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*There can’t be many engineers with so large an effect on the art world. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/technology/gordon-moore-dead.html Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder and former chairman of Intel Corporation, the California semiconductor chip maker that helped give Silicon Valley its name, achieving the kind of industrial dominance once held by the giant American railroad or steel companies of […]

Los Ordenadores (1973) Translation: The Computers. Berenguer, X., Corominas, A., Garriga, J. | Barcelona: Salvat Editores, S.A.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun n my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface—the forerunner of every modern operating system, including Windows. I sat with the person who had shown me the demo, a brilliant programmer named Charles Simonyi, […]

*Could it get any messier? https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/rethinking-art-ownership/ Art enriches society through the weaving of relations between the cultures that create it, and the cultures that receive it. Conventional ownership and private property rules undermine such interactions in the context of art understood as a public good, constraining liquidity and alienating artists from the very communities that […]

Lamina1, co-founded by Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson, announced its first partners in an early access program to develop an open metaverse ecosystem. Lamina1 is a Layer 1 blockchain optimized for the open metaverse. More: Partners include HTC, Dubit, 0.xyz, and Neon Media. They will receive early access to features and support in onboarding to […]

Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous by James Bridle https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/the-stupidity-of-ai-artificial-intelligence-dall-e-chatgpt he weirdness of AI image generation exists in the output as well as the input. One user tried typing in nonsense phrases and was […]

*Those are some pretty good reasons. https://www.wired.it/zerocalcare-mostra-milano-biglietti-foto/ (…) E la mostra (ideata da Silvia Barbagallo, prodotta da Arthemisia e organizzata da Minimondi Eventi e Arthemisia in collaborazione con Piuma, promossa dal Comune di Milano e curata da Giulia Ferracci) lo mette in chiaro, esponendo una valanga di materiale che spazia nella sua produzione. Circa 500 […]

*Quite the constellation of art stars.