AI simulates the mind to project a form. When we frame an exhibition with its walls, its contents become replicable. An exhibition no longer opens a window to the experience of art. One creates something, technology recycles. If mastery, discipline and discourse are replicable, why create? The postmodern is a primal fear.
"Ungenerating AI", in avantgarde terms, distinguishes between "arty tech" and "techie art". Arty tech is the uncanny valley, a seamless replica of forms, like automata. It is "neither artificial nor intelligent" (Note 1). Techie art returns to institutions because its wordiness gets appropriated and absorbed, as if whatever one creates immediately belongs to institutions. It is "artificial stupidity"(Note 2). What was the original relationship between art and technology? Is it really necessary to have such a dichotomy, or even to be anti-technology?
"Ungenerating AI" not only invited 5 non-AI artists who use traditional and non-traditional materials, but also self-published a 6500-word curatorial statement. After a deep dive, everyone dismantled the narrative that their forebears had given technology. Subversively, how does AI find its way to become "the" missing puzzle? Defining AI could also be beyond its mechanisms, sociocultural distribution and exhibition histories - what we won't see but already know…
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