Nothing predestined Maxence Belka, who loves “
art and useless things
”, to enroll in a business school and find himself an intern at Zhao Tech, a global digital giant.
For having given schoolboy answers to a supposedly anonymous questionnaire, the young man was fired, but he then joined a course more in harmony with his aspirations: the Institute of Conceptual Arts.
This very selective school has launched into the design of a new art, called
“
immersion”, which, via a computer interface translates the individual's cerebral activity into sounds and images.
Thus, it is direct access to the imagination and aesthetics of a creator which is offered to the public.
What better way to put art back in the forefront in the face of
“
the logic of calculation that governs society
”
?
Isn't art the ultimate defense against the reign of machines and algorithms?
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