Why computer-generated art and literature is ultimately boring (at least when it's an end in itself), because generative systems, including today's generative AI, boil down to glorified kaleidoscopes:

http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/kaleidoscope_constraint/

I wrote this as lecture notes for a university conference in 2020. Since no proceedings of that conference were published, I finally uploaded it to my homepage.

It pretty much summarizes my 2006 dissertation and why I got bored with 'new media', though I could not always escape its discourse. In retrospect, its last paragraph also seems to contain some accurate predictions for ChatGPT, Dall-E & Co.

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