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Art
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TIAT: The Intersection of Art & Technology (SF)
TIAT (The Intersection of Art & Technology) is a San Francisco gallery and coworking space for creative technologists — exhibitions, monthly salons, and studio access for artists working at the art-technology boundary.
Nightshade: Protecting Copyright Through Adversarial Poisoning
Nightshade is a tool that lets artists poison AI training data by adding imperceptible perturbations to images — images look normal to humans but cause AI models trained on them to produce corrupted outputs. An offensive countermeasure for artists against unauthorized scraping.
NEW MODELS
New Models is a media project by Laboria Cuboniks collective members exploring the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of AI — intersecting tech criticism, art, and speculative theory. Sits at the AI-culture overlap rather than pure technical coverage.
Online Art Communities Begin Banning AI-Generated Images
Andy Baio's September 2022 report documenting the wave of art platform bans on AI-generated images — ArtStation, DeviantArt, Newgrounds, and others responding to artist backlash over Stable Diffusion. The first major cultural reckoning over what generative image models meant for creative communities.
Scrapism: Web Scraping as Art and Activism
Scrapism is Sam Lavigne's guide to web scraping as artistic and activist practice — using Python scraping tools to collect and repurpose web data for critical or creative ends. Treats scraping as a form of political speech as much as technical skill.
Art Diario: Daily Art on Your Desktop
Art Diario delivers a new piece of classical or fine art to your desktop each day — a simple daily art practice embedded in your environment. Part of a pattern of ambient art applications that surface museum collections in daily digital life.
Formfunction: 1/1 NFT Marketplace on Solana
Formfunction is a 1/1 NFT marketplace on Solana focused on individual digital artists — not bulk 10k PFP collections. Emphasized low environmental impact and direct artist-to-collector relationships. An early attempt at building an artist-first NFT market on Solana.
Grok {Shan, Shui}* — Understanding Generative Art Code
Viktor Zverok's deep-dive into understanding the Shan, Shui* generative art codebase — a JavaScript program that generates ink-wash style Chinese landscape paintings. An 'advent of understanding' tracing how algorithmic art is constructed from procedural noise and layered rendering.
Ian Cheng Interview: A Portal to Infinity
Ian Cheng in conversation about his lifeform simulations and art practice — infinite open-ended worlds that evolve without predetermined outcomes. Cheng is one of the few artists working seriously with simulation and emergence as a medium.
Michael Bliss
Michael Bliss's personal portfolio site — a designer or creative professional whose work was worth bookmarking. Minimal context from the save; likely saved as a visual reference or creative inspiration.
mlart.co — Machine Learning Art Gallery
mlart.co is a curated gallery of machine learning art projects — generative works created using neural networks, GANs, style transfer, and other ML techniques. A showcase of creative applications of AI at the intersection of art and research.
Max Hawkins
Max Hawkins is an artist and software engineer whose practice centers on surrendering control to algorithms — randomized living arrangements, random diets, random social events. His work treats computation as a tool for disrupting human habit and discovering the unexpected.
What Do Data Visualizations Look Like As Food?
A dinner party where data visualizations were served as edible food — a conceptual art project probing what happens when you make abstract data tangible and consumable in the most literal sense. An interesting edge case in the 'embodied cognition' design space.
Gorgeous, Colorful Look at the Cellphone Signals We Never See
The Verge feature on Nickolay Lamm's colorful visualizations of invisible cell phone signal fields — rendering the electromagnetic environment around cell towers as psychedelic color fields. Makes invisible infrastructure visible.
gifpop: Animated GIFs as Physical Lenticular Prints
gifpop launched publicly in December 2013 — a service that converts animated GIFs into physical lenticular prints you can hold. Lenticular printing creates the illusion of motion from a static card by showing different frames at different viewing angles.
WIRED: Visualizing Gravity (Rocks in Paint)
WIRED tweet sharing Fabian Oefner's rocks-in-paint photography — saved alongside the article itself. See also the direct article note.
Rocks Dropped Into Paint Look Like Trippy, Amazing Flowers
WIRED Design piece on high-speed photography of rocks dropped into paint — the impact creates flower-shaped splash forms captured at microsecond timescales. A visual demonstration of gravity and fluid dynamics in action.
Twitter Turns Geotagged Tweets Into Art
The Verge on Twitter's visualization of geotagged tweet density as art — heat maps of global and city-scale tweet volume rendered as luminous data paintings. An early high-profile example of data visualization as an aesthetic object, not just an analytical tool.
SFPC — School for Poetic Computation
SFPC (School for Poetic Computation) is a small artist-run school in New York focused on the intersection of code, language, hardware, and theory — an alternative to traditional CS education that asks what code means culturally and aesthetically. Founded 2013 by Zach Lieberman and others.
Data as Paint, and the Rise of the Data Artist
SYS-CON piece arguing data is the new paint — that a new class of 'data artists' is emerging who use datasets as creative raw material rather than purely analytical input. An early articulation of data as a creative medium.
Sandra Dieckmann: Illustration
Sandra Dieckmann's illustration portfolio — a German-born, London-based illustrator known for intricate, folklore-inflected animal drawings with soft color palettes. Her work has a distinctive quality: detailed but never fussy, dark subject matter treated gently.
Alice Rebecca Potter: Society6
Alice Rebecca Potter's Society6 shop — detailed botanical and natural history-style illustration sold as prints and merchandise. Society6 was one of the first platforms that let illustrators build audiences and sell prints without gallery representation.
Nick Cave: Soundsuit Sculptures
Nick Cave's Soundsuit sculptures — elaborate wearable costumes that produce sound when worn, combining visual spectacle, performance, and social commentary. The content was saved with a Burning Man comparison, though Cave's work is more serious than that framing suggests.