Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)

by Margaret Atwood

As for Film-making and Video Arts, who needed them? Anyone with a computer could splice together whatever they wanted, or digitally alter old material, or create new animation. You could download one of the standard core plots and add whatever faces you chose, and whatever bodies too.

This feels too close to a description of current practice

Ars Longa Vita Brevis.