Artist designs a machine-learning assisted sculpture, then casts it in the powdered remains of the computer used to design it

That’s a pretty salty take. Did an artist wrong you in some way?

The material the sculptures are made from do matter–your typical house cat won’t appreciate the difference, but as human beings who habitually, obsessively look for meaning in the matter of their world, thinking 360-degrees around an idea is what the imaginative faculty does best. If the intangible, non-quantifiable aspects of things weren’t allowed to matter to us, our existence wouldn’t be much of anything except eating, sleeping, and reproducing.

It’s fine if you want to say you don’t like or appreciate more conceptual artworks, but there are plenty of us who do give a flying one about the artist’s concept.

Edit: That said, “I asked the computer to close its eyes and dream” is just showmanship, and I’m not sure about this particular sculptor…

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