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I think this might be the first, and perhaps the only, project of its kind online/offline.

What if making art did not begin with a blank canvas, specialist software or the confidence to call yourself an artist?

What if it began with one word?

Last week, I launched CoGen Art, a collaborative generative-art experience built around a simple idea: creativity becomes more interesting when we pass it on.

With CoGen Art, you choose a word, a mood, a colour palette and a composition style. The website turns those choices into an original visual piece. You can then share it, invite somebody else to continue it, or follow the branches as the artwork develops through different people and interpretations.

There is no intimidating canvas and no complicated creative software to learn. You make a few meaningful choices, and something new begins.

An invitation to make the first move

CoGen Art is now open, and the next branch begins with whoever arrives next.

Choose a word that matters to you today. Turn it into a piece. Share it with somebody whose perspective you value, and ask them to take it somewhere you would not.

Create your first CoGen Art piece

Or begin by exploring what other people have already made:

Explore the CoGen Art public gallery

Art does not always need to start with expertise. Sometimes it just needs a feeling, a first choice and another person willing to respond.

Let’s see what we make together.

My concern as I learn more about this story …

The issue didn’t simply remain: “This guy, Jason Arday, plagiarised and lied”. The right-wing cult, sections of the media, and racists deliberately turned it into something much bigger – a supposed indictment of DEI itself. And that matters.

When stories like this are deliberately turned and twisted into a DEI issue, those behind the attack are not simply seeking accountability for one individual. They are also seeking to diminish the accomplishments of non-white people who have reached positions of prominence, particularly in fields outside sport and entertainment.

The broader objective is to plant doubt in sections of society’s minds: to make people question whether Black and brown people who have reached positions of influence, authority and achievement actually got there on merit.

In other words, an individual case becomes a vehicle for reinforcing a much wider and deeply damaging narrative: that the success of non-white people in high places is somehow evidence of DEI, rather than their own ability, qualifications and achievement.

We need better humans.

https://mothcloud.com/how-community-leaders-can-promote-unity-and-dialogue-in-times-of-conflict/

Why do we need an AI watermark for text?

So, AI was used to create a piece of text – so what?

Surely, what matters is the meaning, message and context contained within the text: the information, idea, opinion, or perspective it conveys.

Shouldn’t we focus on the substance of what is being said, rather than simply how it was produced?

Or, am I missing something here?

https://mothcloud.com/one-ai/