Song: Departure
Artist: Ippo Yamada
From: Mega Man Zero 2

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Follow up since the reactions have been so funny. Very important that people know the pink trainers are called "pink beans" in Japanese. How delightful!!!!!

"hey baby my halo has been feeling funny do you think i should......can you stop fucking doing that?"

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.

#sometimes people are actually incorporating ai while making thoughtful art ABOUT ai #maybe we shouldn't immediately jump to the conclusion that the art vandal is the good guy here #gen ai #talking to myself here. bc I did make that assumption

Ooh, same.

A sign to tap

"If you're still having fun in your 30s you're functionally brain damaged" sure is a take.