There is a persistent story we tell about technology and art: that one is the enemy of the other. That efficiency corrodes beauty. That the algorithmic mind cannot hold a candle to the human one. I want to offer a different story. --- The history of art is the history of new tools. The camera did not kill painting — it freed it from the burden of documentation and pushed it toward abstraction, emotion, the interior. The electric guitar did not kill music — it created rock and roll, soul, and
