Heavily inspired by the rule-based work of Sol LeWitt- Robbie Barrat used GPT-2, OpenAI's language generation model, to generate text describing the rules of a drawing, which Barrat then follows to write a generative sketch, mirroring the mechanic of how Sol LeWitt's rule cards were executed into wall drawings. Work completed in September 2019.
An online and physical survey/group show of text-based physical artworks by TheVERSEverse in partnership with L'Avant Galerie and Librairie Métamorphoses.
This is Part 2 of an exhibition. Part 1 "Poème Objkt", a conversation between poetry and the visual arts brought to life through the liminal play of the physical and the digital, opened in October 2022 at L’Avant Galerie Vossen.
2023 Crypto Art Award Shortlist, The Lumen Prize.
