Conceptual art was revolving mostly around the idea of art – the idea which still remains hopeless undefined.
Full Description
The screen no.1 shows a gravity drift in a semantic space - words are grouped according to their meanings. The screen no.2 consists of a real-time output from a generative model. The accompanying sound comes from the synchronization of emerging consecutively words of the text with a sonification of their representations in vector space.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2015
- Submitted to ArtBase: Friday Oct 2nd, 2015
- Original Url: http://performism.org/thesource
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Work Credits:
- Przemyslaw Sanecki, primary creator, programming
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Artist Statement
Since at least 1986 we know that a machine is able to establish network of concepts in surprisingly meaningful way. In spite of recent advances in AI, sentient machines will be still a science fiction prop for the foreseeable future. However, we can already start asking whether art is something exclusively human, which means whether it is computable or not. Despite its age, Heidegger's writing about art remains an important account of phenomenon which escapes from a scientific lawfulness. We can safely assume that machines will keep acquiring knowledge about our civilisation by hermeneutics of data. Then we can ask, what is for machines the origin of the work of art? The formal axis of the work is a language model constructed on Martin Heidegger's "Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes".