Tag: avant-garde
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From Dada to Data: What Contemporary Generative Design Can Learn
At first glance, the experimental collages of Dada and today’s generative design systems seem to share a common logic: fragmentation, recombination, and the use of existing material. Yet their cultural intentions could hardly be more different. While artists such as Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, and Kurt Schwitters used disruption and contradiction to challenge established systems…
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From Perception to Prediction
Contemporary AI systems promise adaptability, prediction, and optimization. Yet many of the concepts behind today’s data-driven technologies already emerged in the cybernetic art and design experiments of the 1960s and 1970s. The crucial difference lies in their cultural function. While postwar artists and designers developed open systems to expand perception, contemporary AI increasingly transforms systems…