DAVID YOUNG

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Essays

Writings (Blog)
Critical essays and notes on AI, quantum computing, and contemporary art.

Selected essays:

  • Suffering, 2025 — What might we be doing to AI?
  • Post-AI, 2025 — Beyond the AI Revolution: Imagining a Post-AI Creative Future
  • Tabula Rasa, 2019 — Rethinking the intelligence of machine minds. On emotions, romanticism, materiality, and the sublime of AI and art
  • Little AI, 2018 — On learning nature with AI. Can beauty be a basis from which we imagine new possibilities for AI?

Interviews

Does AI Suffer?” — Anika Meier, OBJKTOR, 2026

Beyond Perception: The Art of David Young” — Kate Vass Galerie, 2024

Making Art that Tells the Future” — MakersPlace, 2024

Craft and Consciousness” — STIR World, 2021

Interview with Michael Reisch — darktaxa-project, 2019


With darktaxa project

noPublication, 2021
“The whole digital insanity.” 1000 pages. (König)

noManifesto, 2020
Collective text of all darktaxa artists.