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> The readymades of Duchamp were art because of their audacity, because of the context of the other art around them, and because of their arrangements... If yo
by HKH2 4y ago
> The readymades of Duchamp were art because of their audacity, because of the context of the other art around them, and because of their arrangements...
If you open the door for Duchamp's urinal then you can't close it on DALL-E. Everything you said there applies to DALL-E.
- notahacker 4y agoI don't think Duchamp's urinal is particularly great, but DALL-E'S process is pretty much the opposite. Ask it to conceive a "fine art scuplture of a fountain" and it'll draw something that looks a lot like the existing sculptures, with water spouting out of it Only way you're likely to get a urinal from DALL-E is if you ask it to draw a urinal (or curate a dataset full of urinals, possibly mislabeled). And nobody would have considered Duchamp's urinal art (never mind still be talking about it today) if he'd produced it when asked to design a bathroom rather than an opportunity to install whatever he wanted at an independent artists' exhibition.
- HKH2 4y agoIt wouldn't be hard to get it to change words so it doesn't give you what you want but something with similar properties. I don't think that's art; it's just a social game, yet that's somehow meant to be the definition of art these days.