After having read the previously quoted No-one Ever Cried At A Website by Matt Pearson/@zenbullets, I bought his work in progress (second but first self published) book, in electronic form this time, Novelty Waves.
Of course Rutterford did not set out to deceive anyone. He never claimed his piece was an algorithmic audio visualisation, he said the opposition. We, or I at least, chose not to listen to him and instead invented a better version in our heads. Gantz Graf was an accidental fiction, and a very sexy one at that. Only we were to blame for believing it and then going on to make it real.
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Gantz Graf was that believable future too. The good fiction. Gantz Graf was to generative artists what Arthur C Clarke’s stories were to communication engineers of the 60s and 70s. What Asimov’s tales were to AI in the 70s and 80s. What Neuromancer was to the ‘Net in the 90s and 00s. It was a feasible fiction, easily mistaken for reality. Belief in the fiction made it a reality. Much like if you believe in God hard enough sooner or later you’ll hear him talking to you.
Very interesting read, and I really enjoyed the piece of fiction in the latest part, cf above screenshot.