IMITATION GAMES
Mario Carpo on the new humanism
Heir Pressure
On Succession’s eternal returns
Pride of Place
Emily LaBarge on Tate Britain’s rehang
Kenneth Anger (1927–2023)
J. Hoberman on Kenneth Anger (1927–2023)
Your Place or Mine?
Kate Sutton around Amsterdam and London Art Weekends
Under the Cover
Michelle Kuo and Stuart Comer on “Signals: How Video Transformed the World”
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PRINT February 1969
Men and Machines
Max Kozloff
This week, the editors revisit Max Kozloff’s “Men and Machines” from Artforum’s February 1969 issue. The critic’s reflections on art and technology are best read alongside our summer issue, which contains writings on artificial intelligence by hannah baer, Mario Carpo, and Zoë Hitzig.
“Comforting solipsisms do not forestall fear that our onetime extensions, the machines, are becoming our present competitors.” Written more than fifty years ago, Kozloff’s words ring with alarming prescience as staggering developments in generative AI portend the disruption and reorganization of human labor, knowledge,