Peter Freund

The essence of surface and depth: incommensurability; that is to say, radical ornamentalism and radical obscurantism.
Spain (residence), United States (citizenship)
research interests: expanded practice, experimental film, oulipo, psychoanalysis, digital performance, topology, historical memory, image-text, algorithms
affiliation: Saint Mary's College of California
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Peter Freund is a Barcelona-based artist and writer, originally from the San Francisco area (USA). The research component integral to his art practice and writing has focused on developing and mobilizing a concept of “retraction” sprung from structural impasses and non-consensus in individual and collaborative projects. Peter is Professor of Art at Saint Mary’s College of California; a visiting artist with the University of Barcelona; and a co-founder of the art collective, Adversorecto.

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  • The Wager of the Algorithm: Towards a Performatic Gesture (2025) author(s): Peter Freund published in: ArteActa – Journal for Performing Arts and Artistic Research
    The fantasy of the algorithm and, by extension, artificial intelligence imagines that each performs by executing an operational task. Yet, based on its inherent computational structure, the digital performance fails to live up to its instrumental promise. This failure foregrounds an occasion for artistic intervention. “The Wager of the Algorithm: Towards a Performatic Gesture” presents a theoretical statement (illustrated via artwork by the author) in which the overall exposition underscores a dialectic within instrumental reason itself. The “prompt” names are a shorthand for the fulcrum of this problematic.
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