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5 votes
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Brad Pitt has unveiled his sculptures in a lakeside art museum in Finland alongside Australian musician Nick Cave and British sculptor Thomas Houseago
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This 'boring' album cover is hiding a masterpiece
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An AI-generated artwork won first place at a state fair fine arts competition, and artists are pissed
26 votes -
One week of Stable Diffusion
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4.2 gigabytes, or: how to draw anything
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Street Fighter II street art - Interview with Hong Kong based artist, Lazian
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Lexica - Search engine for images generated via stable diffusion
10 votes -
Gross games about flesh and stuff
7 votes -
Stable Diffusion public release - a fully open text-to-image generator
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Why a gang of Spanish grannies covered an entire street in woolly blankets
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New political party in Denmark, whose policies are derived entirely from artificial intelligence, hopes to stand in the country's next general election in June 2023
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Ukrainian exhibition that was left stranded in a gallery in Denmark, unable to return to Kyiv when Russia invaded, has reopened after being adopted by the EU
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The Daily Wrong - AI Generated Lies Every Day
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Radical pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg dies at 93 – many of his sculptures adorn public spaces in the US and around the world
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What's a good website for sharing art and computer-generated images?
I was granted access to DALL-E today and I'm wondering what's a good place to collect and share silly computer-generated photos? I have quite a few places already that will do this, but none seem...
I was granted access to DALL-E today and I'm wondering what's a good place to collect and share silly computer-generated photos? I have quite a few places already that will do this, but none seem quite right:
- Twitter - It works, but I'm not sure I want to mix photo sharing with other stuff.
- Mastodon - My account is mostly inactive and I'm hardly following anyone I actually know, or who does much picture sharing.
- Facebook - I don't really want to spam the relatives.
- Google Photos - I use this for sharing personal photos with immediate family. I made an album for MidJourney but it isn't quite convenient enough.
- Tildes - no direct photo sharing here! I could link to an album, though.
8 votes -
DALL-E 2 prompt book
8 votes -
FBI raids Orlando museum and seized all twenty-five works in their Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition after an affidavit called into question their origin and their authenticity
5 votes -
Some of the world's most celebrated authors have written manuscripts that won't be published for a century – why?
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Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who sketched the prophet Muhammad's head on a dog's body, has died in a traffic accident
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How DALL-E could power a creative revolution
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Iamamiwhoami – Call My Name (2022)
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Oslo's vast National Museum opens with tapestry of 400 reindeer skulls – the ‘grey box’ has been eight years and £500m in the making
9 votes -
Mona Lisa targeted in Louvre cake-throwing attack. Famous work by Leonardo da Vinci wasn't damaged.
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Art, fashion, and the French Revolution
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The race to save Ukraine’s sacred art
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The hidden histories of To-Go container art
4 votes -
You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.
7 votes -
Occlusion Grotesque. An experimental, organic typeface
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Why does this lady have a fly on her head?
6 votes -
MidJourney sharpens style of AI art
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Depth of field
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The case for nudity
8 votes -
Norway's £500m National Museum to open after eight-year wait – director apologises for delays that have kept Munch's The Scream out of public view
7 votes -
Shovel Knight Art Assets licensed under Creative Commons 4.0
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Jenny Hval: ‘I was a bit of a brat about marriage’
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Hiding art in basements, returning loans, reopening as bomb shelters: How Ukraine’s museums are handling the Russian invasion
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Astronomic Comics – Generative Comic Books
11 votes -
America is running on fumes | In film, science, and the economy, the US has fallen out of love with the hard work of ushering new ideas into the world
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The American circus is in decline, but performers thrive on TikTok. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey may be no more, but aerialists and fire-eaters are just a click away.
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Stromae - L’enfer (2022)
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NFTs, why do people hate them?
I was just thinking and wondering why people are so incredibly anti NFT. I recently posted about my art here and someone was compelled to post an angry comment about NFTs. I have come to expect...
I was just thinking and wondering why people are so incredibly anti NFT. I recently posted about my art here and someone was compelled to post an angry comment about NFTs. I have come to expect this and just wonder why?
It is a strange thing to collect digital items, I get that. Personally I find it hard to understand most of what people do including collecting stuff. I'm try to get rid of stuff.
We know some crypto is bad for the environment. This is why I didn't buy bitcoin in the first place, it seemed like a huge waste of energy for nothing. Many companies support this now though. If you invest in Tesla, you invest in bitcoin. You may not even know or care that your 401k hedge fund is investing in crypto.
But some crypto like Tezos (which is what I use) is in line with energy use you would expect from credit cards and the like.
The other thing is that some people are making huge sums of money from crypto and maybe there is jealousy involved. I've felt it too! Then I remind myself what life is all about, that I am happy where I am, and that fame would not help me create better art, in fact it would likely work against it. Money is much so much easier to make then art, it's not even close.
Thoughts?
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Why is NFT art so ugly?
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Dithered Branches – Generative Art Analysis
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Cryptographic Digital Art Tokens, a concept
Hi folks. I'm posting this in ~creative because I want to see what other artists think of it; the technical side is important too, but artists and art are the focus of this project. Cryptographic...
Hi folks. I'm posting this in ~creative because I want to see what other artists think of it; the technical side is important too, but artists and art are the focus of this project.
Cryptographic Digital Art Tokens are a concept I've been working on for a while, to provide some of the benefits of crypto tokens without perpetuating the harm they create.
CDATs are not NFTs. They are not designed to facilitate investment, but rather collection. They do not use a blockchain and do not rely on distributed consensus at all. Instead, they use traditional cryptography to validate the ownership of art.
How CDATs Work
Let's say an artist Adam creates a piece of art called One. He decides he wants to sell a CDAT of One, so he creates a CDAT key and publishes his public key on his website, adam.art.
A collector, Beth, decides she wants to buy One. She e-mails Adam and they agree on a price, and exchange keys; once she has paid, Adam sends Beth a CDAT, which he has signed. Beth then cross-signs the CDAT and sends it back to Adam. It ends up looking like this:
=== CDAT DATA === Artist: Adam <adam@adam.art> Collector: Beth <beth@betawork.codes> Date of Sale: 2021-12-08T19:50:56Z Title: One, a Digital Story Work ID: art.adam.one Cover Hash: e82c294938320bf4fab56970f52e1ddf Work Hash: 3179c999f1d4fab4bcc8a57bca1c9d8c Artist Key Fingerprint: c634d0420f825b91 Collector Key Fingerprint: 3b2e3bbf91ec96c2 === CDAT SIGN === Artist Signature: YTtsc2tkamY7bHNramY7bGtqZDtsa2pmYTtsZGt... Collector Signature: cXdpZXVwcXdpeXR1djtsbmFvdWNuZWN2cHdl... === CDAT META === Cover URL: https://adam.art/images/one-cover.jpg Work URL: https://adam.art/art/one.zip Artist Key URL: https://adam.art/static/cdat.key Collector Key URL: https://betawork.codes/ === CDAT OVER ===
In an ideal world, with all the software enablement I want to do, Beth would be able to take this token and put it in a digital gallery or on her website, where the art piece, and her ownership of it, would be proudly displayed for all to see in a user-friendly, beautiful format.
Structure
The CDAT has three sections - DATA, which is signed, META, which is not, and SIGN, which contains the CDAT's cryptographic signatures. Hashes and key fingerprints are in the DATA section, but URLs are in the META section, which means they can be changed later; artists and collectors can re-host their art and keys, so long as the files' hashes or fingerprints remain exactly the same.
Semantics
Because the CDAT is cross-signed, anyone can see that both Adam and Beth have agreed to the sale. Assuming the signatures and keys all check out, Beth can now prove to people that Adam sold her his art, and Adam can prove that Beth bought it.
Implementation
In order for this interaction to work, we technically need only existing technology: you can validate such things with GPG and some manual reordering. Ideally, though, we'd have a few tools:
- A CDAT validation program. This should include a command line program and a GUI (maybe even a mobile app?), and would validate the following information:
- The given signatures are valid and correct for the given CDAT.
- The keys used to sign the CDAT match both the given fingerprints and identities.
- The linked key URLs, if any, in fact point to the indicated keys.
- The linked art and cover URLs, if any, in fact point to files with the given hashes.
- A CDAT creation program. This should include a command line program and a GUI. It would take as input the relevant keys and names, provide a way to set the date, and ensure that everything relevant is online at the given URLs.
- This program would be used by both artists (to create CDATs) and collectors (to cross-sign CDATs).
- A CDAT hosting service. Obviously there could be more than one of these, and people could host their CDATs and art on their own machines - that's decentralization, baby! - but it would be very nice to be able to host CDATs, art, and keys for free or a nominal fee.
This would be a great start, but in order to really kick-start the ecosystem, it would be nice to provide some additional enablement software, such as:
- A drop-in HTML embed that uses client-side JavaScript to display and validate CDATs on a website.
- A browser extension which validates CDATs found on arbitrary websites, on the user's request.
- A self-hostable CDAT gallery for artists and collectors which displays who owns what, and which art pieces are still for sale.
Please let me know if this idea is interesting to you, and ask any questions/leave comments!
9 votes - A CDAT validation program. This should include a command line program and a GUI (maybe even a mobile app?), and would validate the following information:
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Infrastructures - Generative Art by KilledByAPixel
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Unable to travel back to Iceland to see a volcano erupt, Sigur Rós star Jónsi reenacted it with sound installations, scents and sculptures in a New York City exhibit
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Auto Torus - Generative Artwork
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Aliendscapes - Generative Parallax Landscapes
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This webcomic made it okay to be sad online. Then its artist vanished.
14 votes