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"Technology",
"aesthetics",
"AI",
"algorithm",
"art",
"aura",
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"textContent": "I introduce three “cults of digital aura” in Digital aura and the source of Truth — you can read this without having read it but it will give you more context. Tl;dr audiences judge the authenticity of digital art through distinct lenses of trust and uniqueness. In the Cult of Media, authorship is irrelevant to […]",
"title": "Aura through the Cult of Media: synthetic becomes authentic"
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