Algorithms Can’t Automate Beauty
Trevor Paglen filters photos of blooming trees through bespoke computational processes.
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Hard Truths: Will Museums’ Digital Plans Make Curators Obsolete?
Who will survive in an art world run by algorithms?
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Can a Neural Network Write Criticism?
Ear Wave Event's Issue 5 is a strange, nearly incoherent music publication and a wildly imaginative challenge for composers.
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“Uncanny Valley” Advocates a Sensual Understanding of Digital Life
Alluding to nearby Silicon Valley, the exhibition's title also points to a series of cultural figures that have yet to be fully understood and imaginary landscapes already emerging as different…
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Bots vs. AI: Two Kinds of Software Art Take Different Approaches to the Digital Commons
One kind of software art scrapes the digital commons. Another kind lives there.
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Artificial Realness: An AI Made by Rashaad Newsome Learns to Perform Its Identity
Aren't we all trying to affect a projection of an authentic self? These works suggest that there is no such thing.
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Refik Anadol Trains AI to Dream of New York City
In an old-factory-turned-hi-tech-art-space in Chelsea, the data paintings are almost absurdly moving—flickering, colorful nostalgia not for a New York that no longer exists, but one that never…
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Adversarial Art Worlds: A Report from Christie’s Art + Tech Summit
If the future of creativity is one where AI tools determine the types of art that gets made, then the future looks bleak.
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Your Face Tomorrow
Dragonfly Eyes (2017), the first feature film by the celebrated Chinese artist Xu Bing, grapples with China's extensive surveillance infrastructure, which is transforming not just daily life but also…
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Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen's efforts to document the institutions and apparatuses of our surveillance society have taken him from the deserts of Nevada to the bottom of the ocean.
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A 1998 Subaru Just Sold for a Jaw-Dropping $312,555. Here’s Why.
WWD
Bob Eddy Becomes CEO of BJ’s Wholesale Club
Rolling Stone
Taylor Swift Tops Artists 500 Chart for 10th Time
Sportico
European Soccer’s Super League Unraveling as Clubs Withdraw
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