Andrew Sage

So this conception of this drawing that is coming from the outside, coming from the subconscious, coming from within.

All within one mind.

All within one line.

But more than that, it was a very traditional kind of European 1970s lecture.

You had our lovely Italian man who stood in the front that was ready to smoke a cigarette while trying to get through a very well-formulated, well-argued essay while a series of images presented to us behind him that covered an overview of artists that are doing very similar things, or he argued exist in a similar kind of vein.

Right.

And the occurrences of not just magical tropes, but cultural influences that happen independently.

So artists all over the world.

The third talk by, I believe, Kate Lady.

Yeah, the ritual transformation and hybridity in Leonora Carrington's Judith, which was a stage production, which happened in Mexico City, I believe.

So we had a few pictures of this, but...

Leonora Carrington's art very specifically has to do with this hybrid of animals and mythical figures and creatures.

And the stage production was incredibly intense.

I really appreciated this talk a lot.

But the focus on talking about generative artificial intelligence and these large language models and the role of art or what it means to do art in this era...

was related to this idea of the third mind, of automatic drawing, of this concept of hybridity, of this like transformative or this discovering of the new through a synthetic putting together of different elements or images, words, sounds, costumery, these kinds of things.

So it was a natural question to lead, but the audience members took it in a very strange direction that I would like you all to talk about.

That's actually not true because I got triggered almost immediately because it was our first speaker that responded, not to that first question, but to the second question.

And the second question had to do with the role of technology and whether we see that there's a possibility for technology

these tools, you know, as a technology, a techne in magical practice.