https://li-ma.nl/article/content-machines-requies/?mc_cid=dc65a1ea5a
A hybrid two-day festival by LI-MA and Distant.Gallery
“AI-generated content floods the digital space; attentions hurry to feed off the day’s offerings. CONTENT MACHINES asks: can these same techniques be used for artistic, non-commercial purposes? Through exhibitions, panels, and live performances on distant.gallery and in Amsterdam, international artists, collectives, and institutions bring together shared toolkits and critical reflections on authorship, automation, and visibility.
AI-generated content floods the digital space; attentions hurry to feed off the day’s offerings. CONTENT MACHINES asks: can these same techniques be used for artistic, non-commercial purposes? Embark with us on an unprecedented journey through the wonders of automated generation, mythical machinic incantations and a connection of brains and networks, just before the rot sets in. Online on Distant.Gallery and at LAB111 in Amsterdam, international artists, collectives, and institutions bring together shared toolkits and critical reflections on authorship, automation, and visibility.
What can you expect? In two sessions on the 22nd and 23rd of June your ‘For You’ page will come alive. An inaugural tarot pull leads into an examination of the generating of automated visual content for online dissemination, and the ways in which artists may go about workshopping such a thing. What sort of aesthetic output does it create? From here we travel on to the moon, various moons plucked from the pastures of social media during the Hindu ritual of Karwa Chauth.
Before you know it, two computers are chatting about speaking Italian, machines are cutting up chunks of the earth, someone somewhere wishes to be famous. Finally, you land in a circular cement structure. You do not know why, but feel a sense of camaraderie and even friendship as the winds bring your faraway sounds. Unsure of what you have witnessed, you put your phone away. “
https://distant.gallery/content-machines
