Project Description
The Meaning of Life. Infinity. 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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Infinity is both a mathematical abstraction and a philosophical enigma, a concept that stretches beyond human perception and challenges the very foundations of existence. Can the mind truly grasp something without limits, or is infinity merely a construct to describe what we can never fully comprehend?
Baruch Spinoza viewed infinity as essential to understanding reality itself. He wrote, “By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite, that is, a substance consisting of infinite attributes.” For Spinoza, infinity was not just a mathematical idea but the very nature of existence, an unbounded totality that encompasses all being.
Meanwhile, Blaise Pascal approached infinity from a perspective of human limitation. He famously stated, “The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.” Pascal saw infinity as a reminder of our smallness, a concept that forces us to confront our own finiteness in the face of the vast unknown.
Today, as science pushes the boundaries of the observable universe and artificial intelligence extends our cognitive reach, the concept of infinity remains as paradoxical as ever. Is infinity a reality that surrounds us, or is it an illusion projected by our minds? Perhaps, like Spinoza suggested, it is woven into the fabric of existence itself—or, as Pascal feared, a void that forever escapes our grasp.
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L’infini est à la fois une abstraction mathématique et une énigme philosophique, un concept qui dépasse la perception humaine et remet en question les fondements mêmes de l’existence. L’esprit peut-il réellement saisir quelque chose sans limites, ou l’infini n’est-il qu’une construction pour décrire ce que nous ne pourrons jamais comprendre pleinement ?
Baruch Spinoza considérait l’infini comme essentiel à la compréhension de la réalité. Il écrivait : « Par Dieu, j’entends un être absolument infini, c’est-à-dire une substance consistant en une infinité d’attributs. » Pour Spinoza, l’infini n’était pas seulement une notion mathématique mais la nature même de l’existence, une totalité sans bornes qui englobe tout être.
Blaise Pascal, quant à lui, abordait l’infini sous l’angle de la limitation humaine. Il déclarait : « Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m’effraie. » Pour Pascal, l’infini est un rappel de notre petitesse, un concept qui nous confronte à notre propre finitude face à l’immensité de l’inconnu.