For Your Eyes Only aims to stimulate a conversation with contemporary artists about the future of human visual culture, and to investigate how they are working, in different ways, on the development of a visual language capable to resist machine vision and its implications, and to improve human visual communication—a post-AI, posthuman human vision. The exhibition includes images of diverse nature and origin, submitted as answers to questions of how humans will continue to see and understand images differently than machines do. The images in this exhibition can be used like answers, but they are rather proofs. They have been sent by a human to another human, each of them carrying much more than what I asked for. They are not delivering an answer, they are the answer. Try to read them, and you’ll soon find out that they have as many readings as readers. Enjoy, they’re for your eyes only. —Domenico Quaranta

Feral File #011 - For Your Eyes Only

According to the art critic Arthur C. Danto, “To see something as art requires something the eye cannot decry—an atmosphere of artistic theory, a knowledge of the history of art: an artworld.” Since 2014, Jonas Lund has been making abstract paintings using elements sampled from paintings by other emerging artists, optimized for market success. The morphing animations in “Smart Cut” are made out of images from this series that were not selected for production: works as part of the process, works as they were before they got “good,” left-over abstractions. Turned into animations, these discarded images—not art, according to Lund's “artistic theory”—have been selected by a smart cut algorithm as the best ones and automatically pieced together.

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