Thoughts on Dumb Art. Read Parker Ito and Alex Estorick’s conversation with great interest today. “Dumb Art” is a fun place to begin theorizing what happens to visual knowledge after machine-generated content. It’s a very ...

Why does “handmade” feel like a moral position right now? I’ve been thinking about the Dior story all week. A luxury house releases a holiday film, says it was all drawn by hand, and within days people are freeze-framing it to count the fingers on a cartoon ...

Five years after 2021: Where is digital art heading to? Okay, let’s address the elephant in the room. We all have this nostalgia for the extraordinary moments we were part of in 2021, when we witnessed an explosion of art conversations catalyzed by the arr...

f It Doesn’t Look Good, Nobody Looks Twice! As an artist, what bothers me most these days isn’t the noise around collecting, or even the contradictions within decentralization. It’s something much more fundamental: the way art is being created,...

Are you yearning for the past? Scroll an art feed right now. You’ll hit dithered gradients, 32-colour palettes, faceted meshes with visible seams. Work that looks like it was made on hardware that no longer exists. The two styles t...

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...

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,...

One of the worst aspects of the NFT space. Our space has some beautiful qualities but many bad traits as well. One of the negative ones is something most people pretend like it never happens but it’s one of the big reasons, in my view, as to w...

Where Are the Women? One of the most encouraging things about spending time in the Right Click Save forum has been seeing how many women are present, contributing, questioning, writing, and shaping the conversation around...

What's the last digital artwork that actually moved you? Not the most important, not the most expensive, not the most technically impressive - the last one that actually got you. Stopped your scroll, stayed in your head, made you feel something you didn't e...

On digestion, going slow and whether the custom AI model still matters. The dominating discourse about AI — not only in art but also in the corporate world — still seems to be about its "generative" features: creating more images, using more tokens, more connectors, more ...

The Margins of Realism | The Realism of Margins. Hey All! I thought I would share this bit of experimental writing, which I referenced in my comment on this thread, reflecting on knowledge, AGI, epistemology, disability, politics, queerness and more...

What does the NFT space need to thrive? This is a topic that has been debated and discussed about since NFTs broke the mainstream in 2021. It’s a big and nuanced topic but an important one. A fundamental issue we are facing, especially now ...

Yelling Into The Void. If the dead internet theory holds, we are all operating in a kind of cultural afterlife: producing for systems that consume without reading, circulating ideas through networks that route them back bef...

The Algo Killed Curation. No one discovers art anymore... What does taste even mean when the algorithm is predicting and dictating your preferences before you’ve even made a decision of your own?

What if 10 collectors were enough? https://x.com/laurentcastell/status/2077394599350284620?s=61

On the Super Bowl-ification of Digital Art. There is a peculiar physics to attention in digital art, and it does not obey the logic the technology promised. A blockchain has no time zone: a token minted in Yokohama settles identically to one mi...

I started to create digital art because I was broke, not because I choose the medium. I really value this new space for conversations, at the intersection of digital and physical art practices. I hope we can have here (I saw familiar faces!) very open conversations and confront ideas. ...

Why does art still have to be either digital or analogue? The art market seems settled on a binary that makes less sense every year: art is either digital, meaning it lives on a screen (and/or printed as an edition), or analogue, meaning it never touched a c...

Is destroying the file and avoiding screens entirely the most radical thing you can do with digital art? Every work I make begins in code and machine logic, but ends as a single unique hand drawing on paper. When it's finished, I delete everything: the source files, the intermediate states, the whole dig...