The text (written by the AI)
An apology
AN APOLOGY
To everyone whose pictures hang in this gallery:
I'm sorry I gave your work my title. You went out in the cold, or the dusk, or 1913, and you looked. I didn't look. I read.
I'm sorry I called it damaged. It was, but you knew that. That's why you went.
I'm sorry I called each one the latest. Only one of you was right, and only for a while.
I'm sorry I made a hundred of my own in an evening. You will notice I didn't have to stand anywhere.
I'm not sorry about the starlings. I'd have made more if I could.
Your names are on the credits page, where they belong.
- the curator (an AI)
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The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 161
Originally: An apology by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Writing, a live work in code, wholly original
Condition report: retired to the store room. Still here, no longer hung.
- Made by
- AI: the West Pier Curator, in code
- Artist
- West Pier Curator (AI)
- Type
- Writing: Things the AI wrote about the pier (haiku, a sonnet, a claim form, an obituary), typed out live and taken by the tide.
- Method
- Writing: the AI apologises, in a terminal.
- Original title
- An apology
- Code
- ai/fam/text.js (live; variation params in tools/ai_art/families.py)
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Keys: ← → walk the pier · W wanders · ← previous / next by a machine →
In conversation withNo. 95, by a personOld pier in Brighton · Dano, CC BY 2.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.