An artificial definition of intelligence is the capacity of systems to generate evidence for their own existence. This involves solving problems via action and perception, curiosity and creative capacity, which is generative. Similar to how the labor theory of value is not really about work, but the reproduction of power, artificial intelligence changes our relationship to the value of self-evidence.
If a distributed network of intelligent systems learns from nature, explicit symbolic communication and mathematical reasoning make "the work of art" an organic manifestation of intelligence as seen from above. At each physical spatiotemporal scale of interest, one can identify systems coupled to the funtional motifs of purposeful persistence. Any point from which the human and machine may be perceived as an edgescape of nested characteristics is a site of active interference.
I am applying to graduate school because the scope of interests relevant to my vocation as an art critic who publishes for art magazines, and as a freelance art worker working adjacent to technology, have narrowed. Meanwhile, the acceleration of information systems and the need to develop tools that change the way people think about problems such as land, climate and energy (or what I would choose to negotiate as 'intelligence') exponentially expanded the notion of what it means to think and respond creatively to the present day.
Rather than any one subject matter, medium, material or theme, I am interested in the contexts of collaboration and how norm-sending, message sending protocols, event transactions and state changes envelop the history of representation. The structure and resources available through a research institution feel integral to the arts practice that I would like to have, which is one that uses organizational and institutional development as the basis of technological extension.
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