so i clicked on this cos i kept seeing sketchy looking comics using open-source mascots as characeters floating around fedi and it seemed vaguely interesting.
this post explains a little about the idea of surrealism, tho it does seem a bit obsessed with ‘true’ surrealism (automatic/un-selfconscious art) over the aesthetic (which it regards as the commercial extract – how does this relate to surreal films like David Lynch’s work which is surreal but also extremely not automatic – anyway).
so there is no surreal aesthetic, really, because surrealism describes a process of art-making.
anyway, unix surrealism is an expression of computer-enabled surrealism, computer-enabled fully automatic (un-self-conscious) art. which is cool, i guess.
i hope the surrealists don’t have any unfortunate fascist associations, like the futurists. tho knowing about Dalí, i’m not hopeful. i don’t think these surrealists do.