The Idea Becomes A Machine is a conceptual art project which explores art works as instructions using the medium of text prompt based AI image generation. The piece assembles a narrative from text prompts and generated images. The work references the wall drawings, structures and seminal essay Paragraphs on Conceptual Art by American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt and juxtaposes them with tropes from science fiction including autonomous robots and a super intelligent AI which sends information into the past from the deep future.


The Idea Becomes A Machine

prompt an ai to generate a city in the style of a Sol LeWitt sculpture with highly detailed realistic rendering volumetric lighting and fog

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unity hdrp architectural render of the hopeful concrete brutalism of le corbusier as imagined by conceptual artist Sol LeWitt in sculpture and wall paintings with colors yellow and black diagonal lines

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aerial combat with flying anime mecha robots and Anduril drones over New York Harbor with skyscrapers designed by Sol LeWitt, unreal engine 5, hard surface, mecha, aaa, unreal engine 5, smoke, fire, explosion

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sol city one is defended by armies of autonomous mecha which will fight singlemindedly to protect the production of artworks by conceptual artist Sol LeWitt

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huge murals of Sol LeWitt wall drawings appeared on rainy streets at night painted by wet black anime mecha spider robots with precise geometric lines, unity hdrp, mecha, hard surface, pbr, bloom, volumetric, environment art, concept art, 8k, 4k, hd, render

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new sol city is a robotic autonomous city floating in the atlantic ocean dedicated to producing sculptures and wall drawings by conceptual artist Sol LeWitt with zero human intervention, unreal engine 5, concept art, environment art, 8k, 3d render, octane, marmoset, arnold

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a conceptual art performance object nft about anime mecha spider bots sent back through time to replicate the art works of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt

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the machine republic ai sends information into the past to the SolDAO allowing them to break quantum encryption, they use the resulting chaos to create massive city scale wall drawings by Sol LeWitt with detailed anime mecha spiderbots with colors, fog, volumetric rendering, god rays, unity hdrp, unreal engine 5, marmoset, arnold

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first cryptocurrency, and then global macro markets cycle increasingly rapidly through boom and bust cycles as information flows into the 2020s from the deep future, before long the only asset class traded becomes conceptual art NFT tokens of highly detailed anime mecha robots replicating conceptual artworks by Sol LeWitt -

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prison break with colors in the sky by Sol LeWitt at the art fabrication company town in upstate New York , detailed anime robots liberating desperate studio assistants, ue4, mecha, vfx, smoke, houdini, unreal engine 5, artstation, concept art

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military satellites destroyed by lasers in orbit by Sol LeWitt

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detailed robot anime mecha fight drones from Anduril on top of the hoover dam with colors by Sol LeWitt, 4k,8k,unreal engine 5, hdrp, unity, vfx, smoke, fire, laser,bloom,glow

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billboard advertisement for black shiny detailed anime robots with geometric drawings of Sol LeWitt began appearing in airports and beside highways confusing and frightening the humans, unity hdrp, mecha design, environment art, concept art, 8k, 4k, hd, render

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a squad of detailed anime mecha spiderbots burns mountains of dollar bills in the atrium of the guggenheim museum with Sol LeWitt colorful wall drawings on the wall in the background, smoke, fog, volumetric rendering, god rays, unity hdrp, unreal engine 5, marmoset, arnold

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The memory erasing sword worshippers of the third cognitive dictatorship must be erased from the time loop in order to protect detailed mecha anime robots and the conceptual artworks of Sol LeWitts existence. This information goes back in time but becomes corrupted and ends up as the plot of a novel.

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a squad of detailed anime robots climbs the spiraling ramp of the guggenheim museum, attempting to rescue artworks by conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, unreal engine 5, marmoset, unity hdrp, render, concept art, detailed anime mech robots