Anna Smetanenko
Artificial intelligence:
imitation disorder
Presented artwork is juxtaposition of old books’ front pages found on Google Ngram viewer and written by artist dialogue between AI authors and AI that should be capable of self explanation.
The rewriting of cultural memories turns people into beames - entities of being with moral values influenced or created by media. Those who wrote first operating systems are in control of time and formless reality - term introduced by Malevic. Formless reality is inability of mind to grasp physical, mental, historical messages in their coexistence in one or several objects. World is arrangement of reality, a collage with encoded, packed meaning, functions and values.
We have currently reached past centuries’ architecture and design end. Observing architecture and design of social places shows that they exist only as visual variation upon ownselfs, extending functionality with creativity borrowed from art that extends and elaborates on human psyche. However, function of designed places is that of comfort and people are more reluctant to visit social places rather than places of art. This means, that illiterate in their root people are being exposed to visuals of philosophizing minds in areas of comfort. This rewrites the way people perceive reality and their inner selves. The same happens in online reality: colors and shapes, developed by artists throughout history, entangled in spiritual understanding of the world, are used as illustrations to simplify and direct human attention to the nowadays’ commodity values. With diminished, simplified human psyche we are becoming exposed to retina arrangements: history of art and spirituality in its whole became an illustrative ready made used for directing human mass to fulfill governmental needs.
Installation (7 x 12 cm tear off calendar with 9 pages of conceptual texts, covered in red drapery with black text on it “AI: local loophole: imitation disorder”, hanging on the right of black 15 x 60cm street sign, saying, in red letters
“February 10, 1996
IBM Blue won to Kasparov
in chess”
2018