The Liturgy of the Multitude: Art in the Age of AI

The traditional sanctuary of the "original" has collapsed, not by a single iconoclastic blow, but through the relentless erosion of the **aura**. That unique phenomenon of a distance, however close it may be—the singular existence of the artwork in the time and space of its creation—has evaporated. In its place, we find the dawn of a new social democracy of art, where the authority of the "masterpiece" is liquidated in favor of a radical accessibility. All art becomes performative and social.