Captions

artificially generted text
(GPT-Neo trained on over 160,000 words),
e-ink screen
2022-2023

Captions, exhibition texts, articles, critical essays and audio guides for the blind constitute a massive textual apparatus within which each work is inevitably enveloped. The language used in these instances is strictly based on a set of rules that determine its lexical complexity, its tortuose syntax and its use of outlandish and evocative words; almost a code that even a machine could replicate without experienced readers even noticing.

The work consists of an e-ink screen of the size of a museum caption inside which, captions of non-existent works, entirely generated by artificial intelligence, continously stream. The captions are based on a collection of 160.000 words coming from captions, exhibition texts, articles, critical essays and audio guides for the blind.The extensive use of lengthy descriptions allows the viewer to create each work by himself, imagining it as he/she reads each description.

As a mandatory condition when exhibited, all the captions of the other works presented must be of the same size as the work (A6), be formatted in the same way and be hung at the same height from the floor.

Captions - installation view - 105ma Collettiva , Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation, St. Mark’s square Gallery, Venice - 2023

Captions

artificially generted text(GPT-Neo trained on over 160,000 words),e-ink screen2022-2023

artificially generted text
(GPT-Neo trained on over 160,000 words),
e-ink screen
2022-2023