“Art doesn’t play fetch with approval. It chews the slippers of convention and relishes in the surprise of its own bark.”
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Mario Klingemann’s ChatGPT-powered robot dog,
A.I.C.C.A. (Artificially Intelligent Critical Canine, 2023), putting the pun in pundit. Unveiled in June at Espacio Solo in Madrid, the “performative sculpture” comments on the “endless barrage of AI-created art to consume, critique, or rather, endure,” says Klingemann. It also pokes fun at the art world, “which—let’s admit it—can occasionally obsess over the art of spouting profound, if at times inscrutable, BS.”
