
Larry McNeil
49:59 - 50:30
"I'm going to talk about the artist statement just really briefly. It's what you need to author yourself because authenticity is an important aspect of all of it."
“I'm going to talk about the artist statement just really briefly. It's what you need to author yourself because authenticity is an important aspect of all of it.”
They ask for a bio, an artist statement, and a resume. I'm going to talk about the artist statement just really briefly. It's what you need to author yourself because authenticity is an important aspect of all of it. Writing an artist statement is an acquired skill that takes practice. You can't just say, "Okay, I'm going to write an artist statement," and just kind of scribble something out.
Larry McNeil, a Tlingit photographer and Boise State professor emeritus, warned a Sealaska Heritage Institute audience Tuesday that AI hiring tools Stanford flagged as racially biased are already in wide use, and urged artists to rely on authenticity and their own voices rather than AI-generated work.
