AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS at Sónar 2024 | Highlights

https://youtu.be/KVZT4RpWmYs?si=I7xXm4PkyxkFeQoI

Torino (Città) Invisibile

https://torinoinvisibile.coniglioviola.com Torino (Città) Invisibile Kaninchen-Haus e ConiglioViola in collaborazione con il Museo Nazionale del Cinema e la Fondazione Circolo dei Lettori presentano la nuova call per partecipare alla costruzione del progetto “Torino (Città) Invisibile” che trasforma il capolavoro di Italo Calvino in un’opera multimediale da fruire in realtà aumentata attraversando lo spazio pubblico. Torino (città) […]

Legacies of tactical media since the 1990s

Dear Nettime, This Wednesday, the Centre for Digital Inquiry (CDI) will present a livestream, hybrid conversation with Alexandra Barancova, David Garcia and Eric Kluitenberg on the legacies of tactical media since the 1990s, alongside reflections on emergent trajectories today for media aesthetics and activism in pursuit of the common good. Today, we grapple with escalating […]

Intellectual Art History in Cold War Eastern Europe (Wien, 24 Oct 24-31 Jan 25, 2024)

rom: Katalin Cseh-Varga Date: Jul 6, 2024 Subject: CFP: Intellectual Art History in Cold War Eastern Europe (Wien, 24 Oct 24-31 Jan 25) Academy of Fine Arts, Institute for Art and Culture Studies, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, Austria, Oct 24, 2024–Jan 31, 2025 Deadline: Aug 5, 2024 Intellectual Art History in Cold War Eastern Europe […]

The LLMs, 2024

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.16937

Fidget Toys

*They’re the primal ancestors of kinetic art.

Websim AI

In response to prompts, Websim AI instantly creates entire fake simulated websites, complete with “functional” links. Like, for instance, this fake website for a Turin, Italy that’s completely dominated by esoteric magic. Or this Cyberpunk Turin.

Here comes a tidal wave of semi-legal animated AI meme-cartoons

*That’s what this lecture would seem to imply. https://dougshapiro.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-and-hype-and-reality (…) The Legal Issues are a Quagmire I haven’t calculated lawyers per employee in Hollywood, but it’s safe to say legal issues are more important in the entertainment business than in many other industries. Hollywood creates copyrighted information goods, which are subject to piracy and infringement […]