Mark Amerika

POSTHUMAN CINEMA: & Art:

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

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. https://t.co/W3kcSVa6Nk

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

@medieninitiativ The essay I wanted to write but didn't have the right skill-set 😀

You, on the other hand...

Looking fwd to reading it!

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

@dif_fractions @LouisArmxnd 💯

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

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@mccoyspace Same 💯

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

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

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

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)

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"Flashback 1979"

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

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

@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.

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

@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."

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

@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.”

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

@Noahbolanowski @StephenRoddy A recent interview with Nake is here: https://t.co/WHfCzV9s7x

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@medieninitiativ Good counter "intel"

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

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

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“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:

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

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”

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

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

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@digitalcoleman Keep it going. It gets better.