https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/41048-side-fx-k-allado-mcdowell/ A new era of art is dawning, characterized by intelligent machines capable of extending human creativity in ways difficult even to imagine. In the past two years alone, we have witnessed the emergence of a revolutionary new class of generative AI systems, named DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. These tools combine online image archives […]

*That brief, hyperactive video took a month and a half to edit, but Felix and the comrades there are hell on wheels when it comes to renovating a basement.

*Way to go, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. S+T+ARTS Prize ’23 – Winner announcement In the end, Ars Electronica received 1,637 entries from 78 countries for this year’s S+T+ARTS Prize competition between January 11 and March 13, 2023. Two artists from Great Britain and Ireland can look forward to the main prizes of 20,000 euros each. The […]

*That’s a particularly nutty project. Really entertaining so far, though.

*That’s really a weird interview. https://www.wired.com/story/microsofts-satya-nadella-is-betting-everything-on-ai/ (…) With AI, are we at one of those inflection points where the deck gets shuffled and formerly entrenched winners become vulnerable? Absolutely. In some sense, each change gets us closer to the vision first presented in Vannevar Bush’s article [“As We May Think,” a 1945 article in The […]

FOUNDING LAB starts with Open Calls (Linz, 13.6.2023) With the FOUNDING LAB, the Institute of Digital Sciences Austria (IDSA) and Ars Electronica are launching a prototype lab that will focus on new forms of artistic and scientific treatment of the digital transformation. Two open calls for students and experts from the fields of science, art, […]

*The world’s first fab lab that was ever repressed by some new self-appointed authorities.

*Of course it has to be an electric cargo tricycle. *Guest star: Simone Giertz.

*The Oscars of the tech-art world. Prix Ars Electronica 2023 – these artists will be awarded (Linz, 12.6.2023) 3,176 projects from 98 countries were submitted to the Prix Ars Electronica 2023 in four categories. This year’s Golden Nicas go to artists from South Korea, Hong Kong and Austria, as well as to an international collective. […]