Machinaclast

The only thing that matters is our limitations. Our inability to compete with the superhuman. With the web, with search engines, with recommendation engines, with massive datasets, with machine learning algorithms, with generative AI… and with other superhuman computing technologies yet to come.

Work with limitations, those you already have or those you can create on purpose. White on white. Black on black. This is the right direction. Instead of a vast surface of “infinite possibilities,” concentrate on a single point and delve as deeply as possible (Arielli & Manovich, 2024).

“Machinaclast” is a series of works that questions the role of technological advances and how our entire context is being transformed as a consequence of the emergence of new technologies such as generative artificial intelligence, avatars, and mixed realities. This technological development permeates all layers of life. “Machinaclast” focuses on something very specific: by focusing on detail and embracing human errors and limitations, it presents a unconstructed narrative created with traditional techniques (ink and graphite). Its abundance of detail leads the viewer into labyrinths to a no-man’s land that blurs the lines between reality and fiction.

Arielli, E. and Manovich, L. (2024). Artificial aesthetics: Generative AI, art and visual media. PhilPapers. https://philpapers.org/archive/ARIAAB.pdf