Are all modern and classical photography techniques accessible to AI algorithms?
Let’s reflect together.
A time has come when artificial algorithms, at the command of an operator, masterfully recreate "eye-oriented" images by drawing from patterns of the past, mimicking the present.
An AI operator, much like a camera operator.
Some discern a difference between AI-generated images and photographs; others do not. But for those who feel, the distinction is undeniable.
Few can tell a copy from an original Raphael painting, yet most can recognize and appreciate their reproductions.
So what’s the difference? — AI operators might exclaim. Both are images, beautiful images. Only one is worth millions, the other mere dozens of dollars.
An AI reproduction captures the imprint of color and form but can never convey the artist’s impulse—their passion, despair, their feeling, and above all, their state of being at the moment of creation. This is why we visit galleries: to touch, across time, the nature of the creator through their canvases.
How much authorship remains in photography when images are copies of the world, where the photographer acts merely as a camera operator?
Where the interplay of light and shadow is pre-programmed into the camera and lens?
For those who care only for the result, AI imagery will suffice. For those who value the act of photographing, the world awaits exploration.
This is why Fluxism emphasizes the uniqueness of spontaneous artistic acts. Uniqueness because the operator—whether of a camera or AI—no longer exists.
Now, it is not the human behind the camera, but the camera that translates the human—the impulses of their body, emotions, and state of being.
No matter what you photograph, no matter how objects and shadows intertwine into patterns, you’ll see a mirror of your own sensations.
Imagine space not as airy but dense, like earth. A body moving through it leaves trails, guided not by sight but by touch, hearing, intuition, and trust in the flow—like a mole tunneling through the universe.
Every movement, every touch, every breath leaves an invisible yet tangible imprint in this dense medium—a unique form of interaction.
In Fluxism, the camera is a tool that renders these invisible paths visible.
It reveals the traces of your whole being’s movement and contact with the external world.
On the screen, you see not an object but an echo of an encounter—a visualization of how your inner state resonated with space in that singular, irretrievable instant.
Little of what appears on our screens will be worthy, but some frames—undeniably exquisite. Perhaps one or two, with new interplays of form and line, rhythm and structure, shaped not by logic but by the raw perception of a new reality.
Such a photograph is unique and unrepeatable.
Such a photograph is your mark on the Universe.
What does a fluxist photographer need?
Physical presence (dissolving into reality).
Precognition of aesthetics — not staging, but anticipating the unseen.
Surrendering control — letting chaos autograph the frame.
Why This Matters Beyond Photography:
A meditation on "here and now".
State of non-duality. In the classical understanding of photography there is a photographer and objects of photography. In this movement the author and space are a single flow.
How to Spot True Fluxism?
Unrepeatable (even by the author).
Reality’s tremor visible — the photo ceases to be a document; it becomes a new interpretation of matter.
A parallel reality — one that didn’t exist before the shot and will never exist again.
Museums compete to showcase Fluxism
