“Language is the New Material” presented by Rajcic
Session Title:
Experimental Arts in Public Space (artist talks)
Presentation Title:
Language is the New Material
Presentation Subtheme:
Speculative practices
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Abstract:
The increased coherence and readability of AI generated text that came with the release of LLMs marks the transition towards an earnest enquiry into the machine’s comprehension of human matters. The adoption of machine-generated text in creative work no longer serves as a conceptual provocation, a celebration of the absurd, but is too an exploration of heartfelt meaning in human-machine communication. In this artist talk, I present a body of work in which language constitutes the material, a body of work that is relentlessly striving to answer the question: If we do draw meaning from machine text, then where does that meaning come from?
