Constant Dullaart's Brain Rot Pipeline: Automated Art in the Age of AI
On May 1, Dutch artist Constant Dullaart, also a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, introduced a groundbreaking project titled the 'brain rot pipeline.' This automated initiative produces a video essay every hour, resulting in approximately 720 videos devoted to the theme of authenticity. Dullaart's work examines the effects of artificial intelligence on authorship and creativity, expressing concerns about how machines increasingly anticipate audience preferences. In a conversation with Anika Meier for SLEEK, he critiques the concept of 'brain rot' as a form of mental junk food and discusses the necessity of having control over creative tools.
Key facts
- Constant Dullaart is a Dutch artist and Professor of Networked Materiality at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg.
- His latest project is an automated 'brain rot pipeline' that publishes a new AI-produced video essay every hour.
- Since May 1, the machine has produced around 720 videos on the theme of authenticity.
- Dullaart defines brain rot as 'junk food' that creates short dopamine loops.
- High Retention, Slow Delivery (2014) involved spending $5,000 to buy Instagram followers for artists and curators.
- The Possibility of an Army (2015) created 13,000 fake Facebook accounts of Hessian soldiers.
- Dullaart founded Common.Garden, an online platform, to have control over the rules of communication.
- He cites McKenzie Wark's A Hacker Manifesto to argue that owning information infrastructure is like owning land.
- The term 'cuck internet' was coined by internet culture researcher Aidan Walker.
- Dullaart discusses the 'humanize' feature in MIDI as an early example of programming imperfection to sound human.
Entities
Artists
- Constant Dullaart
- Anika Meier
- Silvia Dal Dosso
- Aidan Walker
- Beeple
- Mat Dryhurst
- Evan Roth
- James Powderly
- Jonah Peretti
- Sol LeWitt
- Alexei Shulgin
- Olia Lialina
- JODI
- Vuk Ćosić
- Eva and Franco Mattes
- Brad Troemel
- Artie Vierkant
- Rafael Rozendaal
- Jeremy Bailey
- Travess Smalley
- Amalia Ulman
- Jon Rafman
- Brian Droitcour
- Jonas Lund
- Hans Ulrich Obrist
- Jeff Koons
- Ai Weiwei
- Klaus Biesenbach
- Alexandra Domanović
- Donna Haraway
- Parker Ito
- Geert Lovink
- McKenzie Wark
- Mark Zuckerberg
Institutions
- Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
- SLEEK
- Jeu de Paume
- HMKV
- Polytechnic Museum
- Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
- University of Marburg
- Soho House
- Carroll/Fletcher
- DIS Magazine
- FACT Liverpool
- Art Basel Miami Beach
- Clusterduck
- Free Art and Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab)
- Eyebeam
- BuzzFeed
- This American Life
- Improv Everywhere
- Kunsthaus Langenthal
- UMOCA
Locations
- Nuremberg
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Paris
- France
- Dortmund
- Moscow
- Russia
- Liverpool
- United Kingdom
- Miami Beach
- United States
- Berlin
- Rotterdam
- New York
- Marburg
- Manila
- Philippines
- Bangladesh
- Pakistan
- Salt Lake City
- Ljubljana
- Slovenia