08 / November 3

Art as Abstract Machine

“Any piece of flotsam or jetsam within our grasp should be considered as a precipitate of our desire.”
— André Breton

Topics

Deleuze and Guattari’s abstract machines; Zepke’s Art as Abstract Machine, Levelism in art; Police and Thieves — Generative Adversarial Nets; GANs to diffusion models; Reciprocal Panopticism: one-way mirrors, walled gardens, hidden layers; DARPA’s Lifelog to Meta; Facebook/Meta Captology, BJ Fogg’s Persuasive Computing

Readings

Stephen Zepke

Introduction, Art as Abstract Machine: Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari

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Additional Reading

Ian J. Goodfellow, et al., Generative Adversarial NetsBJ Fogg, from Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do

Lab

Runway, Sora, et al. generative video