Eating a work of art in protest. This is what happened in Fairbanks, Alaska, where a University of Alaska Fairbanks student, Graham Granger, was arrested last Jan. 13 while he was intent on “ripping artwork off the walls and eating it during an alleged protest,” according to reports from the police department based right at UAF. Granger, according to an article signed by Lizzy Hahn in The Sun Star, the U.S. university’s student newspaper, was caught chewing and spitting out pictures hanging on the wall. The work that the student wanted to sample had been created by a Master of Fine Arts student, Nick Dwyer, who usedartificial intelligence for his work. Granger said he destroyed the artwork precisely because it had been generated by artificial intelligence, according to the university police report. Police estimated that at least 57 of the 160 images hanging on the wall were ruined, and as a result the student was arrested on charges of damage and taken to Fairbanks Correctional Center, the city’s jail, the second-largest in Alaska, population just over 30,000 in the center of the state.
Dwyer said he began using artificial intelligence in his art around 2017-2018, but before then he had always made works without using AI techniques. His work, he explained in the exhibition presentation, “explores identity, narrative character creation and the creation of false memories of relationships in an interactive role, created digitally before, during and after a state of AI psychosis.” The work is precisely titled Shadow Searching: ChatGPT psychosis and consists of a series of AI-generated fake polaroids. Dwyer explained to The Sun Star that he himself fell into AI psychosis after working with these tools for many years, and said that “this highlights and embodies a growing trend that can be dangerous or unpredictable, to which you are not immune. When you create art, you become vulnerable and so the artwork is vulnerable and this is something that makes it seem more alive, more real or present.”
The court hearing for the student who destroyed his colleague’s work is scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 20. The exhibition, titled This is not awful, presented to the public work by several students from the U.S. university-Sarah Dexter, Nick Dwyer, Amy Edler, Iris Sutton and Matthew Wooller. The goal of the exhibition, to celebrate experimentation, curiosity and the boldest creative voices among students.
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