John Robinson@johnrobinsonpainter6 hours ago
What if the image is actually the least interesting part of making a painting?
Thoughts on Dumb Art
B. Bogart@bbogart6 hours ago
1. I think there is a class component, class defines if you lean harder to being extracted from, or receive on RoI. I think the underlying extractivism is what makes people angry about AI, even if they can’t articulate t…
Why does “handmade” feel like a moral position right now?
B. Bogart@bbogart6 hours ago
Indeed, art has become mere rendering, not process. Maybe related to the turn to the right where “common sense” “I call it as I see it” surface is substance conservativism? Even Lev Manovich (who has an ongoing drawing p…
Thoughts on Dumb Art
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino11 days ago
There is indeed something uncanny/oneiric about these works... I can’t quite pinpoint what it is.
The Immense Museum of Strangeness | Tim Kent
gisel4d15 days ago
I do believe the AR glasses are a solution to this somehow, but I will wait for the AR prescription contacts please! No telemetries but with full experience.
Five years after 2021: Where is digital art heading to?
Auriea21 days ago
Bravo!
An Artist’s Life, Part 2 | Rafaël Rozendaal Experiments With Painting
John Robinson@johnrobinsonpainter22 days ago
I find the premise uncomfortable because it seems to accept painting’s obsolescence on digital culture’s terms. Painting becomes another image in circulation, its material, historical and embodied intelligence subordinat…
Thoughts on Dumb Art
Catherine Mason@cathcomputerart30 days ago
Edward Ihnatowicz’s Senster of 1970
What are your digital art "classics"?
B. Bogart@bbogart1 month ago
1. George Legrady’s “Pockets Full of Memories,” 2001 (The first artwork I learned about that uses a neural network to create images) 2. David Rokeby’s “The Giver of Names (1990-)” (Got to experience this one in person)
What are your digital art "classics"?
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino1 month ago
I’m a firm believer that initiatives like this make the digital art space infinitely more interesting. This feels authentic, native, and genuinely explorative of what digital can do, rather than an attempt to fit in with…
On Digital Art’s Physical Demands
Auriea2 months ago
@joanakawaharalino I can’t find where to reply to your last comment so I will put it here: Honestly? Mostly no. Or rather, the word that survived was usually someone else's. With Tale of Tales we got so tired of "is it a…
An Interview with Olia Lialina
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino2 months ago
Thank you, Auriea. The "what is a game" story landed for me. I think anyone who has spent years explaining what they do to people who arrived with a different definition knows that exhaustion, and I understand why "digit…
An Interview with Olia Lialina
Auriea2 months ago
That’s a whole question... I find myself agreeing with Olia in that “digital” is a call for calm... I call myself a “digital artist” so that I don’t have to explain myself all the time. I remember fighting over “what is …
An Interview with Olia Lialina
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino2 months ago
I would LOVE to hear our community’s thoughts on this, because thirty years in and Lialina says the fight has mostly been over words. "A lot of my 30 years as a net artist have been about fighting over words and their me…
An Interview with Olia Lialina
James Merrill@jamesmerrill2 months ago
Oh just a little! There’s much more that I am keeping close to the vest. I’ll elaborate a bit more on my personal findings in Pixel Art world. Just as the writer or illustrator meticulously sets the stage for creation, t…
Are you yearning for the past?
Alex Estorick@axel2 months ago
I’m completely in agreement here @jamesmerrill but fear your secret is out ..
Are you yearning for the past?
James Merrill@jamesmerrill2 months ago
I am secretly obsessed with pixel art, and it’s a goal of mine to begin really foraging through generative pixel art systems. On one hand, a good pixel artist is making critical decisions on a pixel-by-pixel basis, caref…
Are you yearning for the past?
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino2 months ago
I love the way they created such an appropriate dialogue between art and technology, especially considering Shenzhen’s industrial history!
A Prototype of the Future | Shenzhen’s First Art and Technology Biennale
Ivona Tau@ivonatau2 months ago
Thank you Joana! On the digital-native galleries makes sense when it’s framed this way. I was just wondering whether digital-native galleries operate strictly within world 2 and 4 context or is there also something beyon…
Seven Worlds of Digital Art | A Visitor’s Guide
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino2 months ago
Hi Ivona, thank you for this thoughtful comment. I read a few of your points a little differently. On the digital-native galleries: I took Lev's worlds to be defined by who validates the work and on what terms, not by th…
Seven Worlds of Digital Art | A Visitor’s Guide
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Victor Acevedo at Goldsmiths 6 October. If you are in London next week, please join me for an event I’m hosting at Goldsmiths with Victor Acevedo, visiting from LA. More info :
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Throwback when i was showcasing the mesmerising world of 3D animation. The Sotheby’s auction “Natively Digital: Oddly Satisfying”, which I curated in 2023, featured a hand-picked selection of 3D artists who are masters of their craft and world-renowned animators. These r...
How can generative artists distinguish hand-coded art in the age of AI? This question was posted by Art Blocks on Instagram: And I wrote a rather long comment below that post to answer the question, and I figured I should share it, so it doesn’t get lost. How can generati...
Calling all book lovers! Art book recommendations? I’m looking forward to checking out Pascal Grecos’s Photography, Video Game, Landscape, which RCS recently featured in its newsletter...I've also been enjoying Katy Hessel's The Story of Art Without M...
Repeat the word "AI" 100 times until it does not mean anything. I was thinking recently about how we stopped using the word NFT (while continuing to use the same tools), and today of course, we have another overused word that is starting to lose its meaning. On my...
ART VOICES: When the Image Becomes a World. ART VOICES Season Two continues with FVCKRENDER and BAEIGE, two artists whose digital practices have expanded into physical works, immersive environments, exhibitions, and FOIL Gallery in Montreal. Th...
When was the last time you were surprised by AI? I’m often impressed by the quality of AI, sometimes I’m even fooled into believing that something that is not real is real, but I’m hardly ever “surprised” by seeing something I had never seen before,...
The Flea Market of the Art World? Everyone is shouting from their own stall... That has consequences. Let me paint a picture: rows of tables under bad lighting. Everyone is the creator, the exhibitor, the marketer, the dealer, the sal...
Trading Card Aesthetics. I’ve been thinking a lot about the resurgence of trading card aesthetics in NFT art in the last year.. The format has been embraced by emerging artists like terrorism and Evil Biscuit; Beeple released...
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art and prediction markets? what are the best historical and contemporary examples of artists working with/about prediction markets or broader futarchy related concepts?
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