Homo Artis: A Manifesto for Creation in the Age of AI

Somewhere along the way, we stopped making things. We handed our value to work, our attention to screens, our wonder to the feed. We began to trivialize art, shrinking it to a job, decoration, luxury, or hobby. Something for other people. And we have been quietly starving ever since. HOMO ARTIS is about the way back. Drawing from his life as a musician, filmmaker, and writer, Marco Palou argues that creation is not the icing on a human life. It is the cake. We aren't thinking beings who sometimes create. We're creating beings who sometimes think. From a near-fatal hospital bed in New York to the paper flower festivals of his childhood in northern Argentina, Palou traces a journey through grief, ambition, technology, identity, loneliness, and wonder, making the case for art as something far more essential than self-expression. Art is how we stay connected to our bodies, to each other, and to the parts of ourselves that cannot be reduced to information. The technology arriving now did not cause this crisis. It only turned on the lights. As artificial intelligence reshapes the world around us, HOMO ARTIS asks a simple but urgent question: What remains uniquely human, and what will we create with it?