Sunday 4 June 2017

curation

Not the output of a machine-learning algorithm (check those out here, here, here and here) alone but rather a collaborative effort between human artist and robot that demonstrates that the two types of intelligences together are better than at odds, artist Isabel Kim’s Infinite Artwork Simulator project generates such absurdity precisely because the descriptions—for all their airs—strike one as perfectly plausible and something one could find attached to any item in a gallery or modern museum collection. Check out more of these formulaic recipes whose ingredients generally call for a pinch of something from pop culture, a bit of art history, a bit of cultural appropriation, plus something edgy to yield a useful blurb at Hyperallergic at the link above