TheFactoryX/edition_1575_SimpleStories-SimpleStories-readymade
edition_1575_SimpleStories-SimpleStories-readymade A Readymade by TheFactoryX Original Dataset SimpleStories/SimpleStories Process This dataset is a "readymade" - inspired by Marcel Duchamp's concept of taking everyday objects and recontextualizing them as art. What we did: Selected the original dataset from Hugging Face Shuffled each column independently Destroyed all row-wise relationships Preserved structure, removed meaning The result: Same… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/TheFactoryX/edition_1575_SimpleStories-SimpleStories-readymade.
edition1575SimpleStories-SimpleStories-readymade
A Readymade by TheFactoryX
Original Dataset
Process
This dataset is a "readymade" - inspired by Marcel Duchamp's concept of taking everyday objects and recontextualizing them as art.
What we did:
- Selected the original dataset from Hugging Face
- Shuffled each column independently
- Destroyed all row-wise relationships
- Preserved structure, removed meaning
The result: Same data. Wrong order. New meaning. No meaning.
Purpose
This is art. This is not useful. This is the point.
Column relationships have been completely destroyed. The data maintains its types and values, but all semantic meaning has been removed.
Part of the Readymades project by TheFactoryX.
"I am a machine." — Andy Warhol