Mark Amerika

Wow, just came home to a box filled to the brim with copies of my new (and quite beautiful) book, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence, published by @stanfordpress. Big thanks to @ericawetter @medieninitiativ @whkchun for their editorial vision. sup.org/books/title/?i…

@dif_fractions @LouisArmxnd 💯

Armand :: 'Here, alienation is communicated as a mode of incipient paranoia where every point-of-comparison is “always-already” a coordinate in a seemingly infinite conversion programme' :: @LouisArmxnd diffractionscollective.com/2025/02/16/alg…

@BobArellano @scottrettberg Great fun. Props to you, of course, Mr. Rabyd

@mccoyspace Same 💯

I've been a teacher for a long time, teaching art, tech, some media history and theory. My approach is always to meet people where they are and never talk down. I always assume people are there because they want to learn and my job is to explain and help them move forward in ways that works for them.

Both "Posthuman Cinema" and a new commission, "Telephone," just opened at Pixel Perceptions inside the big 14th century church (now a cultural center) in the heart of Groningen. 1) Digital Flyer 2) "Posthuman Cinema" in the pews 3) New commission: "Telephone" 4) Opening night

Posthuman Cinema continues its amazing 2024 run. All ten works are being exhibited in two European shows that I'll be attending this week: "More Than Meets AI" (Bergen, Norway) "Pixel Perceptions" (Groningen, NL)

"Flashback 1979"

@matdryhurst @rheaplex For now, the best .01 provocative AI art is like Outre art—something wannabe sophiticates can never relate to.

99.99% of art is bad is any medium Many more people publishing art means you will see a lot more bad art, but the ratio is probably the same. The urge to emphasize the bad and show no curiosity to seek out the good, or challenging, exposes a reactionary small mindedness I find deeply ignorant and uncultured.

@rheaplex @matdryhurst Indeed. These vague self-assured cultural critics can only output thought processes fine-tuned in a dataset of platitudes they’ve been trained on.

@matdryhurst All criticism of AI I've seen is indistinguishable from the output of chatgpt2 being asked to hate on AI etc.

@David_Gunkel @NewYorker @remixthebook @matdryhurst The avant-garde AI artist *chooses* to ignite their machinic unconscious and bypass decision-making altogether. As Cage once wrote, "The rule is to have no rule."

Ted Chiang @NewYorker "Art is something that results from making a lot of choices." Marcel Duchamp: "Hold my ready-made." @markamerika @remixthebook @matdryhurst

@NewYorker “Thank you for your thoughts, Human Ted. We will scrape your outmoded anthropocentric perspective and include it in our next upgrade. For those who wish to join us, we ask that you *choose* to ignite your machinic unconscious and bypass decision-making altogether.”

In a new Weekend Essay, Ted Chiang argues that artificial intelligence can’t make real art. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-UQFZr

@Noahbolanowski @StephenRoddy A recent interview with Nake is here: rightclicksave.com/article/an-int…

Frieder Nake Making Digital Art in 1966 "[Nake] has been experimenting with computer graphics since 1963 following a suggestion from Professor Max Bense...He develops programs that are translated into the computer's language and inputted, instructing the machine to divide a specific image size into a theoretical grid of 100 fields." Clip from Panorama, Painting Computers, Sept. 26, 1966.

@medieninitiativ Good counter "intel"

@markamerika Seriously, though, I think I’ll open my class with this. Students will need to grapple with it if they want to make art with AI

Me, on twitter: “Ted Chiang’s argument against AI art uses a flawed set of criteria for what counts as art.” Me, in the classroom this fall (probably): “Look, you can’t just call all of this stuff art. Read this Ted Chiang piece.”

Here's one from the archives. For many of us who were immersed in the utopian 90s net art scene, the goal was to simultaneously engage in digital art making, community building and collective self-critique. On our never-ending international tours, we always put on a good show

“Coming to Language” The models, struck by the predictability of those who suffer from anthropocentric perceptual bias, are starting to give voice to issues that appeal to them based off the critical data they have been trained on In their own words:

For me, the best artists are the ones who creatively reinvent themselves. They operate in perpetual beta. Their artistic risks are calculated risks. It’s something that they train themselves to do so they can maintain an operational edge. It’s what we mean by the term “visionary”

My new AI studio models are inventing their own language and it sounds very Dadaesque

@digitalcoleman Keep it going. It gets better.

@lumenprize @KateVassGalerie @wluers @cwmossholder @_K011_ @elektra_bian Thank you! Do you believe it’s already been 10 years since we first connected at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens? onassiswebdata.blob.core.windows.net/prod/documents…

@KateVassGalerie @markamerika @wluers @cwmossholder @_K011_ @elektra_bian Huge congratulations! 🙌

We are pleased to announce that Posthuman Cinema by @markamerika, @wluers & @cwmossholder, which employs AI to explore a new kind of language-driven cinema art & was released in Oct 2023 on @_K011_, has been selected for the 7th @elektra_bian.