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This week, the editors revisit Max Kozloff’s “Men and Machines” from Artforum’s February 1969 issue. The critic’s reflections on art and technology are best read alongside our summer issue, which contains writings on artificial intelligence by hannah baer, Mario Carpo, and Zoë Hitzig.“Comforting solipsisms do not forestall fear that our onetime extensions, the machines, are becoming our present competitors.” Written more than fifty years ago, Kozloff’s words ring with alarming prescience as staggering developments in generative AI portend the disruption and reorganization of human labor, knowledge, ....
“It has already been demonstrated that the computer can assist the sculptor to some degree; in the future it may, in effect, come to collaborate with him.” Amid the current debate about AI-generated art, we’re revisiting the remarkably prescient 1969 essay “Computer Sculpture,” in which Robert Mallary who abandoned his renowned career as an assemblagist after learning to code elucidates the then-inchoate field of cybernetic art and predicts a world in which sculptors using computers will no longer be able to “pull out the plug.”SCULPTURE IS AN EXTREMELY PHYSICAL art dependent on the skilled ....