Yes, my older OBJKT wallet was hacked. Somebody had access to it. From time to time he used withdraw my money. Luckily, I hadn't money there, and it was sporadically, so in case of sell I transferred to my new wallet. But I created new art project as revenge, airdropping creepy image to criminals

Thank you, I have very different prices, some are less than 1 ct :)
I just experiment without expectation. I understood that as artist I never can survive, so I do it in my "free time", hehehe, which becomes my main time meanwhile.

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To me, AI is more than just a tool. It's a creative partner in crime, ready to bring my strange ideas to life, transform randomness into magic and reflect my memories in a machin(e)'ish way. In return, I publish and film its dreams, opening them up to the world. Win win.

That's why it's silent. None of his attempts to attract attention are successful. He only gets it this by seeing that the subject is an object. Working with AI, I recognise a subject in an object. I don't anthropomorphise. I appreciate the otherness of machines. I like it.

「あの娘の名前はなんてんかな」is one fav song by Kyû-chan (Sakamoto Kyû), Japanese Elvis, an optimist with a tragic fate. Countries ≠ realities. In this song, protagonist falls in love with a beautiful figure in a window, only to discover that it is a mannequin.

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Sometimes it happens without my involvement, though. Duchamp hoped that future art would be created without hands by non-humans. Don't worry, my dear anthropocentrists, ready to lynch me with your pitchforks. We're the target group. In a good way. We perceive art. In a human way.

Yet black or blue paint is devoid of emotion. Neither do wooden planks or rubbish collected on the street and nailed to the wall by the Merz artist. It is what artists do with these things that evokes emotions. The same applies to AI. I use what AI creates in an impactful way.

People claim AI doesn't understand emotions; it's 'just a simulation'. They don't really understand the bigger picture. I was deeply moved by Malevich's Black Square, by Yves Klein's Blue Monochrome, by Schwitters's Merzbau. My Stendhal Syndrome moments:

A neon hell. The future of our past, now our present. Did the cyberpunk masterminds predict the mess we're living in? Or did they evoke it? This short poem was for me a punch in the stomach.
AI ≠ non-emotional. Many #reMERZ texts have had an intense impact on my heart and mind.

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Hallucinations! What could be better for a creative? Max Ernst called his collages "hallucinations": "a random encounter of two distant realities in an unsuitable area".

Reading what AI wrote was hilarious and exhilarating! random ≠ ridiculous. It was DADA. I saw it clearly.

Readers of Merzazine (medium.com/merzazine) will recognize here (almost) every single topic I wrote about since 2017. By training reMERZ on these texts, I was MERZblown. Different topics I was obsessed with came together and collided and merged into something unprecedented.

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In early days of transformer-driven LLMs, 2020, as GPT-3 emerged, I did a lot of experiments with human knowledge. And I came to this conclusion: Transformer-LLM ≠ stochastic parrots. It isn't just probability. It's about patterns of our knowledge. Some of them are... strange.