*They’re an impressively busy lot over at Furtherfield.  Just look at the length and variety of that newsletter. FurtherList No.25 July 4th 2021     FurtherList No.25 July 4th 2021 02/07/2021   Marc Garrett   A list of recommendations, reflecting the dynamic culture we are part of, straddling the fields of art, technology and social […]

*Yet more of our July 4 celebration of a new American government document about technology art.   https://www.arts.gov/about/news/2021/national-endowment-arts-announces-new-report-artists-use-technology-creative-medium   A Collective Ethos Beyond innovating for personal projects, artists make it possible for others to learn, use, and expand artistic expression with digital technologies across ages and skill levels. The open-source toolkits created by artists, designers, […]

*Even more of our July 4 celebration of a new American government document about technology art.   https://www.arts.gov/about/news/2021/national-endowment-arts-announces-new-report-artists-use-technology-creative-medium   Among tech-centered artists, building creative tools is a significant pursuit alongside art making, and artists develop software and hardware for both themselves and other artists. Some artists consulted in this field scan consider tool-building as central […]

*Continuing our July 4 celebration of a new American government document about technology art.   https://www.arts.gov/about/news/2021/national-endowment-arts-announces-new-report-artists-use-technology-creative-medium   Š  Arts organizations and funders face numerous challenges engaging with tech-centered artistic practices. These challenges include limited staff expertise, limited infrastructure, and difficulties in understanding how to evaluate artistic projects in this field. 
 Tech-centered artists have managed […]

*This new federal report from the USA’s National Endowment of the Arts is so interesting and relevant that, in honor of the USA’s July 4 national holiday, I’m going to post some extensive excerpts. *They’re of direct application to things Share Festival has been doing for many years.   https://www.arts.gov/about/news/2021/national-endowment-arts-announces-new-report-artists-use-technology-creative-medium     This report, Tech […]

*The NFT mavens have done quite a few of these art promotion videos, mostly for works available on the “KnownOrigins” platform.   https://www.mocda.org/about  

*This seems like it might be significant.   https://towardsdatascience.com/cant-access-gpt-3-here-s-gpt-j-its-open-source-cousin-8af86a638b11 (…) EleutherAI project: Open-sourcing AI researchthe project was born in July 2020 as a quest to replicate OpenAI GPT-family models. A group of researchers and engineers decided to give OpenAI a “run for their money” and so the project began. Their ultimate goal is to replicate […]

*This is of interest if you’ve seen metal works of device art and wonder how they were built.  Commonly they were built with repurposed metalworking equipment in the garage of the artist’s uncle. *If you really want to lathe and grind metal, there are two things I feel compelled to say about it.  (A) Buy […]

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