Carnival Carnivore

Abstract

In September 2021, a novel, experimental exhibition took place at Crone Gallery in Vienna, Austria. The artworks shown here were all generated by a precursor of today’s Artificial Intelligence: the text generator Poetry Machine, which David Link has been actively developing since 2001. The article details the texts produced and shows some examples of the artworks in the exhibition. The article thereby practically demonstrates a new approach to curating exhibitions and organizing the workflow between curators, artists and machines.

Keywords

• generative art, Artificial Intelligence, carnival, semantic networks, freedom of software, Poetry Machine, curating as artistic practice, actor theory, machine learning, structuralism, associative interconnections