Project Description
The Meaning of Life. God. ChatGPT-4o. 2025
Artificial Intelligence. ChatGPT-4o. Laser Projector. Sound
Infinite Loop
2025
(Excerpt)
Dimensions variable
This work is composed of 1 laser display
The Meaning of Life is an artistic work in which a laser display projects eleven texts generated by artificial intelligence. These texts attempt to answer our most fundamental questions: the meaning of life, happiness, consciousness, mortality, infinity, God…
Like philosophy, AI offers no fixed truth. Its answers evolve with each update (GPT-4, GPT-5, GPT-6…), shaped by its time, its data, and its own technical capacities. What AI asserts today may be contradicted tomorrow. It becomes a metaphor for the human quest for meaning: unstable, infinite, in perpetual recomposition.
The Meaning of Life follows in the tradition of Conceptual Art. Here, meaning is neither given nor permanent. It emerges from the moment and the perception of each viewer. The work enters into dialogue with “One and Three Chairs” by Joseph Kosuth, which questions the very nature of knowledge, and “Today” by On Kawara, where time becomes both subject and material.
What if thinking was no longer exclusive to humans? If an artificial intelligence, without consciousness, creates its own visions of existence, what is left of our singularity? The work does not answer. It suspends the question, like an enigma left open to our perception.
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The concept of God has shaped civilizations, inspired revolutions, and sparked endless philosophical debates. Is God a necessary being, the foundation of existence itself, or a construct born of human longing? Does God exist beyond time and space, or is divinity an idea that evolves with culture?
Baruch Spinoza saw God as synonymous with nature, rejecting the idea of a personal deity. He wrote, “God is the immanent cause of all things, not the external cause.” For Spinoza, God was not a being that interfered in the universe but rather the very fabric of existence, the infinite, self-sustaining reality that underlies all things.
In contrast, Søren Kierkegaard approached God as an existential leap of faith. He argued that reason alone could not prove God’s existence, and that faith was a deeply personal, almost paradoxical act. “To have faith is to lose your mind and to win God.” For Kierkegaard, God is not just a concept but a lived experience, something encountered through commitment and belief rather than logical demonstration.
In today’s world, where artificial intelligence, quantum mechanics, and human consciousness challenge traditional ideas of existence, the question of God remains as vital as ever. Whether seen as a cosmic force, a necessary moral foundation, or a product of the human search for meaning, God continues to shape our understanding of reality. Perhaps the concept of God is not about certainty, but about the unending human desire to seek beyond what we can see.
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Le concept de Dieu a façonné les civilisations, inspiré des révolutions et nourri des débats philosophiques sans fin. Dieu est-il un être nécessaire, le fondement même de l’existence, ou une construction née du besoin humain de transcendance ? Dieu existe-t-il au-delà du temps et de l’espace, ou bien la divinité est-elle une idée qui évolue avec la culture ?
Baruch Spinoza considérait Dieu comme synonyme de la nature, rejetant l’idée d’un dieu personnel. Il écrivait : « Dieu est la cause immanente de toutes choses, non la cause extérieure. » Pour Spinoza, Dieu n’est pas un être intervenant dans l’univers, mais plutôt la trame même de l’existence, une réalité infinie et autosuffisante qui sous-tend toute chose.
À l’inverse, Søren Kierkegaard voyait Dieu comme un saut existentiel dans la foi. Il affirmait que la raison seule ne pouvait prouver l’existence de Dieu et que la foi était un acte profondément personnel, presque paradoxal. « Avoir la foi, c’est perdre la raison pour gagner Dieu. » Pour Kierkegaard, Dieu n’est pas seulement un concept mais une expérience vécue, rencontrée à travers l’engagement et la croyance plutôt que par la démonstration logique.