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Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol, 1962 gives control of the artwork to the machine;

By reprinting the same mould repeatedly, variations in the outcome occur, producing a unique image each time;

Warhol used a screen print, a machine;

It presses ink through a stencil, producing an identical picture each time. By not replacing the ink, its depletion altered the image of each print;

He gave control of the artwork to the machine;

Letting it decide the outcome;

With the same intention, we have given the machine, an AI (DALL E), control over the result;

Feeding it Warhol’s same portrait of Marilyn Monroe and then infinitely reproducing that image;

Generating variations, then variations of variations, over and over again, creating an endless chain of reproductions for as long as we can be fucked;

Eventually, Warhol ran out of ink;

We won’t;