The Death of the Artist?

The Death of the Artist?

The future of art? Image Credit: Donald Iain Smith/Getty ImagesWhen hip-hop producer Timbaland introduced TaTa, the first AI “artist” signed to his label, it raised standard questions about creativity and the role of machines in art. But TaTa isn’t just a tool or a bot—she’s simultaneously the art and the artist, a recursive synthesis of past and present art/artists trained on archives of human expression. While hip-hop was born from sampling an…