Make the art that lives under your eyelids
Make the art that speaks to you. Human connection matters more than toxic validation or the tools someone else thinks you should use.
Lynn Cole / Writing
Writing
Essays, thoughts, and technical notes.
How AI art became part of Dada
When AI art was declared offensive non-art, it entered the space Dada has always expanded into.
Radical inclusion has no litmus test
Dada has no litmus test. Everyone with thoughts on art is welcome, including those who disagree. Radical inclusion is something you have to practice.
If everything is art, Nothing is art
If everything is art, Nothing is art. Nothing matters—and Nothing matters a lot.
Coding, art, and the pleasure of bending a medium
Coding has always been part of my art practice, from procedural exhibitions to character tools and sculpture. But coding and prompting remain different artforms, and bending AI has pleasures of its own.
The rhythm and coincidence of video collage
I've been thinking about the way I riff, especially on video content, and how the process seems really magical to me.
Randomness that looks intentional
Random arrangements can look meticulously planned. Experiencing that apparent order is part of what makes Dada exciting.
Translating Joe Turner into a contemporary song
Rewriting Joe Turner for a contemporary audience meant finding its structure, translating the details and carrying the emotional argument across genres.
From FaceApp experiments to a creative practice
In 2017, I was having an existential crisis around my gender identity.
Soul, aura, and the way we talk about art
Soul, aura, authenticity and provenance are related ideas that keep being mistaken for one another in arguments about art.
Rescuing a song seed and making its video
I woke up this morning feeling this insatiable need to write a needy love song.
The order that emerges from chaotic collage
Random cuts and layered fragments keep producing uncanny order in my video collages. The result looks planned, even when it was not.