Selling a Product, Not a Passion:
AI As a Disrupter in Music and Art
While the music and art industries panic over AI stealing streaming revenue, the debate often spirals into a shallow argument of "fake vs. true". By focusing on lost royalties and generative tools, artists are inadvertently fighting for the survival of a corporate business model, rather than defending art itself. In this conversation, Kim Diaz Holm and Manheim challenge the prevailing narrative dictated by labels and platforms. Yes, traditional business models face an existential threat, but human creativity remains untouched. To save the artist, we must look beyond the tools. This panel explores how we can rebuild cultural architecture to protect free expression, artistic freedom, and the artist's ownership of their own narrative in an AI-driven era.
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Kjetil Manheim (NO)
Order / Nova Consulting Group
Kjetil Manheim is a foundational figure in the Norwegian extreme music scene, best known as the original drummer and co-founder of Mayhem. His musical career spans decades and genres, extending far beyond his black metal roots. He is a driving force behind the band Order, while also exploring avant-garde and experimental soundscapes through projects like Big Robot and the music collective Sonisk Blodbad. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with a diverse array of artists including Conrad Schnitzler, Russell Haswell, and Lasse Marhaug. Outside of music, he operates at the intersection of technology and business as the CIO and CMO of Nova Consulting Group.
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Kim Diaz Holm (NO)
Den Unge Herr Holm
Kim Diaz Holm / Den Unge Herr Holm (1980) is an artist and storyteller from Bergen, Norway. He has drawn thousands of concert sketches while headbanging at festivals like Inferno, Roadburn, Heavy Montreal, Høstsabbat and Tons Of Rock, and made cover art for bands like Abbath, Solstafir, and Vreid. To almost two million followers on TikTok and Youtube he draws monsters and tells stories of mythology, mental health, and anarchy. Advocating for radical Copyright reform Kim releases all of his own art for free use under Creative Commons licenses.
Photo credit: Uncle Allan Photo.