Jenny Hu — Looking Outwards 03

 Dio (Consummation) is a sculpture by Ben Snell, an artist based in Queens and a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon. What I admire most about this work is actually the poetic process and perspective Ben takes. The first paragraph really says it all:

“Dio is the name of my computer. I trained it to study classical sculpture, then asked it to close its eyes and dream of a new sculpture—one which has never before been seen. Then, I ground Dio to dust and re-formed it into its dream. This sculpture is both the computer and the computer’s dream.”

This piece was generated by an algorithm, but he doesn’t go into its specifics. Instead, we’re asked to think about the algorithm as the computer’s dream, thoughts that it owns.