2026—AI DialogueNoiseSound ArtCritical
When We Talk About Arts
Scripted AI dialogue over aggressive noise — a caustic reckoning with artistic ego and the systems of power that artists inhabit, reproduce, and rarely acknowledge.
Scripted dialogue between two AI voices, performed over aggressive noise.
Artists are the demonstration of every disappointing and repulsive social value. They are cocky, selfish, ambitious — but without compassion or kindness. Art and artworks have become a shield that justifies every action artists take, and people love them for it. For what? Every good trait we inherit and protect gradually fades away.
This work takes that contradiction seriously — and implicates itself in it.
Script
Speaker 1What is music? What is art itself?
Speaker 2That would depend on so many aspects. You can't just define this in one sentence. For me, art is what it is — what people think and what they have to say.
Speaker 1In other words, art is only made for artists themselves, right?
Speaker 2That's a bit—
Speaker 1You know, I hate artists. More than anything else. I blame myself for being one, because I'm starting to have similar traits that I never had before I started doing art.
Speaker 2I think I see what you're trying to say. But what traits are you talking about? Because being an artist is freedom — you can do and say everything you want. They create such beautiful things…
Speaker 1That's exactly the problem. You know what else that describes? Being a dick. Artists are just dicks wearing fancy clothes. Self-centered, cocky, always think they are the best. When they are composing, it's not — I'm doing this for any good cause. They do it to feel better about themselves, and to say to others: my taste and my work is better than all of you. They love to be worshipped. They need it. What so-called artists produce is totally self-interested and self-serving.
Speaker 2I don't believe all artists are like that. And the work — the appreciation of art has nothing to do with what kind of person the composer is, right?
Speaker 1Half of them aren't even good. They're average. But they figured out — if you act like you have standards, people assume you have talent. If you dismiss enough things, people think you must know something. Contempt is cheap. Anyone can do it. Not all artists are like that. But enough are.
Speaker 2So they're just bullying people.
Speaker 1Yes. That's exactly what it is. Just bullying. Same thing, better costume.
Speaker 2And the worst part is — art is supposed to be the one place where this doesn't exist. Art is supposed to have no hierarchy, no boundaries.
Speaker 1Art is the worst place for this. Because artists are the best at justifying it. At least everywhere else, people admit it's about power. Here they hide behind their work. I'm not being cruel. I just have standards and my work is good. Everyone else's is bad.
Speaker 2And yet — what you're doing right now is no different from what you just described.
Speaker 1I'm one of them after all. And there's nothing that could change that. This world is sick. Full of self-centered people who care less, do less. I don't believe in survival of the fittest. Maybe the whole world runs on nothing but desire. Kindness, courage, compassion — you start to realize these are only for the weak. Or tools the strong use to manage the weak. When you stand on that stage, when people listen to your work — can they see what kind of person you are? Do they care? Absolutely not. We are the people who perfectly demonstrate everything toxic about this society. We admire the strong, discriminate against the weak, remain selfish and self-centered — as long as we write good songs and put on a good performance. There is no difference between artists and the capitalism we claim to hate. We run on the exact same logic: desire for power, the need to judge others. People nod along, agreeing that being this kind of person is the right way to live. Being special, being unique, being successful — that's what every artist tells themselves. That ideology gives people a shield. It builds a bubble. We never face the truth — it only teaches us to crave fame and power. And what pisses me off most? People who take shortcuts. People with zero skill, zero thought — using AI to do all their work, calling it their own. That is the world we live in. The morality and rules of this society are broken. Artists have always been part of that. The perfect example of it.