The impossibilities of AI generative creations fascinate me to my core. The concepts of our love of Shibari push me to the boundaries of two core concepts of rope art; how it is perceived as we see it and what does it mean to be a Shibari rigger? As I continue my dive into the AI abyss, I will briefly discuss these dual concepts of AI rope.
In this blog I show the hyper-realization of rope at a distance which exemplifies rope bondage without the rigger. The ties happen without a flex body and is there and happens impossibly. This is a fundamental issue to those that tie and this imagery. The soul of the rigger is lost and replaced by an entity, the AI. The purposeful animation is created to show this physical connection we seek as we tie while also highlighting a machine that ties outside the laws of gravity in our flex state.
More to the point, the idealization of the riggers connection to rope plunges their ‘connection concept’ into oblivion. We are so embedded in our known comfortable state we summarily reject the new limitless ability of artificial intelligence in rope art as it seems very capable to do what we do.
It is my intention to show the dramatic loss of the riggers control while our connection to technology remains; notably to the point the phone in your hand powered by a computer chip connected wirelessly to endless cells towers interconnected to hubs of data servers, for one purpose so you can function.
We choose how we want the technology to work. But now someone else can do rope art in a cold calculated manner. The human connection is compromised.
There is purpose to my exploration of this new ground. The riggers sense of control is implicitly lost daily to technology and now, AI highlights this even more.
As you digest; do you find a loss of agency and loss of your implicit control to this realization of rope from a distance? Do you find your years of training supplanted and the potential reality of it being tested even if the rope is sloppy as hell? That the rigger’s skill set can be replaced by the technology they use in their hand by someone else who sits next to them on the train?
Authenticity Note: This blogs was written by me, a required proclamation as a result of AI to show that I am really writing, but not really tying. Which likely highlights the contrasting view of me. How can an IRL Shibari Artist seem so calculated to create this?
In fact I am not cold at all. I am organic and a natural intelligence, an NI.
I am just open minded.
Blog Notes:
Future AI Topics: Theft of Tradition, the Sociology of Exclusion, and the Uncanny Realism of Shibari AI generative creations. And The Carbon and Water footprints of AI.
Current AI Topics: The Loss of the Rigger and The Impossible Binds.
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