As Gilda Williams says
im precision in no way damages the term, but in fact contributes to making it so evocative and resilient
And also not many artists explicitly with the gothic, but rather I am seeing themes and motifs within them.
Borrowed term from literature but has multitude of different contexts and meanings
Why the gothic and not horror/body horror/abject Sense of humour, excessiveness, flamboyance, adolence
ideas for videos, staircases, attick, secret doors, tunnels
Twins, bodily other, like the not quite ai twin thing? AI hallucinations
We tend to talk about AI as theft, but how does it fit into the paradim of appropriation?
Otherness as a relative term (tehn there, here now)
I’m interested in the Gothic because it shows otherness, which is societal Because its slippery Because its can be theatrical Because its camp, speaks to unfairness Personal interest in the genre Point horror, goosebumps
AI itself becomes the Gothic villain or the invention of the mad scientist (see that youtube guy who was like lets get rid of algorithms) Mark Edmundson, Nightmare on Main Steet Angels, Sadomasochism and the Culture of the Gothic, 1997 The Oh no what have we done of it all.
Also my interest in illness and metaphors around illness and wellness Mark Edmundson, Nightmare on Main Steet Angels, Sadomasochism and the Culture of the Gothic, 1997 Susan Sontag even