
to create even more. 

Now that everything is online, 
everything is available for free, 
the AI comes in and digest it
all in one centralized creative brain. 
A sum-up of all the art that ever
existed, to finalize the commodification
of art-you don't need the artists 
anymore. 

So what will the artists become?

For one thing, I hope artists will
all take a more activist stance. 

Art was never a tool for capitalism, 
it often had the posit goal of 
criticizing and going against or
at least bringing injustice to 
the surface. Artists often had the
role of expressing what everyone
felt, but couldn't put it in images,
in words. They were also the ones 
who could tap into their intuitive 
self to foresee the future, warning
us of an impeding doom. 

In the coming years, there will be a lot less 
artists, creative people living 
from their art. We just went through
a golden age of the creative digital
nomad. But with the advent of AI, 
a lot of that economy will disappear. 

If an AI can create what the consumer
wants, at a fraction of the cost, 
the market will shift toward that. 
Of course there will be artists
who interface with the AI, becoming
producer of consumable, but soon 
it will become too easy to interact
with the AI to even need this in-between. 

I wonder if we will see the re-emergence
of the artist-activist, the artist-hacker,
the artist movement  against all the 
bullshit. 

Regrouping and creation of new movements
in response to this new attack toward 
artists and our sanity. I see previous 
art movements being a reaction to 
external forces, like politics and 
technologies, and I hope to see this 
happening again. 

A group of artists fighting for a 
common cause, post-absurdism?