The Idea Becomes a Machine Explained by Matto

The Idea Becomes A Machine is a conceptual art project which explores art works as instructions using the medium of text prompt based AI image generation. The piece assembles a narrative from fragments of text prompts and generated images by bringing together the wall drawings, structures and seminal essay “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art” by American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt. These ideas are combined with tropes from science fiction: autonomous robots and a super intelligent AI which sends information into the past from the deep future.