Art Assignment Bot

"Make an etching investigating the exploitation of punctures, due in 31 minutes." While that isn't realistically impossible due to the nature of etching, the concept behind this assignment is where all the fun lies. Meet the "Art Assignment Bot" designed by Jeff Thompson, an artist, professor and programmer. The purpose of Art Assignment Bot is to use code to produce a randomly generated art assignment using pre-selected words that teachers would typically assign. The fun part about it is the outside of the box thinking that happens when you are rolling the dice for different combinations. Some range from the absurd, to curious to actually pretty fun ideas! Assignments are tweeted every hour on the hour and some examples include: "Create a 3D rendering about your relationship to obligations, due on Sun, Apr 25, 2021." "Construct an etching with teeths, due tomorrow." "Construct a sound installation denying the exploitation of cats on the internet, due tomorrow."

"Build a photograph about your dream world, due tomorrow." 

"Make an exhibition about time, due in 28 seconds."

The tweets can be found under twitter handle @ArtAssignBot or you can follow the link here

Some people follow just to see what strange tweets the bot will generate, others follow through in bringing the projects to life. Jeffrey Thompson's webpage also provides a list of people who have submitted some finished assignments which you can find here