Comment by krapp
3 years ago
And the most modernist form of art now is AI generated art. Pure form and aesthetic, but no real meaning or intent, like a face in a mirror, something shaped like human meaning but utterly devoid of it, manufactured like so much else of our reality.
Which, ironically, makes it legitimately art. It's art because it's anti-art.
That's cool. The Dadaists and some Surrealists were doing stuff like that intentionally, trying to make art devoid of an artist, or of intent.
Also the beat poets, who were trying to write intent-free stream of consciousness texts, kind of like a token-prediction engine. :)