Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk [electronic resource].

Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art 2021

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In their space race the gurus of the NewSpace movement are expanding an imaginary that hybridizes individualism, libertarianism, neoliberal economics, counterculture and utopianism. Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk plays with these cultural references, taking inspiration from the most emblematic statements spoken or tweeted by Elon Musk in recent years. Daniel Rourke, a London-based writer, artist and academic, has resorted to working with the OpenAI Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) language model to imagine and narrate chronicles from a near future in which blockchains have materialized and the deepfakes of Bezos and Musk have colonized Mars. The fictional universe thus created by human and non-human imagination builds a literary counterpart to IOCOSE’s latest works – the video animations Pointing at a New Planet (2020) and Free from History (2021) – presented on the occasion of the All of Your Base exhibition at Aksioma | Project Space in Ljubljana.
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Artificial intelligence
Artists' writings
Automation
Colonization
Computational intelligence
Cosmology

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Daniel Rourke
Janez Fakin Janša
Marcela Okretič
Derek Marsh Snyder
Luka Umek
Sonja Grdina