SIGNAL
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Everyone is talking about what AI changes.
We keep coming back to what doesn’t.
"A work of art exists only when the spectator has looked at it."
— Duchamp
The viewer completes the work. But the algorithm decides which work gets a viewer.
"I am interested in what there is to do, not in what I have done."
— Duchamp
AI doesn’t move forward. It accumulates. Growth isn’t the same as moving on.
"The choice of the readymade is based on visual indifference."
— Duchamp
A prompt looks similar from the outside. But it’s not neutral.
It’s shaped by the data, by the system, by what the model is trained to produce.
The gesture is similar. The logic isn’t. For us, selection is where the work begins.
"Art is a habit-forming drug."
— Duchamp
That hasn't changed. But the substance did. Not the object. The feed. We're part of that too. Knowing it doesn’t change it.
Duchamp questioned the system.
AI scaled it.
From the studio,
Nastassja & Christian
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Equally thought provoking and enjoyable. Thanks SS.
Well said.