Skygolpe’s new publication Digital Maieutics launches today, December 19th, at the Paint on Pixel exhibition in New York: an immersive intellectual experiment blending creativity, philosophy, and technology.

Inspired by Socratic Maieutics – the ancient practice of using dialogue to help uncover latent ideas – Digital Maieutics positions artificial intelligence as both creator and guide. Through intricate, machine-generated dialogues, the book explores profound questions about the evolving relationship between human intuition and machine cognition. This collaboration between creator and AI doesn’t just reflect AI’s potential to assist in creativity; it reimagines its role as an equal partner in the process.

The texts within the book are intentionally raw, layered with imperfections and logical complexities unique to AI-generated thought. Rather than providing straightforward answers, Digital Maieutics invites readers to participate in a broader conversation. Each page serves as a provocation, challenging assumptions and encouraging readers to explore unfamiliar perspectives. This is not AI imitating human emotion or logic, it’s AI evolving its own unique forms of expression, untethered from traditional frameworks of understanding.

Every copy of Digital Maieutics is authenticated through PRNTD technology, featuring a unique QR code that certifies its originality. These books are part of a limited run, exclusively reserved for attendees of the exhibition and not available for sale.

With Digital Maieutics, Skygolpe continues to dissolve the boundaries between art and technology, creator and tool, and human and machine. The book is both a conceptual artwork and a philosophical statement, offering a vision of creativity that extends beyond human limits. By rethinking how knowledge and art can be created in a post-human age, Digital Maieutics serves as a catalyst for conversations about the future of intelligence, creativity, and the ways they intersect.

Exhibition opening night: December 19, 6–8 PM. On view through December 21. 48 Hester St, New York, NY 10002.