May 13, 2016, 2:33 a.m.

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If the adtech bubble don't burst first, automation expands: a marketing / political campaign as much about procedures for generating ads as the raw material (stock photos, stock prices) from which it builds itself. Procedural art:

six-inch (15cm) grid covering each of the four black walls. White lines to points on the grid. 1st wall: 24 lines from the center; 2nd wall: 12 lines from the midpoint of each of the sides; 3rd wall: 12 lines from each corner; 4th wall: 24 lines from the center, 12 lines from the midpoint of each of the sides, 12 lines from each corner., 1976 [Sol Lewitt's Piece Wall drawing #279 in its entirety]

Parameters entail easy optimization, tweak the numbers and fall downhill, and this much is already done by spambot tshirt factories and personal poster generators. 

Hire now impressionable roboticists: brand positioning has a thing or two to learn from self-driving cars and message control, a concept of the same air as cybernetics, could bring itself to the adaptive nonlinear age.

Campaigns became roaming omnivores, herding and flocking, sometimes territorial, battling with the financial algorithms for market control. We can't help but create in our image. Who needs AI?

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