The last few weeks have been extremely disturbing. As an educator, I get sleepless nights of not being relevant in my next day's classroom or public lecture or an interview or a performance in front of the fractured attention span of the audience whose mind, body, soul spaces are transgressed by the gadgets and zombies of gadgetophrenia. Gadgetophrenia is a symbolism of Gadget led Schizophrenia which alludes us to more of an illusion, hallucination. And then few days back all across LinkedIn, Instagram, I saw the known dancers, academics, thinkers crazily experimenting with their art gestures, body movements of performances, happy and personal moments with the studio Ghibli based AI Tool.
I just could not sleep by seeing the gang rape and its wonderous celebration all across where dancers were happily converting their hard earned dance move to a studio Ghibli AI posture. The moment is being lived more through studio Ghibli for which thirty years of sweat, emotions were silently raped through a bunch of algorithms which are far more perfect than the thirty years of sweat, emotions but that led to so many artists being feel their safety through the Studio Ghibli. I could see how in the last few weeks, our bare foot entry to the studio rooms, feeling safe with the emotions of fellow sound artists, studio engineers, musicians, light man/woman, the tea provider, the tikki giver, the snack provider in between rehearsals during the music video shooting were all taken over by this AI tool. Easily, every single human being collapsed into the world of the hyper punk, cyber reality and started to live through AI Studio Ghibli. Studio Ghibli AI entered our space so surreptitiously but with a bang of celebration virtually almost like a violent gang rape. In exchange we entered the Cyber Space of AI Studio Ghibli. Did this movement and transaction was like a Mephestopheles and Faustian exchange!
Well, this exchange has happened and will continue to happen. This is the reality. But in this exchange process, I strongly feel that we as human beings can also live in a zone of Mephestopheles where it is in between the world of AI Studio Ghibli and our world. We can live somewhere in between. Hence, I go to my classroom, studio room, canvas board or sports spaces with a Robot or AI Consciousness. But at the same time, I dont allow, my bare foot entry into the studio room to be an obituary to AI Studio Ghibli. As this is a crucial time, to write a history which will be written in the future where it will be remembered how we entered the AI Space and how they entered ours. A transgression has started but time has come to be in between and within with a semblance of confluence. Hence, the safety of a studio room bare walk entry after a day of tears, emotions, pain, sorrow, anguish, despair, rage is a space of safety and no such bare foot entry should be taken over by AI Studio Ghibli - only if we want to write the history in a different way.
To experiment, I did try to be in between with the AI and composed a song on my ownself with the support of AI amidst the time when Bollywood's first AI film "Aisha" is getting released. The song can be found at - https://soundcloud.com/user-464461940/anando-written-composed?si=27d264d967304e6c9df43d2d69542535&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing.
But AI also termed me as - "A Friend Afar" in the last line.
That sums up what, why and how we need to write the history and not compromise with our bare foot entries into the studio room, stages, rehearsal rooms while the Paraphernalia, Bonhomie, Schizophrenia, Gang Rape of AI Studio Ghibli takes over our space. Time has come to stay within and in between the two spaces. The faster we do, the greater will be the chance to save the Obituaries of Bare Foot Entries onto the stage and theatre.
Till then, I will continue to enter the studio room, rehearsal room with more bare foot with a renewed conviction and determination! Hence I show the protest screenshot of the image on this blog.