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How AI Is Expanding Art History

April 11, 2024

Painting entitled " Medicine" (recolored with Artificial Intelligence) by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). Credit: Ian Dagnall Computing/Alamy

“From identifying disputed artworks to reconstructing lost masterpieces, artificial intelligence is enriching how we interpret our cultural heritage. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and computer vision are revolutionizing research — from medicine and biology to Earth and space sciences. Now, it’s art history’s turn. For decades, conventionally trained art scholars have been slow to take up computational analysis, dismissing it […]

Refik Anadol’s Use Of AI Has Made Him The Artist Of The Moment

March 21, 2024

courtesy refik anadol studios

“He is in high demand. Last year Refik Anadol projected luminous images of coral on to a wall at the World Economic Forum in Davos and covered the exterior screen of the Sphere, a new concert venue in Las Vegas, with animated, tumbling blue blocks. In October the Museum of Modern Art (moma) in New York acquired “Unsupervised—Machine Hallucinations”, in […]

AI FOMO? Why Cool Heads Are Needed In The Arts

February 27, 2024

Katrina Sluis presenting in ‘Looking at the Machine’ at ACMI Future of Arts, Culture and Technology Symposium 2024. Photo: ArtsHub

“Two speakers at the ACMI FACT Symposium took a critical stance amid pressures for those in the arts and cultural sectors to jump on the AI bandwagon. ‘The information age has ended, and we have entered the age of noise,’ declared Eryk Salvaggio at ACMI’s Future of Arts, Culture and Technology Symposium (FACT) 2024 on Wednesday (14 February). In the […]

Museums Are Learning To Love NFTs

January 2, 2024

image: the museum of modern art/ robert gerhardt

“August institutions are adding tokenised artworks to their collections. Why? Yet the real cultural legacy of the nft boom is that it brought digital art into the public eye. It “opened up the gallery doors for digital artists”, says Zachary Small, the author of “Token Supremacy”, a forthcoming book. Serious work from the “nft internet culture” will succeed in the […]