Is Yoko Ono an early prompt engineer?!

Is Yoko Ono an early prompt engineer?!

Sounds like a random question, but I think she is. She is prompting the audience to interact and participate in her art works.

So basically she has been often provided simple text prompts, to engage viewers to become agents, happily embracing the non-deterministic nature of the overall system . Sample prompts: “Observe three paintings carefully. Mix them well in your head”, “Draw a map to get lost”. Earlier version of the later which has some step by step instructions is in one of the attached pictures.

In prompt engineering we spent a lot of effort to get reliable and repeatable result. Something totally different than art, where you can utilise the non-deterministic nature of LLMs.

Just a random thought on a Saturday afternoon. No art expertise or drugs involved.

Exhibition is in the K20 in Düsseldorf at the moment.

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