A New Realism
Increasingly, painters are using digital tools and computer-generated images to capture the tone and texture of reality.
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Commentary | 28/9/2023
Increasingly, painters are using digital tools and computer-generated images to capture the tone and texture of reality.
Criticism | 26/9/2023
Jonathan Chomko’s pixel-based water simulator critiques the fetishes of randomization and realism in generative art.
Conversations | 20/9/2023
Duane King of Highlight and Paul Schmidt of fxhash reflect on the evolving field of code-based art the platforms supporting it.
Collections | 14/9/2023
Founded by Czech entrepreneur Karel Komárek, the Basel-based collection has an explicit focus on digital and new media art.
Criticism | 12/9/2023
Generations of artists have experimented with automated handwriting, illustrating the ongoing entanglement of humans and machines.
Criticism | 7/9/2023
The significance of contemporary generative art hinges on how it brings disparate kinds of similarity and difference into unreconciled—and productive—tension.
Commentary | 5/9/2023
The restoration of Keith Haring’s 1987 computer drawings proposes a new standard for using the blockchain to store and authenticate historical digital art.
Criticism | 31/8/2023
A collection of NFTs inhabited by a mysterious, shapeshifting sea creature raises existential questions about the simulation of autonomous life forms.
Collections | 29/8/2023
A longtime admirer (and practioner) of software art has become an avid collector of generative work.
News | 24/8/2023
A special issue on generative art features essays by participants in a writing workshop organized with Art Blocks.
Criticism | 22/8/2023
Deafbeef’s latest project calls back to Eadweard Muybridge’s nineteenth-century motion studies to meditate on the relationship between media and time on the blockchain.
Criticism | 17/8/2023
Two exhibitions that engage with the trendy notion of “worldbuilding” offer different visions of what the role of audiences in artist-conceived worlds can be.
Criticism | 10/8/2023
Gabriel Massan’s gorgeous adventure game incorporates NFTs as player souvenirs, rather than using the blockchain to elaborate on the game’s collaborative spirit.
Criticism | 3/8/2023
Andreas Gysin and Sidi Vanetti's numerical art, the collaborative generative art project "N=12," Takakura Kazuki's AI installation, and Mark Fingerhut's malware ride reviewed in brief
Conversations | 28/7/2023
Does artificial intelligence understand the timeline of its own existence? This simulated exchange, generated almost entirely by a version of GPT-4, probes that question.
Criticism | 26/7/2023
Looking at works by Ian Cheng, Refik Anadol, and Jon Rafman involves a sensory awareness of the AI engaged behind the scenes.
Conversations | 24/7/2023
A studio visit with the self-described "digital shaman," who uses AI to explore ancient culture and the human psyche
Conversations | 20/7/2023
The artists discuss their work made with generative AI—and what the technology can teach us about the human mind.
Conversations | 17/7/2023
In this virtual studio visit, the artist shares her ideas about social media's impact on girls, and discusses her use of creative coding.
Criticism | 14/7/2023
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s algorithmically designed gardens cater to the needs of insects and plants, rather than the aesthetic preferences of humans.
Guest Editor
The tools of web3 tools offer some exciting possibilities for art organizations. But it’s still crucial to build human networks around them.
Commentary | 25/5/2023
How is the web3 principle of decentralization changing the way art is funded, produced, collected, and displayed?
News | 12/4/2023
Outland’s new guest editor Refraction DAO is creating alternative models for organizing and funding an international network of exhibitions and events.
Conversations | 26/4/2023
The community structures of Friends with Benefits and Refraction DAO are informed by web3 tools, but not determined by them.