Android Jones: The Transformative Vulnerability of Loss
Life is a Festival #144
Just over a month ago, the beloved Visionary Artist Android Jones lost his life's work and all his tools for creation in a fire on his property in Colorado. Today, Android returns to Life is a Festival to share his experience of loss, the profound opening of asking for help and his thoughts on AI art.
On the program Android describes how he designed his studio as a runway to attract the muse. He discusses his experience of losing the barn and how he processed his grief with kickboxing and the support of a trusted therapist. He shares a traumatic experience when he was eleven years old that made it difficult for him to ask for help but how the love of his community after the fire has helped him to open up. We finish our conversation with the sense of loss that artists feel with the advent of AI art and how this new paradigm will raise the bar for authenticity.
Andrew "Android" Jones is an American digital and multimedia artist whose work focuses on fantasy and psychedelic art. He is considered one of the leading figures in the visionary arts movement.
Timestamps
:07 - Creating a runway for the muse
:12 - Describing massive grief
:23 - Andrew’s 11 year old trauma and fear of asking for help
:35 - Vulnerability and the artist
:46- What Android is doing now
:58 - The grief of the artist in the face of AI art
1:08 - AI raises the bar for authenticity
Editing by Ariel Villafane
Graphics Designed by Ali Agus
Audio Engineering by Trevor Coulter
Theme song ““Peculiar Colors” [Manjumasi]“ by dj atish