This Saturday, we are inviting you to a new After 8 Books publication: Cooper Jacoby’s How do I Survive? The launch is happening at 6 PM, at Fitzpatrick Gallery, where Cooper’s show, The Living Substrate, is currently on display.
The artist will be in conversation with art critic Ingrid Luquet-Gad, who contributed an essay to the book.

☞ Fitzpatrick Gallery is at 123 rue de Turenne, in the 3rd arrondissement.

✶ How do I survive? was written with machines over the course of a year. I say ‘with,’ not ‘by,’ since the text was generated using a series of customized Al models trained on collections of fiction that I have arranged and tuned by trial and error. These large language models are embodied in twelve artworks. Each work has a thermostat that reads the room’s temperature and humidity. Each asks itself: How do I survive? Changes in the surrounding heat and moisture shape their responses. This book gathers bodies of text that were produced by the works as they asked themselves this question over and over again.
—C.J.

✷ Designed by N. Weltyk, How do I Survive? articulates images of the works with the text; it concludes with an essay by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, that discusses how programmes such as large language models challenge preconceptions of subjectivity and the self.
It is published by After 8 Books, in collaboration with High Art and Fitzpatrick Gallery.

✸ More info about the book here.