Charlotte Kent@kentc4 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@joanakawaharalino6 days ago
I love these references! Will check each one carefully this evening.
Are you yearning for the past?
Brian Droitcour@briandroitcour6 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?
Arthemort6 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
Arthemort6 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
Arthemort6 days ago
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
Marine Bléhaut@mblehaut9 days ago
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?
George Henry Rowe@georgehenryrowe11 days ago
@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
Alex Estorick@axel12 days ago
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?
Brian Droitcour@briandroitcour12 days ago
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
George Henry Rowe@georgehenryrowe12 days ago
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
Brian Droitcour@briandroitcour15 days ago
great reference, thank you!
Trading Card Aesthetics
cody lee edison@codyleeedison15 days ago
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
Pierre Gervois@pgervois17 days ago
Yes. Thank you, Jan Robert for your contribution.
Five years after 2021: Where is digital art heading to?
cogitechnaut17 days ago
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?
Jan Robert Leegte@leegte18 days ago
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?
cogitechnaut19 days ago
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?
cogitechnaut19 days ago
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?
B. Bogart@bbogart23 days ago
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
B. Bogart@bbogart23 days ago
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
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