PROMPT – Album 2025
Instead of traditional compositions, the album contains spoken prompts designed to question the role of the artist in times of AI-produced music. The project allows listeners to either follow the prompts as a purely auditory experience or generate them using an AI tool of their choice
Recorded at MIT, Stata Center
Computer Scienece and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Room 32-G449
Cambridge, MA.
PROMT ART – Manifesto
§ 1 Premise
Anyone can generate impressive music or images today. All one needs is an AI tool and a prompt.
§ 2 Deduction
Thus, the creation of stimulating art becomes inflationary. The only thing that makes art stand out under these circumstances is a good prompt, a prompt that expresses an original idea.
§ 3 Conclusion
A new form of art emerges that focuses on the beauty of the prompt for its own sake. It leaves the execution of the prompt to AI or other artists. This new form of art is called PROMPT ART.
§ 4 Definition
To define PROMPT ART, it is necessary to first define a regular prompt. The word prompt in this context originates in the language of computer science. A prompt is an abstract instruction for a task. PROMPT ART, then, is the presentation of an instruction for an artwork without executing it.
§ 5 Form
To become PROMPT ART, the prompt must be presented as a completed artwork. Only this distinguishes it from a prompt for an artwork that has not yet been created. The direct way to mark this difference is to express the prompt in the medium it refers to. For example, the prompt for music needs to be audible since music is art we listen to. It could be read aloud or a reading of it could be recorded. The prompt for a painting could be painted on a canvas, emphasized by a frame. And so on. The prompt is not executed, but delivered in the medium it refers to.
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