Translations and Ekphrastic Writing on Digital Art

Writing about digital art should be as detailed and specific as possible, and LLM-generated translations can then make it accessible to different audiences. Regina Harsanyi, writing for the Toledo Museum's Infinite Images exhibit, noted that vague terms like "virtual" or "immaterial" are often used for digital art, and she used ekphrastic description to write about Operator's Human Unreadable. Brian Droitcour replied that dense context can become unhelpful for new viewers and pointed to Ken Liu's essay on using LLMs as translators. The text argues that writing about art is itself a translation, so multiple simplified versions could help readers see the work.