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Artist statement - AI ART and Meaning

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  AI ART and Meaning What role does an artist play when employing AI? Artist statement by JJFBbennett If we accept that AI can generate vast quantities of statistically “meaningful” content from data and algorithms, then meaningful art may lie not in the output itself, but in its selection and framing. AI functions as a kind of unconscious, producing raw material at scale. The artist’s role shifts from maker to curator: deciding what to extract from the data’s noise, what to present as art, the context in which it appears, and the conversation it enters. The artist as the muddler and meddler in the centre of it all. This shift has an art-historical precedent. In 1917, Marcel Duchamp’s *Fountain* made a decisive claim: the artist had not sculpted the urinal but selected it, titled it, and placed it in a gallery. Meaning arose from the gesture of choice rather than the act of making. Walter Benjamin, too, anticipated this logic in his reflections on montage and editing: meaning can e...
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Godin Threat

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The lessons of history are written by vested interests
Where you placed your foot
And which information you are were willing to consume

That's fantastic, you were in control of something 
But it changed
Goodbye profitable time
Reflect on what could have been
What did you learn from the missed opportunity
Now gain control by sponsoring the change 

Along came a spider 
How do you digest a threat?

You were right here
Now you are nowhere to be seen
You have become the product
And now your worth depends on your response

Put your hands on your head
On your knees
On your eyes
Did that make you feel better?
Did you feel safer

Rate your happiness
Knowing that the spider is inside
One to five stars











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