Manifesto.

Dialogz is an initiative by David Guez, an artist and author whose work began with the arrival of the Web and the conception of a particular project: Le Livre des liens — The Book of Links.

From the 1990s onward, it became important to understand what art might do with the immense revolution of the Internet and what new practices could emerge from it, both artistically and socially.

Thousands of questions, intuitions and reflections followed, together with the desire to produce objects and matrices within the field of art — perhaps the only field capable of welcoming and integrating these strange forms that were still coming into being.

Above all, there was a desire to invent new forms of encounter and exchange: to create living, shifting collectives and platforms; to imagine new ways of engaging with time, individual and collective memory, the media, radical representations and the utopias of a world that had become hyperconnected.

Thirty years later, we find ourselves facing contemporary artificial intelligences and one immense question: where are we going?

Alone or together, with or without them, through refusal or submission, through thoughtful integration or in a wild, uncontrolled manner — all the way to our irreversible disappearance as human beings?

Dialogz takes up the principle of Le Livre des liens: creating dialogues between people, disciplines, works, technologies and collective imaginaries. But beyond the prompt, it also attempts to enter into dialogue with these different intelligences, artificial yet entirely real.

Dialogz is a kind of multiversal logbook with a minimal objective: to release everything that once slowed down or obstructed creation; to multiply proposals, theories and outlandish hypotheses; to bring previously separate fields into contact; and to venture further into radicality.

To be able, at last, to begin with an image, an intuition or a detail encountered in a book, a film, a poem or a simple glance, and immeasurably expand the reach of our imagination.

And who knows?

We remain — and we will remain — fragile, mortal, anxious, in love and, in that respect, different.

Welcome to Dialogz.

David Guez