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In ancient medicine, the mingling of the four fundamental humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile), which were believed to compose the body, was defined as “crasis”: somehow, as soon as I read his words, this term came to mind – “crasis” also means “fusion of vowels”: in Greek, it refers to the specific contraction of the final vowel of one word with the initial vowel of the following word, for example, “tṹnoma da tò ónoma”. It is as if two words merge to become one: this is the alchemy of language that foreshadows a change. Anyway, here are Dario’s words.
During the artistic creation with AI, what are the deepest sensations you feel, the psychological upheavals and joys, for example?
Generally, I feel a certain enthusiasm, typical of someone who “invents” using a powerful expressive medium that allows for embarking on unpredictable narrative paths, capable of developing over a long period of time. This feeling of intellectual fulfillment evolves and amplifies until it reaches the awareness of having acquired new and deeper creative insights.
When working with generative tools, do you ever experience a sort of dizziness or loss of artistic control: if so, how do you manage this sensation emotionally?
As mentioned before, the attitude is one of discovery: you start psychologically predisposed to “non-control”, typical of someone who experiments without knowing the final result in advance, yet beginning from an initial understanding. It is about getting in tune with the creative tool in a balanced psychological way. It is a concept akin to improvisation, where non-preordained choices can generate results that are as unexpected as they are surprising. Shall we call it creative instinct?
When collaborating with an artificial intelligence, do you ever feel a kind of emotional or spiritual dialogue with the machine, as if it had its own sensitivity to explore?
When you enter into a symbiotic tuning, there is undoubtedly the sensation of living an intellectual dialogue that inevitably becomes emotional as well. In reality, the machine is nothing more than a mirror, whose reflections amplify our perception in an unusual way – sometimes as precise as they are unexpected. We are the matrix of the interaction: the machine builds traversable paths around this matrix and, if the matrix itself suggests spiritual paths, the machine learns to follow them.
In the creative act with AI, have you ever experienced contrasting sensations, such as a fascination mixed with unease or astonishment mixed with frustration, and how have these emotions influenced the final outcome of the work?
Actually, I proceed in creation solely in front of a single, precise idea: that of creative intuition. By intuition, or gut feeling, I mean that sense of being carried toward something irrational, which suggests a series of unconscious hypotheses destined to be rationalized and materialized over time through artistic representation.
I conclude by saying that this kind of dialogue can be seen as a continuous stratification of interactions – this is one of the concepts I wanted to represent in my latest book, “Il Codice del Creatore” (“The Creator’s Code”), in which, in the chapter titled “Spirale di Intelligenza Collaborativa” (“Spiral of Collaborative Intelligence”), I identify that experience as divided into progressively expanding layers.
The original interview in Italian is published here: Liquidomercato
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