“Unscrapable” Art - Come On and Touch Me, Babe

There is no “back” to digital art. But there is to the Mona Lisa. You’re looking at it.

Art, for all of the technical advancements as of late, has become trapped in flat light on a computer monitor (or phone).

There’s much hysteria by artists that their art is being stolen by A.I. algorithms and thrown without permission into the galaxy-sized basket that is the dataset being used to generate new pieces of art.

Don’t want to be scrapeable? Make a central feature of your art tactile.

“You had to be there” to see your art.

For all of software’s technical prowess, it’s locked in the prison of pixels.

It has one fixed lighting scenario… glow.

It has no sensuality.

I love it. I’ve made a living looking at pixels.

But if I wanted to live unabated in my lathery art, I’d do what all digital porn can’t…

Touch it.