Carnival Carnivore

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David Link

In September 2021, a novel, experimental exhibition took place at Crone Gallery in Vienna, Austria. The artworks shown here were all generated by a precursor of today’s Artificial Intelligence: the text generator Poetry Machine, which David Link has been actively developing since 2001. The article details the texts produced and shows some examples of the artworks in the exhibition. The article thereby practically demonstrates a new approach to curating exhibitions and organizing the workflow between curators, artists and machines.

Keywords
generative art, Artificial Intelligence, carnival, semantic networks, freedom of software, Poetry Machine, curating as artistic practice, actor theory, machine learning, structuralism, associative interconnections

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How to Cite
Link, David. “Carnival Carnivore”. Artnodes, no. 34, pp. 1-9, doi:10.7238/artnodes.v0i34.422950.
Author Biography

David Link, Freelance artist and theorist

David Link (1971, Düsseldorf, Germany) is an artist and theorist. In 2004, Link took his PhD in philosophy with a work on the history of computerized text generation. From 2009 to 2011, he held the chair of Experimental Technologies in the Art Context at the Art Academy of Leipzig. In 2012, Link was a participating artist at dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel. Also, in 2012, he won the Tony Sale Award for Computer Restoration of the British Computer Conservation Society for his work LoveLetters. His computer art installations and performances have been exhibited internationally, including Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2010); dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel (2012); Microwave Festival, Hong Kong (2012), YCAM Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan (2013); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2015, 2018, 2019-2022); Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB, Spain (2016); Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2016) and Museum of Applied Arts MAK, Vienna, Austria (2019).

References

Link, David. Poesiemaschinen / Maschinenpoesie. Zur Frühgeschichte computerisierter Texterzeugung und generativer Systeme (On the Early History of Computerized Text Generation and Generative Systems). In German. Munich: Fink, 2006.

Link, David. “There Must Be an Angel. On the Beginnings of the Arithmetics of Rays”. In: Siegfried Zielinski and David Link (eds.). Variantology 2. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies. (Cologne, 2006), 15-42.

Link, David. “Love-Letters, First Derivative”. Gagarin, no. 25, (2012): 48-61.

Link, David. Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts. Minneapolis: Univocal, 2016.

FM Einheit; David Link feat. Poetry Machine: Radar Angels. A Generative Song Cycle. Vinyl record at Rustblade, Italy, 2023.

Link, David. Pandaemonium. Berlin: Matthes und Seitz, 2024 (forthcoming).

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