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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction)

@merzmensch.bsky.social

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Antifa/scist. Writer, Artist, Researcher. Writing about Gen AI since 2017. Art, Dadaism, Japan, Transmedia. 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇯🇵 merzmensch.com Building new Cultural Epoch since 2000ies. NEW: Book "KI-Kunst" ("AI-Art"), 2023, by Wagenbach Verlag. Exploring AI since 2016.

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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · May 6

Nur damit es klar ist:
MERZMENSCH
hat mit MERZ im Sinne Friedrich nichts zu tun.
sondern mit
MERZ-Kunst von Kurt Schwitters.

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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 38m

Due all my enthusiasm regarding narrative possibilities of GenAI, this campaign "who should I vote for" is horrible, misleading and ridiculous. It doesn't say much about parties programmes, rather about their textual interpretation by particular GenAI model... incompetent populist use of GenAI, imho

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 10h

Updating my LEGO White House

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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 8h

This! To many chaos per a time unit...

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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 8h

Hehe, then we're lil too early. My both kids have experience of COVID and GPT-3/, both begun for them 2020 (well my daugher, then-8, visited my first workshop "AI for Kids" I begun to give since 2020 as well). They are proto-GenAI being Gen Alpha 😁

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 8h

I think the reason are Towa Tei and Sheena Ringo, they love vintage aesthetics, visually and in sound. Plus, it creates the effect of shift (after Shklovski), with ironical distancing from the concept of modernity, where we can better see ys from the meta-perspective.

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 16h

"Waiting for your turn" (2024-25)
From: #NeoreAIlism

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 17h

BigGAN and Metamorphosis of Everything.

The dream of machines doesn’t create monsters — but wonders. My essay about BigGAN and power of interpolation.

From my series "AI & Creativity", published 2018.

Now in English / Deutsch / 日本語
#GenAI
merzmensch.com/f/big...

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 18h

APPLE by Towa Tei and Sheena Ringo.
My short essay about Towa Tei, Sheena Ringo, and electronic temptation between myth, music, and modern AI.

In English / Deutsch / 日本語

merzmensch.com/f/app...

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 23h

“I always thought, ‘When I make a music video for this song, it should be at a time when a new technology has arrived." Towa Tei wrote APPLE with Sheena Ringo 12 years ago.

Now AI is here. Created with Gemini (Dir. Takeshi Nakamura)
www.youtube.com/watc...
The wait was worth it

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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 1d

I'd even say, since 2015 :))

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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 1d

Weird Phenomen with @Duolingo (case: Japanese). Since many lectures - only complaining. About job conditions (dirty hotels...), about relationships (boring partner...), about health (continuously ill...), about parties (dull speach at marriage...). Hey Duolingo. Why so toxic?

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 1d

Sie geht systematisch über mehrere Kontext-Ebenen sowie politische Felder, mit unterschiedlichsten Beispielen. Vor allem interessiert sie der Wahrnehmungs- und Reaktionsaspekt, der zu neuer Deutungsmacht wird. Eine sehr wichtige Metaebene, da die Manipulierbarkeit ist überall präsent.

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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 1d

Books from @Book_Fair #fbm25

"Hyperreaktiv" von Annekathrin Kohout, Wagenbach Verlag.

Tiefgreifende Rezeptionsanalyse der Kommentare im Zeitalter von Social Media und Short Attention Span.

"Rede ohne Antwort" (Baudrillard)
"Antwort ohne Rede" (Kohout)
(Auf den Punkt!)

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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 1d

"Rainshine" (2025)

from: #NeoreAIlism

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Tien @wtftien.bsky.social · 2d

Love the intensity of this comment. Not sure about this “hard” separation though after reading a book on AI from @merzmensch.bsky.social.

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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed. We need to focus on art which ever art tools we use to follow our vision.

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 2d

SAD? Call me vain, but I'm absent. Sure, there are many luminaries. Am I OG? Just because I create art with AI since 2015 and NFT since 2021? I don't know. I am invisible. I'm sure, also this thread will vanish in algorithmic Oblivion. I love you all. Even if you don't know it.

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 2d

HUMBLED - because I really see the proof for the thesis I wrote in my book on AI art - we are entering- and building - a new cultural epoch of human-machine creative collaboration. I wrote in the 2010ies about it and I see it more and more. This is a cultural paradigmatic shift.

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 2d

PROUD - because I was part of it, even if totally unseen and irrelevant, but nevertheless an atom of this huge movement. Of the new cultural epoch raising now. I experienced every single step here, every twist of this crazy tornado through the art history of the last decade.

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 2d

DELIGHTED - to read phenomenal historical excourses into the art world between Dada, Avant-Garde, Generative Art and GenAI.

Also delighted to see so many friends here, people I've got to know during the last decade. It's so inspiring to follow your journeys!

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 2d

Books from @Book_Fair #fbm25

"On NFTs" by @robertalice_21/ @TASCHEN.

Absolutely wonderful book on history of generative, digital and AI art in NFT context - with theoretical essays and art masterpieces. This brilliant compendium makes me delighted, proud, humbled and a bit sad.

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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, Mind is the key. And digital competence is the nurture.

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Languedoc is my goal one day :)

Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 2d

"I still do not know what art is. [...] Those things found in galleries, museums, and collectors’ living rooms — are they art? Who has declared them so? On what basis? Why do I always feel suspicion in their presence?"
Ai Wei Wei
"What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier"