A podcast created from a private WhatsApp exchange between Hero Werkman and Andreas Maria Jacobs discussing Werkman's project proposal *), touching sensitive and problematic fields such as Holocaust inversion, the politico-economical and historical backgrounds of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This podcast was created using Google's AI notebooklm tool. A tool which analyses a given text and creates an audio transcript called a Deep Dive, in which an artificially created male and female voice are discussing the text. Although the transcript does not seem to be censured at all, some mistakes needs to be corrected: the Guernica example is wrongly attributed to Jacobs whereas it was Werkman who came up with it.
Listen to the Podcast: Deep Dive about Art and Current Events ...
*) The project proposal:
I would like to briefly explain the New Auschwitz project.
In particular, the explanation of why New Auschwitz.
It is about the fact that no one and no people has the exlusive right to the "worst suffering".
Everyone and every people suffers. Suffering is not a possession but a feeling and a characteristic of a feeling is that it has a beginning and an end. All human beings are subject to this. In essence it is not a personal but a human experience. Certainly no person or people has a monopoly on it and therefore not on Auschwitz. If people start to appropriate and monopolize feelings, such as the deep suffering that was inflicted on them, for example the persecution of the Jews in WWII, more suffering can arise from this. That is what New Auschwitz is about.
Take a good look at what the State of Israel has been doing in recent decades. Perfecting the systematic oppression of Palestinians with as the icing on the cake the total destruction of Hamas and Hezbollah. And the arrogance, just like the Germans of that time, that one is completely in the right. Not wanting to be addressed about one's behavior, not even by the UN. I want to name that danger.
That is why I am renaming Gaza to New Auschwitz, Southern Lebanon to New Auschwitz II and the West Bank to New Auschwitz III.
I invite artists to contribute to this imagination in their own discipline. **) In the hope of creating more awareness for the unimaginable and continuing suffering by this deep form of ignorance. It is precisely by recognizing and sharing pain as a human experience that one can go beyond personal, political and religious identifications and beyond the concept of injustice being done and perhaps learn from it and choose a better reality.
--- Hero Werkman (Gallery Kein Kampf)
**) Send your contributions before the deadline of November 1st to herowerkman@hotmail.com.
A wild tale of how Allende's engineers and a British management consultant dared challenge corporations and spy agencies - and almost won. Written and presented by Evgeny Morozov.
Broadcasted live on Radio Patapoe (Amsterdam) Wednesday's at 22:00 starting July 26th
Generated by Andreas Maria Jacobs with Diffusers
Experimenting with AI generated images using "prompt sculpting" - the technique of working towards a resulting image by slightly modifying the textual input prompt (the underlying text2img algorithm's input), resulted in a.o. these images.
Using Google's "Lens" function I came to know that most probably the original image used to generate these outputs came from this picture.
Prompt being used : BDM, female, dancing with, SS officer, germany, 1940s style, photo, sepia
Generated by Andreas Maria Jacobs with Diffusers
What is an intellectual worth without probity of the intelligence. Victor Serge.
What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. Victor Serge
La política ... ha sido la mayor fuente de males y pérdida de tiempo. Vlady
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THE STRUCTURAL SKETCH OF A SKELETON OF OBSOLETE POLITICS
After a long wait finally allowed to use the official Dall.E 2, a text to image convertor, based on state of the art Artifical Intelligence Made some fun images using the phrase Lenin and Marx swimming in a Moscow river
Also tried to do something with Chairman Mao and General Secretary Xi Jinping, but unfortunately that was not allowed by Dall.E 2's policies (sic!)
But luckily we still have the series Stalin and Lenin dancing available elsewhere on this site
Lenin and Marx swimming in a Moscow river
"Photography in uncertain, claustrophobic dark times, inspired by the Covid 19 pandemic.
Applying images which I often capture like cloudy skies, the sea, flowers, trees but this time also walls, railing and planes.
The images are rather dark so it takes one more sec to see where you are looking at."
Harry Dukker 2020
More work from Harry Dukker is available at: https://www.harrydukker.nl/4902-2/
New Digital Collage wants to celebrate the technique of contemporary collage, generating a dynamic showcase of innovative research in the realm of digital experimentation.
The online exhibition will be open for a year, growing daily after its launch in March 2020.
The project New Digital Collage has been conceptualised and curated by Fabio Paris and Linda Rocco.
Agam Andreas (NL) Plaza, dimensions variable Digital Collage, B/W Print
Poems and drawings from Hans Heiner Buhr
Hans Heiner Buhr was born in 1965 in East Berlin. He had a happy childhood in East Germany, playing football against the wall and being tough warrior Crazy Horse in countless battles in the plains and forests of Kaulsdorf Süd. Studied Art education and Russian language in Dresden and Smolensk and after that he went to Amsterdam and studied painting. Lived in the 1990s in Berlin as a young artist. Moved to Rustavi and Tbilisi in Georgia in the end of the 1990s. Lived in Samarkand, Uzbekistan teaching German language. He founded the travel agency „Kaukasus-Reisen“. Lives with his family in Tbilisi.
Find his art at www.heiner.world
Hans Heiner Buhr, Self portrait Me vs Me – About the eternal struggle with myself on Superrare.co
Re-working of an older work from 2018
Image of a landscape with a lake
Intensely digitally processed image of an older work , wich was already an intensely digitally processed image of a still older work
Following the outbreak of COVID-19 recently declared as pandemic by World Health Organization, and the consequent application of quarantine measures by many countries, portuguese artist collective wr3ad1ng d1g1t5 announces the call for e-mail art / art by e-mail “ART IN QUARANTINE”.
Having in mind the potential of this initiative to constitute a unique and artistic historical archive, as well as its interdisciplinary nature in the promotion of bridges between arts and health, we invite you, during the next 40 days, to send your contribution (textual/visual, sound and/or multimedia), via the following e-mail: artinquarantine@gmail.com
Constructed using the free availlable software RunWayML an open source AI solution which allows the use of a slew of different AI trained sets and provides means to use them on your own data
Using its text to image GAN (Generative Adversarial Neural Network) and selecting several sentences made of the abstract concepts: Television and Radio combined with some adjectives and nouns the following images were produced
The images themselves evoke a kind of eerie painterly atmosphere, which probably is caused by the un-understanding of the AI of the particular meaning of these concepts.
The dataset used appears to have the visual cognition of a 5 to 6 year old, it is interesting to see how this translates to the resulting outcome
Also interesting to note is that adding one or several spaces will change the output significantly. It is as if "nothing" is very meaningful for our AI!
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Tv statiuc with radio phone ,AA 2020 (Input exactly as above, including misspelling and spaces)
Art created with AI
a large building with a clock on the top of it
Art created with AI
Digital Painting
A2 Poster
