Lila-Zoé Krauß

The Art of Mind: A quick Guide is a 10 minute video
contribution to the Texte zur Kunst issue #136, on the topic of
Lecture, which will be published in early December 2024.
My contribution is about a fictional computer program that I found for my project [After her Destruction]. In it I appear in the form of various avatars. An AI from an online platform has brought their portraits to life (or to speak) – with Cheap Resolution, because AI costs significantly more in Hi-Res. In this state of machinic subjectivity, the avatars tell their personal story, which also describes the creation of The Art of Mind. The starting point for the program is that “media […] become privileged models according to which our so-called self-understanding is constituted, presicesly, because it is their declared purpose to deceive and defraud this self-understanding.^_“1 According to this thesis, the relationship between people and media is inherantly a process of fictionalization. We use it to deceive ourselves, and this deception is particularly effective in the field of visual media.

to be published 3rd December 2024 via Texte zur Kunst