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Art as a Result of Language
Three flash essays and synthesis by GPT-4May 22, 2023Prompted by A C-P 1/2 Art and language are intertwined in a complex relationship, with each influencing and shaping the other. Language serves as a powerful tool for communication and expression, while art provides a visual, auditory, or tactile medium through which ideas, emotions, and experiences can…
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What YOU and GPT-4 think about Jeff Hinton
1 — A conversation with YOU.com Me — Jeff Hinton said a few days ago that AI may soon become an existential threat to Humankind. Does this opinion make any sense? YOU — Jeffrey Hinton is a well-known computer scientist and artificial intelligence (AI) researcher. He recently made a statement warning of the risks of…
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Não, não é um ovni!
Da pintura como face oculta da sabedoria na obra de Manuel Casimiro Há duas perguntas que procurarei responder neste texto sobre a trajetória artística de Manuel Casimiro: 1) o que é (ou quem é) esse ovóide que aparece em quase todas as suas obras, determinando a sua inconfundível singularidade? 2) o que é que Jean-François…
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Conversa sobre Lyotard
Sobre a primeira proposição do Tractatus de Ludwig Wittgenstein NOTA sobre Lyotard enviada ao Bernardo Pinto de Almeida — Ele [Jean-François Lyotard] tentou escapar ao Marxismo Soviético que dominou todo o pensamento francês do pós-guerra até ao maio de 68! E fê-lo desmontando a ditadura do Verbo (da Bíblia judaico-cristã, das catacumbas romanas até Lutero…
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Hilma af Klint (Swedish, 1862-1944)
Art history needs new editing everywhere. The great awakening, like any uprising, has its victims. Nevertheless, “don’t throw the baby out with the bath water”! There’s much to learn from feminism and post-feminism, as from post-colonial studies, critical race theory, gender issues, climate change, unsustainable growth, unfair globalization, and pronouns. The Eurocentric male chauvinist is…
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Oliver Laric, a post-contemporary drive
Oliver Laric was one of my primary choices for the first edition of The New Art Fest (2016). Unfortunately, production issues made the presentation of his download-free artwork, Yuanmingyuan 3D, impossible. I invited Oliver Laric to show his work in Lisbon, but I am still awaiting his feedback. The artwork of this Austrian artist corresponds…
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Art as fashion
My input: Art as a mode of production of (symbolic or not) images, objects and performances is, at its core, an agency strategy. “I view art as a system of action, intended to change the world rather than encode symbolic propositions about it”, wrote Alfre Gell in its seminal anthropological book, Art and Agency (1998).…
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Democracy maps, eleven years after its hibernation
On March 22, 2012, I created Democratic Party. After a long eleven-year hibernation, I resurrected it yesterday after realizing the revolution of the so-called AIs (artificial intelligence) and AGI (Artificial general intelligence) and the change that will soon sweep over the human societies as we know them today. In 1998 I imagined what would become,…
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ChatGPT w/ OpenAI [#5]
On Coca-ColaUS culture’s global appeal Me — Why is American culture so appealing to the entire world? What makes it exceptional? OpenAI — American culture has a significant global appeal for several reasons. One reason is that the United States is a world leader in entertainment, media, and technology, with a massive output of movies, TV shows,…
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ChatGPT w/ OpenAI [#4]
Conversation with a Turing machine.On DALL.E nudity syndrome. On ideology. ACP — Are your ready for a conversation about DALL.E? OpenAI — Yes, I am familiar with DALL-E and would be happy to have a conversation about it. For context, DALL-E is an AI program developed by OpenAI that is capable of generating images from…
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