Brendan Dawes is a brilliant multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and technologist. Just one of his many many many creative projects is working on the incredible Eno documentary (directed by one of my all-time favorite filmmakers, Gary Hustwit). Brendan created the technology so that the film is different every time it's viewed. Which, C'MON. Creative generative systems for a generative film about a generative artist. Freaking incredible.
I was already thinking about Brendan a lot as we enter the creative infinite, so when I saw his name in the Eno credits, I literally screamed and reached out to him immediately. Brendan and I had a wonderful conversation about creativity, curiosity, and what it actually means to thrive as a maker right now. Brendan beautifully explains the importance at staying on the event horizon of your knowledge, why craft+judgement+people+time is the formula for escaping AI's average output, and what Brian Eno figured out about technology that so many creative professionals are still struggling with.
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