Art & Tech The San Francisco Ballet Is Catching Heat for Promoting Its ‘Nutcracker’ Performances With A.I.-Generated Art The company used Midjourney to generate the promotional images. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 23, 2022
Art & Tech Gm, Frens! The Art World’s Discord Membership Exploded Amid the NFT Bubble. Can It Survive the Crypto Winter? When artists and galleries rushed into NFTs, they also moved onto a niche social media app. Then, everything shifted. By Josie Thaddeus-Johns, Dec 20, 2022
Art & Tech Independent Artists Are Fighting Back Against A.I. Image Generators With Innovative Online Protests The image-sharing site ArtStation has become the latest flashpoint in the debate over A.I.-generated art. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 16, 2022
Art & Tech Why Meitu, China’s Adorable A.I. Anime Filter, Just Skyrocketed to the Top of International App Charts Meitu's "A.I. Art" tool turns selfies into anime avatars. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 14, 2022
Art & Tech Bizarre, Biomorphic Housing Structures Known as ‘Binishells’ Are Popping Up in Los Angeles Binishells are made by inflating a gigantic neoprene bladder with air, then covering it in a thin coat of reinforced spray-on concrete. By Laurie Pike, Dec 9, 2022
Art & Tech I Uploaded Photos of Myself to the New Lensa A.I. Portrait Generator. The Results Were Stunning, Strange… and Super Creepy My friend surprised me with a set of 100 A.I.-generated Lensa portraits. Here's what the app delivered. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 8, 2022
Art & Tech A Viral A.I. Generator, Which Allows Users to Conjure Up Their Own Self-Portraits, Has Sparked New Concerns About Creator Rights Lensa AI images have been flooding social media over the past weeks. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 6, 2022
Art & Tech DALL-E, the A.I. Art App, Is the Breakout Star of a New Show About Dreams at Florida’s Dalí Museum Visitors can watch images from their dreams stripped of their individual significance and fused together into a single AI hivemind fantasy. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 1, 2022
Art & Tech A Top A.I. Art Generator’s Latest Version Prohibits Mimicking Work by Other Artists. Users Are Calling It ‘Censorship’ The latest update to Stable Diffusion also includes an adult content filter limiting the generation of NSFW images. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 1, 2022
Art & Tech An Artist and Chef Collaborated to Imagine the Dinner of the Future. It Involves Animation, Virtual Reality, and… Not Being Able to See Your Food A multi-sensory experience at Superblue Miami lets you dine in virtual reality. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 1, 2022
Art & Tech Synthesizer Pioneer Moog Is Re-Issuing Its Legendary 1970 Model Favored by David Bowie and Dr. Dre It reads like an art object, hand-built from locally sourced Appalachian-cherrywood around a hand-finished aluminum chassis. By Vittoria Benzine, Nov 23, 2022
Art & Tech DeviantArt’s New A.I. Generator Angers Artists for Promising—But Failing—to Protect Creator’s Rights Hours after rolling out DreamUp, DeviantArt was forced to change its terms of use following backlash from artists. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 15, 2022
Art & Tech Meta Has Significantly Downsized Open Arts, Its In-House Art Team, as Part of Its Largest Round of Layoffs Ever At least seven Open Arts employees appear to have been among Meta's 11,000 layoffs. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 15, 2022
Art & Tech In Pictures: DALL-E Makes Its Gallery Debut in a Show Where All the Works Were Created With an Assist From A.I. Until December 29, 2022, Bitforms Gallery is hosting what it bills as 'the first DALL-E-inspired art exhibition.' By Vittoria Benzine, Nov 13, 2022
Art & Tech DeviantArt Is Selling Its New A.I. Art Tool as a Way for Creators to Take Back Control… From A.I. DeviantArt is addressing concerns about creator's rights with a tool it calls fair and responsible. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 11, 2022
