“The False Sense That Our Opinion Matters…”
Maestro Nayden Todorov is a world-class musician, but also an erudite man with a broad outlook and a distinctive view of technology and the way it changes us. Why does he believe our constant rush is a disease we must fight? How is the digital world pulling us away from our humanity, and why is art the only salvation? How did the maestro go 12 years without setting foot in an opera house, horrified by his first encounter with one? And why does he often run an experiment, going to an online forum to defend two opposite points of view in an attempt to escape the filter bubble?
02Can Algorithms Make Art? 15 Viewpoints That Matter
Can algorithms create? Is artificial intelligence a tool or an author? Could AI give birth to the arts of the future, or has creating already become a pointless pursuit? What will we do when its works in every field become indistinguishable from ours? For three years now, I have been collecting viewpoints on this site about the big questions of today's technological day. I believe it is vital to bring more and different voices into the discussions on important topics, and art and creativity is unquestionably one of them. Here are 15 of the most interesting and substantial opinions I have gathered in that time. Do the words of tech people, writers, artists, clergymen and… tomcats contradict each other, or do they complement one another?
03Digital Stories Wins Another Web Report Award
Digital Stories has earned impressive recognition at the sixth edition of the Web Report journalism awards, which in recent years has established itself as the leading and most prestigious journalism competition in Bulgaria. This year, Georgi Karamanev and Digital Stories won in the Art and Culture category, among 185 journalists competing across six categories, for the experiment “‘Sometimes I’ll Come…’: How AI Painted 10 Classic Poems.” The award means all the more because it makes Digital Stories a winner for the third year running!
