We aren't thinking beings who sometimes create. We're creating beings who sometimes think.
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A memoir-driven manifesto about art as the way back to feeling, body, meaning, and each other, in a civilization that has trained us to disconnect.
Across twenty-nine chapters, Homo Artis moves from the personal to the practical to the civilizational. It opens with a near-fatal crisis that remade its author, lays out the working practices of a prolific creative life, widens to what a pro-human future could look like, and ends with a Speech to Humanity written to be performed aloud.
Homo Artis is the answer to a simple question. When machines can do the thinking, what are we? We are creators. And creation is how we stay human.
Marco Palou is an Argentine-American artist, author, and entrepreneur whose practice moves across visual art, music, film, and writing. As Baby Yors, he has performed around the world and released music globally. He is the founder of the Art Anyway Foundation and the host of the Don't Freak Out podcast.
Homo Artis is his first book.
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