Artificial Intelligence, Glitch, and the Unmaking of Identity in the Art of Mario Klingemann

Abstract

This article attempts to reinterpret the work of Mario Klingemann, one of the leading representatives of generative art, in light of the concept of dé-coïncidence formulated by François Jullien. The focus is on the question of how artistic practices utilizing artificial intelligence can constitute a contemporary realization of the philosophy of a rupture form, identity and meaning. By analysing selected works by Klingemann, such as Neural Glitch, Memories of Passersby I and Imposture Series, the author shows that generative art not only blurs the boundaries between the author and the system, intention and chance, but also becomes a space of rupture, a discontinuity in which something new emerges. Jullien’s thoughts, combined with the aesthetics of glitch, the ephemerality of the image and the dispersion of authorship, allow us to understand generativity not as a technology, but as a philosophical category of creative separation. In this sense, the article suggests that generative art can be read as a practice of dé-coïncidence, as a space where form “ceases to be itself”, opening to the unknown and unpredictable.