David Salle - “Attention is a Fleeting Resource”

David Salle is one of the leading postmodern painters of the last forty-five years, whose layered, colliding images will make you question everything you thought you knew about how images hold meaning. What most people don't expect: David has spent the last several years training artificial intelligence on his own body of work, then using what it generates as the raw material for new paintings — not to automate art, but to find a new language for it that you've never seen before. The results break every rule of anatomy, continuity, and logic, and they are unlike anything else being made right now. Seated on one of John Chamberlain's iconic foam couches, he and host Alexandra Fairweather talk about what it means to spend a lifetime in conversation with art history – including your own.Follow our host: https://www.instagram.com/alexandrafairweather/ Follow our guest: https://www.instagram.com/david_salle/?hl=en Stay up-to-date with the John Chamberlain Estate:Follow: https://www.instagram.com/johnchamberlainestate/ To learn more about the estate’s work and mission, visit: https://www.john-chamberlain.com/ Media inquiries: chamberlain@dadagoldberg.com---------------Timestamps: 00:27 Introductions 02:15 David’s upbringing and early career07:42 Being pigeonholed as an artist10:27 Using AI in art18:08 How David trained AI to think like him 23:13 What it means to understand art27:33 David’s greatest virtue and vice28:04 Life lessons28:37 How accidents make art30:23 Advice for young artists32:17 Lightning round begins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.