Material: Fine Art Print on Hahnemuhle Matt Fine Art Texture Paper Museum Etching 350
This work is a Triptych (61 x 84cm / each).
After more than fifty years of computer art, it is necessary to go back to the origins. Take a step back. Undress that artist of the role of Master of Ceremonies of someone else's party, and reduce the computer to its function as a tool. Remove the magical aura; put it in its place.
At a time when, more than ever technology, "artificial intelligence", or in general, the artificial other threatens the place of the biological self, reeling in the fascinated with the interactive bait. It is necessary to disagree with Dominic Lopes and say that computer art does not exist.
Some artists used chance to avoid taking responsibility for the final product. I use chance to take responsibility for it. Only chance can reveal the inner depths of aesthetic mind. The use of chance and selection leads to images that cannot be predicted at the outset and therefore cannot be controlled except as fact-accompli. It becomes, thus, a tool of continuous choice, which escapes the world of limited choice that technology presents us. Unlike the irrefutable and irrecusable choices of "OK" / "CANCEL", my endeavour is that the human-one is at all times the helmsman. The choice is not just digital but becomes continuous. Not just "yes" / ”No” but also all other points in between. The use of chance serves to remove the user from the if-then-else dictatorship and to give him a real choiceYet I have no illusion of dethroning the hidden wizards. Unlike Winston Smith who was convinced that the revolution was coming through the hands of the resistance, only to discover that resistance is just another process of submission created by Big Brother, here I know well enough that Orwell's failure was not realizing that his countrymen liked exceedingly well the process of control, and that subversion questions individual principles much more than it subverts some central authority.
