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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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CO1
Crossing-over (2022-) é o sexto grupo textual criado em 1989. 1989-1991— Frases 2018-2019 — Imagens proposicionais 2015 — A short circuit of meaning 2020 — Fortune cookies Objetivo: diminuir a pegada material da arte na sociedade e suas instituições, através de um sistema de notação e representação conceptual aberto à interpretação e execução futuras. A…
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ChatGPT w/ OpenAI [#2]
Conversations with a Turing machine.On art memory, concepts, and logical issues. The definition of art (Part I) ACP — Hello again, do you know the artist Leonardo da Vinci?OpenAI — Yes, I am familiar with Leonardo da Vinci. He was a famous artist, architect, and scientist from the Renaissance period. He is best known for…
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critical thinking by a post-conceptual artist
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