Ben Davis on the "willful misreading of dystopia" at MoMA 's "woozy, semi-random, art-like... with wispy, unresolved edges" exhibition of machine spat images from their archive.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/refik-anadol-unsupervised-moma-2242329
@geraldine "The most crowd-pleasing of these simulates a seething, gravity-defying cloud of colorful fluid, the palette based on colors derived from the works in MoMA’s collection. New colors are constantly swirling into the image and taking over, the whole thing surging in and out restlessly, like a psychedelic, drugged-out ocean wave."
(nods) Ah, yes, a screensaver
I hear you. Screensavers can be meaningful tho. What stood out to me feels most indicative of AI in general - surface memesis over the cultural signifigance inherent in human-powered mark-making.
"What the endorsement of “Unsupervised” as an alternative-art-history simulator insinuates, for its audience, is that art history is just a bunch of random visual tics to be permuted, rather than an archive of symbol-making practices with social meanings."
Ian Storm Taylor
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