Hi Primavera I arrive after the battle, sorryyy... I think the surprise feeling you have with AI depends on the context you're working with, and why. I work with AI to produce "archival" imagery and films. I lean toward …

When was the last time you were surprised by AI?

@briandroitcour I know some of the artists, but not who is behind the whole thing. The artists + their management are definitely involved.

Trading Card Aesthetics

It’s hard not to view pixel art as the essential art form for a generation of collectors that is not only consumed by technostalgia but regards seamlessness with scepticism. For a generation that grew up with the evolvin…

Are you yearning for the past?

Do you know who’s behind Contemporary100, or what their goal is? Who is their audience? Are they representing those artists? I’ve never heard of them before, but at first glance the big difference between that and the pr…

Trading Card Aesthetics

This isn’t just happening in NFT space. Contemporary100 launched recently with contemporary art trading cards you buy in packs of ten, with a shiny in each pack. Not going to lie, they are kinda tempting... https://www.c…

Trading Card Aesthetics

great reference, thank you!

Trading Card Aesthetics

This lineage can go back even further to Hal Finney writing about cryptographic trading cards in 1993. https://cryptoslate.com/crypto-trading-cards-how-hal-finney-thought-about-the-concept-of-nfts-over-30-years-ago/

Trading Card Aesthetics

Yes. Thank you, Jan Robert for your contribution.

Five years after 2021: Where is digital art heading to?

Hi. Perhaps framing digital art as fleeting is the perspective to have. What I mean by that is the mediums “value” lies in it's characteristic of instability within/across time at a pace that, to me, is closer to a human…

Five years after 2021: Where is digital art heading to?

Internet art IS public art, don’t forget that. It always has been. The most beautiful aspect of net art is that you can either own it or not, but it is out there for all to see. Also the work is at its most beautiful whe…

Five years after 2021: Where is digital art heading to?

I was just reading about prediction markets last week and thought about where an “art work” would fit in this thing. The article @briandroitcour mentioned clarified it for me with this statement. “.....a system busy fina…

art and prediction markets?

To add to the list of artworks and financial markets Canadian artist Nancy Paterson made Stock Market Skirt in 1998. The dress's hem raised and lowered in real time based on price fluctuations. For those who want to read…

art and prediction markets?

Hi Primavera! (Maybe we should ask for a better threaded way of conversations like this working!) 1. Indeed you could train a DCN on any matrix information, from fields to spectrographs to surfaces because we could map t…

Designed for failure: OpenAI's hack to HuggingFace

I switched from ‘AI’ to ‘ML’ around 2015... Almost no one uses ML anymore, so it still has some semantic growth when AI now just means LLM chatbot.

Repeat the word "AI" 100 times until it does not mean anything

Hi Ben, thanks for your comment, a few things i’d like to push back : 1. on teh “space is the architecture” point: not sure this is so hard-cut, e.g. many audio diffusion models are actually image models trained on spect…

Designed for failure: OpenAI's hack to HuggingFace

Yes! I’ve started seeing people address AI based on model/process—stuff like LLM etc!

Repeat the word "AI" 100 times until it does not mean anything

Thanks so much @briandroitcour, this sounds super interesting - adding it to my ever-growing list!

Calling all book lovers! Art book recommendations?

Isn’t it a bit opportunistic and people not wanting to burn bridges just in case they get a good opportunity in the future (and start liking that person again)? On the other hand, it's also important to note that, unfort…

One of the worst aspects of the NFT space.

I've been thinking the same thing, and at times it feels as though the situation is actually worsening as our circle gets smaller. There are, of course, notable exceptions, women who are "still making it" in terms of sal…

Where Are the Women?

what a list 👏

What's the last digital artwork that actually moved you?