https://fablabbcn.org/blog/emergent-ideas/remix-el-barrio-win-top-eu-prize-for-innovative-collaboration Food-waste Biomaterial Makers supported by Fab Lab Barcelona awarded with the annual STARTS Prize JUN 21, 2021 The Remix el Barrio pilot has taken out a top award at the annual STARTS Prize. The European Commission awards the prize to projects that combine artistic expression, technology and scientific research. Remix el Barrio is a […]

“The  Future Art Ecosystems: Art x Metaverse (FAE2).” “The purpose of Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) is to provide analytical and conceptual tools and strategic guidance for the construction of 21st-century cultural infrastructure: the systems that would support art and advanced technologies as a whole, and be responsive to a broader societal agenda.” https://futureartecosystems.org/ Dear Friends, Today we […]

*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 […]