Dreaming Matter: Pina and AI as an Oracle of Forms and Absences

Authors

  • Rodrigo Ferrarezi USP - Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v34i1pe234128

Keywords:

Visual Arts , Creative processes, Generative art, Cyberculture, visual poetics

Abstract

This essay discusses the complexity of authorship and agency in collaborative processes between humans and generative systems, drawing on the contributions of computer science theorists such as Lucia Santaella and Yuk Hui regarding the ambiguity between autonomy and automatism in the cybernetic universe. Based on these articulations, I present as a case study and backbone of the article the artistic series Πίνα (Pina), analyzed as a poetic unfolding of these issues. The objects from this body of work challenge certain boundaries between reproduction and innovation, emphasizing the role of AIs not only as a tool, but also as a partner that, even unintentionally, exposes some of the structures that shape an artistic production process, highlighting both the power and the limitations of generative systems in creative action.

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Author Biography

  • Rodrigo Ferrarezi, USP - Universidade de São Paulo

    Rodrigo Ferrarezi is a master's student in Visual Poetics in the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at ECA/USP, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Hugo Fernando Salinas Fortes Júnior.

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Published

2025-11-17

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 1 (2025)

Section

Special Issue Quimeras: Art and Science worlds in times of ecological urgency

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How to Cite

Ferrarezi, R. (2025). Dreaming Matter: Pina and AI as an Oracle of Forms and Absences. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 34(1), e234128. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v34i1pe234128