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The Age of Murmuration

David (Jhave) Johnston · 2025 · Manifesto

The Age of Murmuration

An AI-created AI-art manifesto, made under the constraint “nothing generated was thrown away.” “This is a collection of fragments — instigated by an ordinary human, entangled with an ordinary machine … They do not assert themselves. They suggest. They accumulate. They murmur.”

“This is the age of murmuration. Not a collective. Not a chorus. A cloud. A swarm. A distributed field of cognitive and aesthetic possibility in which the human mind is no longer the sole conductor of meaning, but rather a node — vital, yes, but no longer central.”

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