Books
EIKON #126 (Published: May 2024)
EIKON #126 (2024) published my essay about an AI opera, "Performing Utopia" by alien productions:
"The artist group alien productions, which is at the center of this issue’s focus “AI Meets Art,” also notes that, due to the omnipresence of artificial intelligence, big data, and deep learning, “the future has lost everything worth striving for. It has become a place of vague fears.”(2) For Martin Breindl, Norbert Math, and Andrea Sodomka, the artists behind the collective, the demand is simple and obvious: “What we need are better utopias.” With Performing Utopia, an AI opera for which artificial intelligences were specially trained using historical utopian texts and in the performance of which human and artificial voices then interact, they attempt to create a “musical-philosophical dispute about worlds of possibilities,” using precisely the technology that, “depending on how you look at it, augments or threatens human intelligence”—a fantastic undertaking that is then historically localized in a detailed essay by Merzmensch (pp. 54ff.). Performing Utopia has thus indeed become a hybrid of human and artificial intelligences and perceptions: “In the sense of a posthumanistic ecology, namely the realization that only intelligent networks remain capable of survival—regardless of whether humans are involved in them or not.” "
EIKON veröffentlichte mein Essay über KI-Oper "Performing Utopia" von alien productions.
CALIBANO #2. Mefistofele/Postumano. Rome: Effequ; 2023, ISBN 9791280263865
CALIBANO #2 (Published: November 2023)
The Effequ publishing house releases a collection of essays for each Teatro dell'Opera di Roma season, each thematically aligned with the stage play. Giulio Paolini always illustrates the title page, while AI artists are approached for interior illustrations.
In November 2023, for the opera "Mefistofele" (by Arrigo Boito), Effequ issued a series of essays on posthumanism. I was invited to design the interior images.
Enthralled by AI, the Faust and Mephistopheles themes, and a passion for Dadaist collage, I eagerly accepted. Collaborating with the editors, we chose a Dadaist collage style (also as a meta-irony. The artwork resulted from a synergy between myself and AI (DALL-E 3 and MidJourney).
CALIBANO #2. Mefistofele/Postumano. Rome: Effequ; 2023, ISBN 9791280263865
KI-KUNST / AI-ART (Published: September 2023)
Mehr als nur ein Hype: KI-Kunst verändert die Bildwelten, weit über die Kunst hinaus. Merzmensch erklärt die wichtigsten Programme – und blickt auf die Folgen.
Was vor wenigen Jahren noch nach Science-Fiction klang, ist mittlerweile Realität: Durch Künstliche Intelligenz lassen sich Bilder in beliebigem Stil digital erzeugen. Man gibt in Worten an, was man sehen will, und bekommt sofort Vorschläge präsentiert. In manchen Branchen herrscht deshalb Unruhe, in anderen Aufbruchsstimmung.
Doch entsteht hier wirklich Neues oder wird nur Bestehendes recycelt, gewissermaßen plagiiert? Merzmensch stellt die wichtigsten Programme und exemplarische Werke der KI-Kunst mit ihren Qualitäten und Problemen vor und unternimmt Ausblicke auf die weitere Entwicklung.
Merzmensch explores the revolution of AI art, highlighting its ability to digitally create images in any style. While this innovation sparks both excitement and unrest across industries, it raises questions about originality. Key AI art programs and their implications are examined, as Merzmensch anticipates future developments and the beginning of a new cultural epoch.
Merzmensch. Ki-Kunst (Digitale Bildkulturen). Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach K; 2023., ISBN 978-3-8031-3735-7
Am Anfang war der Prompt (2023)
Am Anfang war der Prompt. Die Wege zur Kreativität der Maschine (in: Angewandte Data Science)
Über die Kreativität der künstlichen Intelligenz ist schon viel geschrieben worden. Doch erst in den letzten Jahren, mit der Entwicklung visueller Modelle der künstlichen Intelligenz, ist es möglich geworden, sich mit der „Vorstellungskraft“ der Computer auseinanderzusetzen. Der Autor untersucht das multimodale neuronale Netzwerk DALL-E von OpenAI und zeigt anhand von Beispielen und Prompt-Design-Strategien, wie weit man das Kreative einer KI entlocken kann.
An essay about prompt design strategies in textual and visual ML models.
Alexeev, V. (2023). Am Anfang war der Prompt. Die Wege zur Kreativität der Maschine. In: Blum, L.B. (eds) Angewandte Data Science. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden, ISBN 978-3-658-39624-4
NLP and Human Factor Empathy (2021)
Natural Language Processing and Human Factor Empathy, in: Decisively Digital.
Digital strategy should consist of more than just updating your business’ desktop computers and buying the newest smartphones for your employees. It requires the reimagining of existing business processes and the implementation of the latest technologies into current business activity to enable new capabilities for your firm.
In Decisively Digital: From Creating a Culture to Designing Strategy, digital strategy advisor and author Alexander Loth leverages his extensive experience working with Microsoft, CERN, and SAP to deliver a robust and accessible exploration of what it takes for a company to unlock the potential of new digital technologies.
In the interview, published in this book, I explain how to find the balance between AI and human factor and create ethically and socially sustainable human-machine collaboration.
Alexeev, V. (2023). Natural Language Processing and Human Factor Empathy. In: Loth A. (eds) Decisively Digital. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken , ISBN 978-1-119-73728-5
Twitter Lyrik (2009)
Gedichte mit (maximal) 140 Zeichen
Beiträge aus dem Twitter-Lyrik-Wettbewerb von Literaturcafe.de und BoD
Twitter-Lyrik. literaturcafe.de und BoD, 2009 , ISBN 978-3837053180
Magazines
Harper's Magazine
Motherboard Issues
My "interview" with GPT-3, in which I applied the Questionnaire by Proust and Nabokov with a goal to find out more about my digital counterpart's identity.
Alexeev, Vladimir. "Motherboard Issues." Harper's Magazine, September 2020, pp. 17-18.
Perspektive, Issue 102-103
MERZai
Presentation of my MERZai project: AI training on Kurt Schwitters' oeuvre and creating new MERZ-Texts
in: Perspektive. Issue 102-103, 2021, verein literaturgruppe perspektive, Graz
Perspektive, Issue 74-75
die einzige sackgasse
a non-linear maze-story
in: Perspektive. Issue 74-75, Juli 2013, verein literaturgruppe perspektive, Graz, pp. 69-70
Perspektive, Issue 71
multilinguetry
multimedial and multilingual poems (in english, german, japanese and russian)
in: Perspektive. Issue 71, Juli 2012, verein literaturgruppe perspektive, Graz, p. 31
Perspektive, Issue 65-66
Die Kunst des Mit-dem-Kopf-gegen-die-Wand-schlagens
Metalingual Experiments
in: Perspektive. Issue 65-66, 2010, verein literaturgruppe perspektive, Graz, pp. 91-93
Perspektive, Issue 64
texte
inter-genre miniatures
in: Perspektive. Issue 64, 2010, verein literaturgruppe perspektive, Graz, p. 46
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- „De-ja-vu“ oder „Sieh dich nur um, Mann, wir sind doch nicht bloß Masse“ in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" / „kleine zeitung“ N4 (06/1998).
- „Der Alte mit träumerischem Lächeln“ oder „Damals bei der Kavallerie, vor Moskau“ in „kleine zeitung“ N6 (12/1998).
Together
- 1994-1995 Publications in the International Youth Magazine "Together"