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 was published in December 2024. My contribution is about the fictional computer program ‘The Art of mind’ that I invented for my opera project [After her Destruction].
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My contribution is about the fictional computer program ‘The Art of Mind’, that I invented 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 (Friedrich Kittler, Optische Medien. Berliner Vorlesung 1999, Berlin 2022, S. 34.) 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.
Lila-Zoé Krauß
The Art of Mind: A Quick Guide, 2024
Videomontage, 10′
2.1 sound, Color
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