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?

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

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

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?

I love these references! Will check each one carefully this evening.

Are you yearning for the past?

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?

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

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

Trading cards saved my ass during my exhibition. I sold more cards than I did art...https://phantasm.world/ Discussing with folks from this environment, I see them as collectibles collectors but not ready to branch towar…

Trading Card Aesthetics

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?