Fantasyland Autofiction

The Use of AI in Contemporary Art-Making

Very happy that an essay I wrote for a double blind peer reviewed journal was published with M/C Journal.

Sue Beyer looks to the mapping of autofiction in imaginary lands, using hallucinatory machine learning platforms. Metamodern thought informs Beyer’s work in asking how the conceptuality of land, which the author describes as an ‘in between’ and ‘a no man's land’, is posited on either side of a progressing AI technology and socio-culture. These types of fantasy lands are discussed in context to a metamodern structure of feeling defined as the theoretical mechanics of autofiction. The article asks how AI hallucination integrates with metamodernism by using land as a concept that is defined through data mapping. Yet the hallucinatory aspects of AI in this regard are also compared to psychogeography created by the interpretative visualisation of data, which Beyer considers a fantasy land.

Thank you to editors Malcom Bywaters and Shaun Wilson

Beyer, Sue. 2024. “Fantasyland Autofiction: The Use of AI in Contemporary Art-Making”. M/C Journal 27 (5). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3104.

https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/3104