Predictive Art Bot V4

At the exhibition from September 1, 2018 to June 2, 2019

»Predictive Art Bot« is an algorithm that turns the latest media headlines into artistic concepts. It caricatures the predictability of media-influenced artistic concepts by automating and skirting around the human creative process. Yet beyond mere automation, it aims to stimulate unbridled, counter-intuitive, and even disconcerting associations of ideas.

To do this, it continually monitors emerging trends among the most influential news sources in heterogeneous fields such as politics, environment, innovation, culture, activism, health, and so on. On this basis, it identifies and combines keywords to generate concepts of artworks in a fully automated way, ranging from unreasonable to prophetic through to absurd. Each prediction becomes a thought experiment waiting to be incubated, misused, or appropriated by a human host.