upon the earth and yhe plains I craft this pigs. lemon, and they will bring me good luck in such magnitudes the skies will shake and the waters will rise (the elements reclaim what was taken)
watch me create them
check in on the pigs with me. i hear their wheezing cries amongst the growing mold, and this replaces the sound of rain and thunder for sleep. day 23
you like me...for me..? (blushes) (cums all over the
huh
as you wish lord
it isn't fair that snakes are so cute. they're so fucking cute. ggrra
im gonna throw up that's not fair
"if you don't let me use a slur for trans women made by 4chan to define my transmisogynist stereotypes then you are a bigot"
Cannot consumption of AI be considered an art expression?
Of course it can, and performance art is art, but I feel like it's important to know that the art being eaten was a series of AI generated images reflecting the artist's experience of AI psychosis and commenting on the way that AI use changes the users' interactions with the world. The images were generated by someone who has been using image generation tools in their art since 2017 and who was educated as an artist using traditional techniques.
The piece that the protester ate was made by an MFA student and wasn't an attempt to "pass off" generated images themselves as art, the art was the presentation of the images and their sequence and variety (there's an element of obsessive iteration visible even in the remaining images - an empty room, the same room with different light, the same room with a smiling woman on the bed, the same woman standing in different poses, which speaks to me of someone furiously attempting to construct a comforting reality and finding the tools in your hands inadequate, but that's just my interpretation of what remains).
For the record, Nick Dwyer was the MFA student whose art was eaten. "The intersection of art and AI" is a huge theme in his work.
Like. He made a ceramic sculpture of an AI girlfriend, then generated an AI image of the sculpture and called them one and two in a series.
He made ceramic "phones" and inscribed them with cuniform and ai image hieroglyphics that he carved into the clay.
I've talked a lot about how I think that AI has a place in the creation of art and I think Dwyer's work is genuinely a perfect example of someone using AI to create art.
Again, I also think that performance art is art and eating a portion of the gallery piece is certainly an interesting statement, but I wonder if the protestor would be as outraged by the ceramic phones with AI images engraved on them. How much human touch or human intention does "slop" need before it's art, or is it fruit of the poisoned tree and must always be considered slop because AI was part of the process?
yeah it's a dramatic and violent piece of criticism to deface work you don't think 'counts' as art-- one that fascists love to employ, btw-- but also as a critic your statements are also open to further criticism. you don't get to sit in judgement of others but have your own position be placed somewhere beyond reach.
if you eat someone's work because you don't think it's art, we have every right to call you a dumbass shithead who didn't bother to actually engage with the medium or message of the artist you attacked.
I don't know. I just don't know
It took me a solid thirty seconds to realize that Phragmites was probably the genus name of the plants in the picture and not, like, an ancient Greek warrior waiting in the marshes to attack.
Don't even worry about all that
cat understood the assignment
Death to all cops especially this person's dad
person who assumes maleness as default and refuses to interrogate this: yeah this character has no gender, they're just a little Guy
you literally could not even make it past word two before calling me a man
sorry kids daddy lost all his money betting on rhinoceros beetle fights again there won't be a christmas this year
good news babies, momma just cleared some chump of everything. Two christmases this year. God i love beetles fighting
Haven't seen anyone talking about it here, but vocal transfeminist and writer Tara Knight has been sent a threat from the fbi insisting that she stop speaking about "radical gender ideology" and get rid of the past 3 years of her work.
A black trans woman is getting personally threatened by the fbi for being a transfeminist. What the fuck. Hopefully this gets more reach than my usual posts so that people who are able to can support her.
While I'm not denying this is something that happens at all, I really want to say that this is very much misinformation, and I highly suggest reading this article. It's absolutely a scary time for trans people, especially for transfems and trans people of color, but this is irresponsible and isn't helping at all.
Update, btw
Tara has admitted the FBI letter was fake.
please don’t share this without context!
Tara did not fake the letter, she later learned it was fake. She really received what she thought was an authentic letter written by the FBI, and she naturally responded in fear. Sure, she didn’t do due diligence before reporting on it (neither did yall when reblogging this…) but she’s not a scammer or a grifter! The hate she’s receiving is disgusting and if she wasn’t a Black trans woman I don’t think she’d be receiving 1/10th of the backlash she is now.
My parents taught me to go to the bathroom to calm down if I was feeling overwhelmed which was good advice for an autistic child but now i have some trouble leaving bathrooms. They're such a perfect safe space. No one is allowed to bother you. It's like the womb
this is like murdering someone and then posting their obituary in remembrance come the fuck on bro
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