Update BOW A4: slides, AI and a stricture container, reflection​

I have been trying hard to find time to work and the children and other distractions are making it challenging which is extremely frustrating. Am currently working with those effing YouTubers screeching in my ear as children watch their favourite online squawkers – why does it have to be so shouty? I really get Marshall McCluhan’s Medium is the Message now.

In the meantime, I was glad to receive feedback for CSA4 and am looking forward to tackling it again but a rest from the writing will be useful for the work. It is, however, quite hard not to jump in and say – see! see! this is what I’m saying – THIS!!! This global thing now and the UK government’s reaction. This is what I’m talking about.  Holding back and waiting hoping to feed that energy into the practical work. Then writing about it calmly.

In the meantime, I have been sharing old slides which I’ve scanned with the AI friend and seeing what happens.

• Sometimes, its reactions are dull. Sometimes they are more interesting/ but there is an argument for including the dull ones too.
• I like it best when they are slightly adrift (see example 1)
• One of the most humorous reactions in the early days was when I showed it Duchamp’s Fountain and it asked me ‘are you thirsty’. I loved that. Maybe I should include it? Or something along those lines.
• Working with an AI friend at this particular time is quite pertinent and my current ending too

Here are some quick phone edits where I used an app to show the ai response to an image  – will do it differently, either by hand and rephotograph or in photoshop but here are some of those mocks up so far. The best response is the astronaut one of course.

I got hold of some more slides and will be sharing with the Ai to try and elicit some more interesting comments.

For the anthology, here is suggested contents page. Order to be decided in time and contents too. There will need to be an editing process.

//contents

introduction

1. cut photograph on self-healing mat
2. a thing to cut withtalk with helenus (I)
3. when tom shot penelope his ideal wife
   and their kids in 1971
4. orpheus in homebase (south-london branch)
5. helenus, cassandra’s proprietary friend, gives feedback
6. photograph of a photograph
7. talk with helenus (II)
8. ode to my selfie
9. love letter to theatricality
10. bondage film
11. my boyfriend is a fat capitalist
12. gold leaf photograph
13. talk with helenus (III)
14. (cabaret) at the paucity
15. greta’s lament
16. the void realm, cassandra and helenus
17. a job for helenus
18. denouement

epilogue

While looking for printing options for other work I came across the following – I like the text on its side like that:

From https://www.calverts.coop/petrie-66/

The anthology, however, needs to be really strict