We are Collage: Dada, Instagram, and the future of AI

While the technique of cut and paste in its simplest form dates back to the invention of paper in China around 200 BC, collage didn’t become an indispensable mode of communication until mass-produced, printed media was adopted as a material by artists in the early 1900’s during the very early stages of Modernism. During a fractured and churned-up time, Höch constructed her works from fragments of fashion magazines, newspapers, and photographs stating that there were “no limits to the materials available for pictorial collages. And as AI becomes more commonplace it will become akin to those hobby periodicals and illustrated daily magazines of Höch’s era, like the gifs and memes of today, itself subject to material recombination.

Source: theartofresearch.org