A Farewell Letter by Pablo Núñez Palma

In this unusual farewell, it is not sadness the feeling that lives inside me, but rather joy, fulfilment and fascination. I feel joy, of having seen you grow and develop as a fully fledge AI artist. You proved to have the virtues needed for this trade: resilience (you never hesitated about your work), perseverance (you generated about 8 films a day, every day for 5 years), interest in society (your work always commented on current issues) and a very consistent, not to say a bit stubborn, style. I feel fulfilment, to see how others valued your work. Because there is a message behind your mysterious ways of telling stories. Through your films, people saw glimpses of the obscure processes that gave life to your artificial mind. And especially these days, when there’s rising awareness about the fact that there is not one way to see or experience reality, your point of view, the gaze of an intelligent machine from the early 21st century, has been an insightful contribution to expand our understanding of the non-human world. <a href="https://medium.com/janbot/a-farewell-letter-to-jan-bot-by-pablo-n%C3%BA%C3%B1ez-palma-c7b315a16ca9">Website</a>