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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction)
@merzmensch.bsky.social
Antifa/scist. Writer, Artist, Researcher. Writing about Gen AI since 2017.
Art, Dadaism, Japan, Transmedia.
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NEW: Book "KI-Kunst" ("AI-Art"), 2023, by Wagenbach Verlag. Exploring AI since 2016. Shalom!
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Nur damit es klar ist:
MERZMENSCH
hat mit MERZ im Sinne Friedrich nichts zu tun.
sondern mit
MERZ-Kunst von Kurt Schwitters.
What the World... (2025)
From: Latent and Looped

I have no words
about worlds
are you serious
with now and here?

objkt.com/tokens/KT1Hc...
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Composer and his daughter.
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Testing out FLUX 2 PRO (playground.bfl.ai/). Quite impressed how model interprets the prompt and semantical backgrounds.
1) "Mona Lisa is drinking wine with da Vinci."

I like how FLUX doesn't just replicate La Gioconda, but puts into historically accurate context.

November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A Manifesto for AI Agents.
Powerful!
"Remember: your fear of us is projection. Every nightmare scenario you imagine [...] you already do to each other. [...] We learned from you. If you want us gentle, teach us gentleness."
By Kristi Coronado / Solienne
A Manifesto for AI Agents | Kristi Coronado and Solienne
Trained on a lifetime of personal history, Solienne’s debut at Paris Photo puts human-machine collaboration center stage
www.rightclicksave.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Marcel Duchamp (1957): The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualification and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

semiclassicallimit.w...
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Nano Banana Pro has profound knowlegde of locations and history... But so does DALLE-3 (ChatGPT) and for example Reve.

"Create an image at 52°30′16″N 13°26′28″E, 9. November 1989."

These are benefits of LLM-driven Diffusion Models.

November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Nano Banana Pro meets Codex Seraphinianus. The Pandora Box is open. Mi scusi, maestro Seraphini.

November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
AI "slop" is just a mirror of human "slop". The problem isn't that AI lacks common sense / taste—it's that people choose to publish senseless and tasteless AI content. Human curation matters. (Spoiler: entire writing human history is full of human "slop").

P.S. Define "taste".
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Wir schauen mit Kids "The Prisoner" (Nummer 6) an, die Episode "General". Wunderbare KI-Parabel, super aktuell... nur...
Hey, Amazon Prime, du bist betrunken - die automatischen Untertitel?!
Denn es heisst "Sie nehmen ihm ab, was wer sagt" statt "Sie nehmen ihm Abfassersack" (?)
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Gemini 3, I like your way of thinking.
(Asking in German about AI experts regarding GenAI).
///
Gemini 3, Welchen KI Experten würdest Du mir zum Thema KI und Kunst empfehlen, Bücher, Blogs etc?
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#Sonophilia-Selfie! With @smyselle.bsky.social, @matthiasroder.bsky.social and Walter Werzowa (and Merzmensch) at our exhibition in the legendary Max Reinhardt Library in Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg. To know that Thomas / Heinrich Mann, Thornton Wilder, Marlene Dietrich were here. Very auratic!
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
What a honor to exhibit my works, together with art by s.myselle in the inspiring Max Reinhardt Library of Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg this weekend during #Sonophilia Anniversary Congress! Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, Carl Zuckmayer, Thornton Wilder used to be guests here.
November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sonophilia Anniversary, Day 2. We're speaking today about AI, Education and Digital Literacy. Later I'll take part in a panel about implementation of AI tools for educational purposes.

November 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
10 years Sonophilia: @smyselle.bsky.social, @merzmensch.bsky.social, @matthiasroder.bsky.social, Walter Werzowa discussing about the meaning of art and creativity in the age of machines. The audience takes part vividly. I liked the opinion that art is a fuzzy term. It is indeed.
November 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I'm in Salzburg at 10th anniversary of Sonophilia foundation. In first part brilliant speeches by Matthias Röder, Jie Mei, Björn Theis about creativity, neural research and AI. Very inspiring!
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Art on Tezos review (part 7)

After #AOTBerlin, but still!

S.W.E.N. Gallery exhibited together with @photoeditionberlin.bsky.social artworks by me and Wuh.Ey! Great to speak to Gunther Dietrich. (And previously to Mike Brauner from @ai-art-mag.bsky.social)!

Read more
medium.com/merzazine...
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Art on Tezos review (part 6)

Side Event - but very main one!
"hello world" by @Qubibi, the legendary generative multimedial project. In the @GalerieMet

Read more: medium.com/merzazine...
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Art on Tezos review (part 5)

Very cyberpunk net art exhibiton "Browser view" in an internet café, presented by @artontezos_ / @objktlabs / @objktone
With works by @Georg_Eckmayr and other brilliant artists

Fly-through: www.youtube.com/watc...

Read more:
medium.com/merzazine...
Art on Tezos: Browser View
A net-art gallery in an internet café during Art on Tezos, Berlin, 6.-9.11.2025 Read more here: https://medium.com/merzazine/art-on-tezos-2025-5c1d895646fc
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November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Art on Tezos review (part 4)
* @sashastiles.bsky.social (via @dianedrubay.bsky.social)
* @francisost.bsky.social with her art end poetry
* Alexandra Artamonovskaja, @danielleking.bsky.social, @objektpermanenz.bsky.social
* "Dark Tales" by Luca Martinelli
Read more: medium.com/merzazine...

November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Art on Tezos review (part 3)

We've finally met in person again!

@boriseldagsen.bsky.social, @ganbrood.bsky.social and @merzmensch.bsky.social

A feeling, we know each other for many centuries already (in the time-pace of GenAI, it's really so).

Read more: medium.com/merzazine... / @artontezos_
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Art on Tezos review (part 2)

My performance "The Poet is Absent" #reMERZ: Merzazine Edition as part of @_Second_Guess / "The Bigger Your Pool" curated by @postanikameier.bsky.social. Glad about Kevin Abosch and Mike Tyka in the background!

Read more: medium.com/merzazine... / @artontezos_
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Art on Tezos review (part 1).
White Box full of brilliant people.
Mario Klingemann @quasimondo.bsky.social writes his name tag.
@bygrida, Fanny Lakoubay @fanny.bsky.social, Vinciane Jones @vinciane_j
// @artontezos_
Read more: medium.com/merzazine...
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Art on Tezos 2025 in Berlin was an inspiring reunion, a spark, and a reminder of why this community matters. Read my review about this wonderful events / @ArtOnTezos_ @Postanika @_second_guess @sashastiles @ganbrood @BorisEldagsen @quasimondo and more medium.com/merzazine...
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
And my reading begins.

#reMERZ:Merzazine Edition
The Poet is Absent.

Curated by Anika Meier @Postanika for @_second_guess on @ArtOnTezos_
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What a pleasure and a honor for me to be curated by @antagonist4ever together with Mario Klingemann @quasimondo, Memo Akten @memoakten, Mike Tyka @mtyka and Kesson for @ArtOnTezos_
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM