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Conversa sobre Lyotard
Sobre a primeira proposição do Tractatus de Ludwig Wittgenstein NOTA sobre Lyotard enviada ao historiador e poeta 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…
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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 the 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…
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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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Conceptual art for a new social breath
From How to Do Nothing to Saving Time and back I’ve recently listened to Jenny Odell’s talk on her artwork, namely on her best-selling book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy — an articulation of the right to do nothing in the age of everything, in her own words. Though teaching digital art…
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On post-photography
GANsAuthors: Ian Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza, Bing Xu, David Warde-Farley, Sherjil Ozair, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio Generative adversarial networks are a kind of artificial intelligence algorithm designed to solve the generative modelling problem. The goal of a generative model is to study a collection of training examples and learn the probability distribution that generated…
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ChatGPT w/ OpenAI [#3]
Conversation with a Turing machine.On abstract, figurative, minimal, and conceptual art. On ideology. The definition of art (Part II) ACP — Hello. May I call “you” OpenAI? This is my third conversation with “you”… So let me begin with this question: are “you” comfortable with art issues?OpenAI — Hello! You may call me “Assistant” if…
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critical thinking by a post-conceptual artist
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