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@ivonatau6 days 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@joanakawaharalino6 days 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
Ivona Tau@ivonatau6 days ago
I think this is part of a bigger trend toward nostalgia aesthetics. With also things like hand-drawn elements and video footage shot on older digital cameras, it's a broader attempt to differentiate from "slop" aesthetic…
Are you yearning for the past?
Ivona Tau@ivonatau6 days ago
Thanks for a very interesting read! In my opinion, there are also a few smaller art worlds adjacent to these that could be worth adding. The first is the world of digital art native galleries and institutions. We've seen…
Seven Worlds of Digital Art | A Visitor’s Guide
Arthemort7 days ago
I was so disappointed to have missed you ! I also sent you a dm on right click save account to excuse myself of the sorry state you had to experience the show in.. when i came in later no light were on (as a matter of fa…
STEMMING A FUTURE ROOTED IN NOSTALGIA | POLYGON1993
Alex Estorick@axel7 days ago
I really enjoyed visiting this exhibition @arthemort, and I’m not surprised it was so popular for a generation gripped by technostalgia. The collaboration with Mitsuhiro Arita, of Pokemon fame, was intriguing for the way…
STEMMING A FUTURE ROOTED IN NOSTALGIA | POLYGON1993
Arthemort7 days ago
Thank you, Joana, for our original discussion on the topic when I was looking at closing the press release, which undoubtedly helped me put all this into words! will add some pictures by editing the post tomorrow for eas…
STEMMING A FUTURE ROOTED IN NOSTALGIA | POLYGON1993
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino7 days ago
I loved it when you mentioned how different nationalities received it differently! Being somewhere in the middle of both cultures, I could see a lot of very Western in POLYGON’s work, but also a visible fondness and admi…
STEMMING A FUTURE ROOTED IN NOSTALGIA | POLYGON1993
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino7 days ago
super interesting read!!
STEMMING A FUTURE ROOTED IN NOSTALGIA | POLYGON1993
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino9 days ago
This is such an interesting take!!! I was wondering if there’s any sort of visible distinction when it comes to an output, when you’re hand coding vs vibecoding?
How can generative artists distinguish hand-coded art in the age of AI?
Danielle King@danielle10 days ago
This is a great suggestion, thank you @louisjebb! I too am a fan of Lepore’s work in The New Yorker - this recent one on proving you’re a human in the age of AI is fascinating: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/…
Calling all book lovers! Art book recommendations?
Louis Jebb@louisjebb12 days ago
I have long been an admirer of the historian Jill Lepore’s writing in The New Yorker — informed, concise, constructed from powerful anecdotes and laced with mordant wit — and recommend trying her The Rise and Fall of the…
Calling all book lovers! Art book recommendations?
Ivona Tau@ivonatau13 days ago
thanks for sharing that! I agree, I have actually not used the term much before either. it was deep learning mostly for me. and AI as an umbrella term for everything from very naive methods (like regression) to everythin…
Repeat the word "AI" 100 times until it does not mean anything
Piter Pasma@piterpasma13 days ago
AI? IA! IA! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! ;-) but seriously, I actually have always tried to avoid the term “AI” because it’s always been very ill-defined. even before LLMs. I used t…
Repeat the word "AI" 100 times until it does not mean anything
Charlotte Kent@kentc18 days ago
Thanks for making me think about interestingness again..away from my bookshelf but I will probably go back to Sianne Ngai on that. I remember K Allado McDowell a few years back saying a similar thing about it getting har…
When was the last time you were surprised by AI?
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino20 days ago
I love these references! Will check each one carefully this evening.
Are you yearning for the past?
Brian Droitcour@briandroitcour20 days ago
I really like the work of artists like Nicolas Sassoon, Raquel Meyers, Kerim Safa, and Kim Asendorf who use pixels (or in Sarah’s case, other obsolete media) not for nostalgia but to explore the expressive potential of t…
Are you yearning for the past?
Arthemort20 days ago
Also Kolectiv.gg was an interesting “trading card/crypto art” market place on L2 back in 2021, had a lot of feature of OG crypto artist such like Alotta Money, mostly made as “self portrait” for some reasons
Trading Card Aesthetics
Arthemort20 days ago
found them kinda of low effort but i get the temptation, if I hadnt learn more about the world of TCG recently i’d likely would have been tempted too
Trading Card Aesthetics
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