Unfortunately, I am only able to see a preview of the entire response the AI has when I input the prompt. I imagine the full response is probably behind a paywall of some sort. Did you guys know that the early stages of ChatGPT often spit out responses that were incredibly strange, bigoted, and violent, so the company outsourced labor to African data firms paying incredibly low wages to workers to read and program the AI - which often included the lengthy reading and analysis of incredibly vile and disturbing text content, without proper mental health resources offered to workers distressed by the content?
The response given by the AI, from what I have to read, feels fairly comprehensive. It begins with a brief origins discussing Dada & Duchamp, as well as Neo-Dada, Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg. I don't know if there is a direct connection for myself between these artists and installation as a medium, though they certainly did push the boundaries of their respective media and what it means to create art that is object as much as imagery.
The AI speaks next about the emergence of environmental or land art in the 1960's, and about the artists Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty) and Christo/Jeanne-Claude (The Gates). There is definitely a connection here with installation as a media, land art and manipulation of the natural world being one of the most literal manifestations of creating an installed art "environment". The following paragraph briefly touches on installation's maturing in the 1970's and 80's, and artists such as Dan Flavin and Richard Serra. I would argue that Richard Serra's Arch was more sculpture than installation - while its impact and subsequent controversy may have been specifically related to the way it interacts with surrounding architecture, it is a single object and I don't know if I would consider that a created environment. Information on Dan Flavin as his work relates to the development of the Light/Space movement could be added in this segment.
The AI doesn't specifically say what the first installation artwork was. It connects with Duchamp as the originator of installation thinking, so I'd imagine it would probably point to Duchamp's Fountain.
This is all of the AI's response that I have access to.
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