Art as a compulsion to create
Art is a compulsion to create. Insults can fuel more work, and a backlash that goes too far can spark Dadaist disgust.
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Writing
Essays, thoughts, and technical notes.
Thoughts on Glaze and Nightshade
My criticism of Glaze and Nightshade, the limits I see in their protection, and the artistic techniques I use instead.
Why don't you hate Dadaism?
Practicing Dada challenges everything an artist was taught to hold sacred. Understanding the philosophy through practice can inspire passionate disagreement as well as devotion.
Fan art, appropriation, and punk rebellion
Fan art can act as punk rebellion and appropriation. Context and irony connect it to Warhol, Höch and Lichtenstein.
Dissent is participation
Dissent is participation. Dada combines criticism, absurdity and the contemplation of Nothing—and if you have read this far, it is already too late.
Deconstruct, contemplate, educate
Deconstruct, contemplate and educate: three pillars of my experimental Dada practice and neural bending.
A crisis of painting needs historical context
A definition of art that cannot account for existing art is too narrow. The current crisis of painting needs its historical context.
On Prompting, Automated Prompting, Creative Processes, and The Soul of Art
I've developed a new, more interactive process for proompting, and it has me asking questions about what all of this means.
The rules of the art world bind the artist
Rules about who earns the title artist can become shackles. Art that escapes those rules can threaten the world they protect.
Cast off the shackles of the cult of order
Cast off the cult of order, join the abyss of Nothing and think like an insane moose in a department store.
The work of unlearning the rules
Practicing Dada means unlearning control, order and the assumptions an artist was taught to obey.
A Dada film from 1924
A Dada film from 1924, introduced to me by Dadabots, and the process connections I see with AI art.