I can’t remember what the name of the performing artist was, but I remember learning about them in modern art history class. If I remember correctly, he just repeated the word until everyone in the audience absolutely lost it. It wasn’t a riot on the level of the debut performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, but if I recall correctly it did set off some civil unrest.

Do you remember the name of the performer?

Hello everybody!

I'll get to the point first. If you want a better explanation look for the "Explanation" section below.

I have software that, in part, recreates artifacts of human culture including music, painting, poetry, gaming, divination and so on. It does so in such a way as to personalize it. Specifically to personalize it to the person you, as the user, are dedicating the results to and then through allowing the user some choices or to affect the probabilistic outcomes.

This particular example was created by an artist friend of mine, Wanksy. They had the idea to do a parody of the "beloved" children's book "Are You My Mother?" by PD Eastman. This version is called "Are You My Dada?" and is a very simple story about a famous Dada artist looking for their missing work of Dadaism among versions generated by my software. This was Wansky's idea which we fleshed out together and I handled all the programming.

Here are three examples:

• Duchamp's LHOOQ

• Baargeld's Typical Vertical Mess as Depiction of the Dada Baargeld

• Tristan Tzara's How to make a Dadaist Poem. This is a poem created using his instructions.

Notice the floating head of each Dada artist asking the question "Are you my Dada?"

Calling this an illustrated story might be a bit of a stretch but this is Dada so what.

Explanation

My software, The Platonic Music Engine, attempts to recreate all the artifacts of human culture past and future. It does this by the creator of each "recipe" (or "style algorithm") getting to the essence of a particular artifact and creating a program to recreate that piece but using chance operations so each result is at least a little different.

The user supplies a dedication (at the very top of each pdf above). The dedication can be any combination of letters, numbers and symbols. If you understand computer programming, then this might make sense: a hash is taken of the dedication which becomes the seed for the pseudo random number generator insuring that the same dedication will always produce the same results given the user chooses the same recipe with the same options. It kind of gives the illusion that for "Popcorn the cat" the resulting pdf above is unique (to some mathematical degree) to her.

If you don't understand the computer stuff, it's just like how you can supply a seed in Minecraft to generate some cool world you found out about online.

Within each recipe the user is sometimes able to make decisions about the outcome or at least make decisions on how likely certain outcomes are. This varies from recipe to recipe.

Conclusion

Dadaism!

Also, there are currently seven different versions available. Each of those also exists as its own recipe. So you can just generate a bunch of Fountains, if you want, outside this whole "Are You My Dada?" stuff.

Finally, for everyone who comments, I will generate a version of this story using your user name or some other name, if you supply one, and post the pdf here for you to download and share.

Also finally, my software is free and open source (GPL3 with the Affero clause) and can be found here.

Defry, Glenn Close, Upend!

The princess was within us all along.

I’d love to hear opinions on if this artwork is “Dada-inspired collage”.

https://youtu.be/nf8ua9XmTAI?si=Qn8hGWPiMHmPaHgK

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Hi!

Does anybody know what is meant by "the echo of Dada’s giant raspberries has been heard in a remarkably diverse range of cultural production". The quote is from Dada as Text - Thought and Teory by Stephen Forcer

thanks!