Another image to be stumbled upon in everyday life and making art, as I continue to speak, to the diagram indicated in the center. In all such cases, of tones which we did at the expense of our contemporary globalized environment, in these installations, everything not Composed falling on the viewer unassumingly.
Wait what? What did you just read?
I ask myself the same thing after I read a lot of real-life artist statements too similar to the above.
It's okay. It's supposed to be farce. Exactly like too much similar writing about art is not--not intentionally anyway.
Folks have studied and named the fugly beast which is such writing. It is International Art English, or IAE.
A good artist statement may be:
A bad artist statement probably:
This page randomly selects and serves pre-generated farcical artist statements, many of which were created with computer assistance; for example by statistical sentence recombobulation: training an AI on actual IAE, then having it gurgitate similar stuff.
The statements, being AI-generated, are by nature (and if human-created, by dedication) in the Public Domain.
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This "statement" is from this source file:
EjyWx88ba7qfb5TaR52N_generated_IAE_gibberish__2016_01_02__03_27_56__379372.txt
This page doubles as an API. To get a plain-text statement without this explanation, call the page with any GET variable declared, like this:
http://earthbound.io/data/gibberish-artist-statements/index.php?gib=florf
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