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Re: The interactive installation “I Want You To Want Me” at MoMA: This is interesting vis-a-vis what I’m thinking about re the ‘Window Art/Mirror Art’ axis. The exhibit seems to be overly obsessed with gazing deeply into the mirror, rather than looking outwardly for transcendence. By only using what people type into websites we only see a ‘stylized’ version of behaviors. It is merely feedback, although may be useful in seeing the undercurrent of our emotions, similar to seeing what the big bang looked like as opposed to seeing only through imagination. While this may seem transformative, it might actually diminish imagination. And once people are aware of themselves being tracked, may artificially load the system with inaccurate data as people dissimulate reality. 

[1/8/2025: LLMs obviously can “artificially load the system with inaccurate data”, causing “hallucinations”. Since text has always been “wet” on the internet” our understanding of reality is being changed as easily as an oil painting, or making edits in Photoshop. Changing someone’s face in Photoshop is also a form of “artificially load the system with inaccurate data”].    

[7/13/2025: A friend suggested I do a how-to video on AI song generation. Isn't it all self-explanatory? Not really. I see it as a kind of "whispering". "Sell You a Bridge" took perhaps 25 "captures" which resulted in 12 curated songs, all the while refining the lyric. What's disappointing is that while the lyric might be finished in the final machine iteration, the music isn't. You're stuck with it. Certainly the way the words are "sung" isn't complete because a real person never interacted with them. A way around this is to re-generate the last iteration without the vocal and have someone sing it, but that changes it again. Every time you touch a piece of art or music it changes. Even listening to it with fresh ears changes it. A recording seems fixed as a painting is, but the internet makes the paint wet again. The McLuhan corollary is that the digital art made on the internet and with the internet makes it "cool". In music, the "hot" version was always the score or sheet music, but the interpretations made it cool.]