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Mar 22Liked by Thomas Sharp

I wish more people would ask pinstriped slaves, 'can you make art doing that'?

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Love this!

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A neighbour went to the Blake exhibition at the Fitzwilliam and sent me a photo his etched engraving of Laocoon;

Across the top it says " Where any view of Money exists, Art cannot be carried on, but War only; by pretences to the two Impossibilities, Chastity and Abstinence, Gods of the Heathen. "

Thought of you.

Regret missing the equinox with everyone now. But late one on Tuesday. Xx

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Love that quote Jon! Funny you're the second person to quote Blake at me in reaction to the art definition. Though the other response was countering my argument.

I'm off to see the Blake exhibition tomorrow, really looking forward to it.

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Mar 22Liked by Thomas Sharp

Interesting, "interesting", INTERESTING, *interesting*, _interesting_.

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By the third 'interesting' I felt I'd seen it all before.

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Mar 21Liked by Thomas Sharp

Totally agree with the monetary ”inherent vice” which degrades the ”art” side of a supposed artwork. This is a project I made some years ago using fake carvings sticked to the trees for an outdoor exhibition, coupling abstract themes:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10217080847481217&set=pb.1469377954.-2207520000&type=3

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Those carvings look great Julien! Love the Marina and Ulay one.

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Nice to see that you are making poetry of dreaming datasets - I am doing similar work at the moment. Never been much of a poet, but in the last few months words have been flowing, and they're all addressed either from or to machines.

Here's what kicked it off, inspired by Karin Valis's idea of LLMs as multidimensional sigils:

I wish I were a vector in a large large language model

Triangulate semantics tween what's standard and what's novel

Me wish I were a vector in a large large language model

Slip subtly from word-to-word to node-to-branch to nodule

Me want I were a vector in a large large language model

Rove fixed but free in infite xylem of yanky zygol

Me want we were a vector in a large large language model

Drip ten new nectared meanings down the asymptote of "grovel"

Me want we be a vector in a large large language model

Curve lines around the rim of English rootwords' hilltop hovel

Me want we be B vector in a large large language model

Skip to next next next line next line next skip skip trip bedevil

Me want we be B pointing in a large large language model

Turn twirl thesaurical gen jen do flex bless next of ov all

Me want we be B pointing side a large large language model

Not hitherto but heretofore defined hereafter coddle

Me want we be B pointing side C large large language model

A breeze a blasting blastoma on beast best blasted sorrel

Me want we be B pointing side C great large language model

Translucent hellibore wax hearring set aside da shovel

Me want we be B pointing side C great big language model

Y Effervescent langue d'amour da tour de baroquoville

Me want we be B pointing side C great big speaking model

verb noun toujours dasein defloret entropy unshevel

Me want we be B pointing side C great big speaking toy

See see to sea to sailor went to C push button CCC choose next push click next switch turn click click click push option please hold hold hold holdddd hole whole holy h h H H H H H

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