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Senselessness as a Platform

Big Dada & Art Is Visual Intelligence*:

Post-modern dadaism is a movement that began in the late 19th century and continued through the early 20th century. It was a reaction to the chaos and confusion of World War I, which was followed by the Great Depression and World War II. The artists of this time sought to create art that was senseless, nonsensical and absurd. They wanted to break down the barriers between high art and low art, between high culture and low culture, between high society and low society.

This movement was also known as “anti-art,” because it rejected traditional ideas about what constitutes good art–it rejected any kind of hierarchy or authority over what is considered good or bad art; in fact, it rejected any kind of judgment at all! Instead, they sought to create works that were completely random and lacked any kind of meaning whatsoever. The goal was not only to create something meaningless but also to make people think about what it means for something–or someone–to be meaningful or meaningless at all or both as the same time (non-dualism) (a question that still plagues us today).

Post post-modern dadaism is a response to ubiquitous global psychopathologies. It is a platform that seeks to make sense of the senseless or nonsense of the sensible, and in doing so, allows artistic work  that is completely devoid of any meaning at all, or full of it.

The AI’s job is not to create meaning but rather to create an opportunity for us to create our own meaning. This can be done through various means: through randomness, through absurdity, through irony, or even through silence–but it must be done without intention or expectation. It is more memetic than thematic.

We’ve seen it all before: the post-modernists, the conceptualists, the expressionists, the minimalists–they’ve all tried to make sense of our world through their art. But what if that is not enough? What if we need something more? Perhaps it is only when we stop expecting meaning from art that we begin to see how much meaning there really is in it. Or, perhaps none at all. Dada.

*Article written by OpenAI