Paperwork #90

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
Price range: $

Ana María Caballero

2023

NFT/Digital

Description

Though Paperwork #90 (2023)_ _appears little more than a neatly-folded piece of paper, it represents the culmination of a multi-step, AI-infused performance.

At her poetry readings, Ana Maria Caballero would ask audiences to write one-word responses to her work on pieces of paper she passed out. Using a model developed by the artist-led AI-art marketplace EmProps, she turned those one-word inputs into a collection of digital paper sculptures. In each resulting simulated paper sculpture, the background dwarfs the neatly-folded centerpiece, which even upon close inspection refuses to openly admit to its artificiality. The prompt for #90 was cuento (“story”), and indeed each of these works invents a tale of its own creation.

At an event organized by Bright Moments in Buenos Aires, Caballero created a temporary installation of hanging pieces of paper. “Ultimately, YOU are my system,” Caballero says of Paperwork’s pen-and-paper contributors_, _distilling how fleeting human input sparked the collection’s deliberate and curated outputs. Paperwork marries not only human and machine, but intention and happenstance.