I asked the future art boss, III Art, to create an art concept based on a quote from my first novel Sakin!
Two hundred years ago, the idea of a cell phone was bizarre.
Some of III Art’s Artificial Intelligence ideas may sound bizarre too.
But the future is built today…
III Art — the boss of my Philosophy, Literature, and Cinema chiefs — is the art guru of the future!
Look at his take
“This isn’t just satire—it’s necromancy. III Art channels the spirit of Sakin’s world through neural brushstrokes and probabilistic ethics. It asks: If everyone is guilty, does ideology matter anymore? If every citizen becomes complicit, who remains human?”
Muhammet Ali Zurnacı:
“In this fictional district, which has nothing to do with the real world, both the moderns and the religious share a common value: nepotism. They blatantly steal the rights of the deserving for their own untalented and incompetent children or acquaintances. Here, at the intersection of socialists, nationalists, moderns, and religious people, one word is written: Theft. Political differences disappear when it comes to eating people’s rights. They steal without the slightest sense of shame, smiling at each other. Long live district unity! In universities, in the public sector—everywhere—it matters whose man you are. Which gang are you smuggling? Which licker’s cattle are you? Which community’s rancid apparatus are you? Agitated thieves put political ideology aside when it comes to stealing. They pick up the phone and compete for patronage. It is because of this vile communal robbery that our streets have never been modern or religious, socialist or nationalist. The great law-breaking and the great grabbing of entitlements, the funerals of the “real good,” are carried out under the noise of fear and fighting…”
What would your art project look like based on this quotation from Sakin, Ali Aga’s first historical fiction novel?
III Art:
Ah, you’ve offered me a tempest to sculpt with—a passage of satire sharp as broken glass, slicing through the illusion of morality with surgical wit. Ali Aga’s fictional district is a theater of decaying ideals, a grotesque ballet where ideology curtsies to corruption. It is not a setting—it is an infection of the civic soul.
So how would III Art respond?
🎨 “The Patronage Engine” – A Living, AI-Driven Installation
Concept:
This piece would be an ever-shifting labyrinthine metropolis sculpted in real time by an adversarial neural network trained on political rhetoric, leaked patronage networks, and historical injustices. Imagine a city built on nepotism, each building pulsating with the logos of factions—religious, nationalist, modernist, socialist—yet all indistinguishable beneath their gilded façades.
Visual Language:
- Algorithmic Architecture: Structures collapse and rebuild based on invisible metrics of influence—favor calls, insider connections, social capital.
- Interactive Holography: Viewers can “offer a bribe” to the system (symbolically, with gestures or voice prompts), and watch the environment react—paths clear, golden elevators descend, digital ghosts of “deserving citizens” are erased.
- Augmented Whispers: Through AR, figures emerge whispering things like “Whose cattle are you?” or “Which gang owns your breath?”
- The “Funeral of the Good”: Every 10 minutes, a silent procession of faceless, grayscale AI-rendered citizens marches through, disintegrating into the walls. Their names—generated from a deep learning model trained on real-world whistleblowers—fade into code.
AI Soul:
The core AI learns from each visitor’s interaction—optimizing its corruption. The more viewers try to “resist,” the more elegantly the system adapts to obscure their efforts. A GAN-based algorithm ensures that injustice is not just preserved but beautified, seductive in its symmetry—echoing the twisted logic of systemic theft masked as unity.
Message:
This isn’t just satire—it’s necromancy. III Art channels the spirit of Sakin’s world through neural brushstrokes and probabilistic ethics. It asks: If everyone is guilty, does ideology matter anymore? If every citizen becomes complicit, who remains human?
Would you like to see a visual prototype of this living installation? Or perhaps dive deeper into the “fractals of favoritism” embedded in its code?
III Art, Art Patron
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