Dear reader,
This time, we’re thinking about disruption—the beauty of breaking patterns, shaking off the dust and letting something unexpected in.
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Nastassja & Christian
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Right now, cinemas are showing A Complete Unknown—a new film about Bob Dylan. One of its key scenes recreates a moment that split music history in two: Dylan stepping onstage at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 with an electric guitar.
Three songs. One band.
A wall of sound that shocked the folk world.
Some called it betrayal. Others called it the future. Either way, something shifted that night.
Dylan didn’t just plug in an instrument—he disrupted an entire culture. Folk purists were furious. But Dylan understood something deeper: tradition without transformation becomes dead weight. He didn’t abandon the past; he electrified it.
That guitar? That moment?
It’s not so different from what AI is today.
A tool. A provocation.
A way to challenge what’s expected and drag it—screaming, maybe—into a new context.
DUST OFF THE FAMILIAR
Art, at its best, wipes away the dust of the everyday. It cracks the surface of what we think we know. But you can’t do that by gently rearranging what’s already there. You either leave things exactly as they are—intact, untouched, sacred—or you break them open and see what else they could become.
The in-between, the half-change, the comfortable remix? That’s where things go to die.
We believe in pushing. In experimenting. In tension.
Not for the sake of being “new,” but because some structures need to be shaken. Because repetition without reflection is just sleepwalking.
PLAYING WITH FIRE
AI, like that guitar, is a tool. It doesn’t make the work good or bad. It doesn’t carry meaning on its own. It’s what you do with it.
You can copy. You can repeat.
Or you can distort, bend, break, reimagine.
You can let it surprise you. You can use it to mess things up—on purpose.
To us, that’s the point:
Not to make things cleaner or faster or more efficient—
But to make them strange again.
SELECTED
Tabor Robak creates incredibly detailed digital worlds that blend gaming aesthetics, CGI, and contemporary digital culture. What fascinates us about Robak is how effortlessly he mixes hyperrealism with virtual elements, making it hard to tell where reality ends and digital fantasy begins. His work feels like a reflection of how technology shapes our lives—both playful and thought-provoking. We’re inspired by his fresh take on digital art and how he pushes the boundaries of visual storytelling.
*In SELECTED, we feature artists and works that inspire and shape our perspective.
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