As a publication and editorial manager, producer, web developer, academic artist and ‘cognitive research traveller’, I am always busy with perspectives. Both with beautiful visions and shocking images from everyday news. . . . . . . . . Since my earliest youth I have been asking myself how perception can be captured and trying to find out how images are created. . . . . . . . . In the beginning, I concentrated on artistic realisation and technical aspects. . . . . . . . . During my art studies I became more and more interested in how different media affect viewers. . . . . . . . . Various observations have finally led me to the question of whether there can be a common perception and a collective image consciousness that is independent of geographical, cultural or social differences. . . . . . . . . Until the time I started focussing on the inner images in particular.
Reflecting reality in this and similar ways is what makes my artistic work unique, writes Johannes Holzmann.
As a ‘cognitive research traveller’, writes Rüdiger Andorfer, I am an artistic researcher driven by philosophy and science who is consistently on the trail of the primal theme of the arts: the function of human consciousness at the boundaries of the imaginary, the symbolic and the real.
The Great Resonance
In 2015, I decided to work on just one painting in my artistic career and to describe the creation of this (or one) image scientifically. The first artistic impulse resulted in a resonance painting and the subsequent research led to the manuscript for an artist’s book and this online presence.
In a manuscript of around 500 pages, I examine the fascinating interface between human perception and collective visual consciousness and get to the bottom of the phenomena that make one of the greatest collective imaginations of our time possible: the idea of a globally distributed superintelligence, a co-evolution between man and machine.
In the spirit of a living book, aspects of the manuscript are taken up here and brought together to analyse the idea and vision of a human-AI design. In doing so, I am following the call of many experts such as Geoffrey Hinton, Stuart Russell, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun and Nick Bostrom, to turn the development and integration of artificial (super) intelligence into a broad collective and constructive debate.
So far, little has been said about the imagination of humans and machines in the discussion about artificial intelligence. This is where this project comes in. It explores the question of how humans imagine something, attempts to clarify the question of whether machines are perhaps already capable of ‘imagining something’, and investigates what a co-evolution and shared vision of humans and machines could look like in order to promote peaceful global development.
The aim is to gain an overview of the basic principles that cause humanity to polarise politically on the one hand and to focus on unity and cohesion on the other.
Support this project
This entirely self-financed project is developing an artistic-scientific model that sheds light on the contradictory nature of people as a result of natural phenomena. To this end, the complex dynamics are discussed and concepts for a peaceful and prosperous future in the form of distributed superintelligence are developed.
Support this project by purchasing an oil painting measuring 80 x 130 cm at https://www.saatchiart.com/udofon or an NFT at https://opensea.io/UFON. Visit me in my studio in Vienna/Austria and choose from the hundreds of drawings and canvases of my early work. To make an appointment, please contact me by E-Mail.