Éric Maillet collects and reconstitutes information, individual thoughts and stories gathered from diverse times and spaces. Through receivers installed in various city spots, his interactive works shares personal stories with the public, generating interactive and collective narratives. Underlying his works is a proposal for a new linguistic approach to art: the interchange and intercommunity of voluntary, spontaneous and multiple perspectives overcoming the preexisting ‘doxa’ of art.
The Art Critic Bot is a software which produces, randomly or upon request, false texts about art and sends them on Twitter. Stylistically typical phrases are summoned then combined by the software to produce a Tweet that lies between the probable and the parody. The Art Critic Bot runs on a computer visible in an exhibition place. It self-generates an arbitrary sentence of art criticism at random moments, which can also be activated by the visitor. The sentences can be read both on the exhibited display screen and on Twitter by any follower of @art_cr itic_bot. The concept that critical commentaries can be represented by regular patterns creates a strange awareness to the viewers. This criticism-bot which started off as a satire alludes the potentiality of the war machine of criticism that menaces to substitute reality.
