“Everything I Do Has the Smell of Digital”: Lorna Mills on Her Art

Eichhorn uses the potent term “content capital”—a riff on Pierre Bourdieu’s “cultural capital”—to describe the way in which a fluency in posting online can determine the success, or even the existence, of an artist’s work.

“Cultural producers who, in the past, may have focused on writing books or producing films or making art must now also spend con... See more

This is peak Lifestyle. Easier than ever to launch a brand. More goods than ever. Software-enabled, integrated supply chain driven business models. An explosion of online social media cultures. These elements have become omnipresent, splashed across our lives like the patterned splotches of a magic eye book. Stare long enough, and you begin to see ... See more

she doesn’t identify as firmly anti-AI and can’t say artificial intelligence will never make its way into her artwork. AI-generated images as they currently stand, however, don’t impress her.

“They all kind of look greasy to me, like they’ve been dipped in oil,” she said. “People will get tired of seeing shiny images.”