“a blueprint for critical resistance and aesthetic defiance in the face of digital capitalism and a rising new age”    — Laila Shereen Sakr/ VJ Um Amel

Fear of the ‘machine artist’ reflects a deep cultural anxiety about industrialization, shaped by unresolved conflicts over automation and its potential to supplant human artists. Automated machinery represents both a technical development and a social paradigm that redefines labor, authorship, and creativity itself.