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ArtwrldBen Davis on What’s At Stake in Art Criticism TodayIf you’re an art critic, it helps to feel that something is at stake in what you’re writing about. It sharpens the pencil, so to speak.When reading the criticism of Ben Davis, the feeling of stakes is ever-present—the sense that art and its aims, concerns, and debates are not frivolous but core, nested within the broader sweep of human affairs like a thinking heart.This is why for a long time I’ve considered Ben to be the best, most consistently interesting art critic anywhere. I’ve also been lucky enough to have wo...
2025-03-311h 21
ArtwrldFilmmaker Bennett Miller on the Imperative of Artistic Innovation in the Age of AIAround 2015, after finishing the acclaimed movie Foxcatcher, the filmmaker Bennett Miller began working on a documentary about AI. Though it was years before Chat GPT brought the technology to mainstream attention, he managed to capture a bracing, far-sighted vision of how AI could change society and culture through interviews with tech founders, venture capitalists, scientists, artists, and everyone in between, from Sam Altman to Tom Stoppard. After filming was done, Bennett received early access to DALL-E, OpenAI’s image generator. Fast-forward to today. The documentary, a six-part series called A Better World, has become frozen in a...
2025-03-2153 min
ArtwrldChristie’s Nicole Sales Giles on Making History With the First AI Art AuctionIf you're in the art and tech space—or the art world writ large—you've probably been at least a little transfixed by the drama, controversy, and, ultimately, financial success attached to the Christie's Augmented Art auction that ended last week.Some decried the sale, the first ever dedicated to art made with artificial intelligence, as glorifying what they see as mass exploitation of creative work by the big AI companies. In fact, after it was announced, approximately 6,500 people signed an open letter to Christie’s with a simple cri de coeur: “We ask that, if you have any...
2025-03-131h 10
ArtwrldArtist Stephanie Dinkins on How to Play the Long Ball With AIFew things feel worse than being misunderstood. That’s especially the case when you’re persistently misunderstood—when, try as you might to convince someone of something you know to be true, it falls on deaf ears because their mind is already made up to the contrary.Now, imagine if the future of your reality was being constructed atop this misunderstanding, and if it wasn’t just you who was misunderstood but a vast population of other people like you.Years ago, the artist and professor Stephanie Dinkins realized this nightmare scenario was in fact playing...
2025-03-071h 15
ArtwrldMetalabel's Yancey Strickler on Building a Post-Crypto Haven for ArtistsA few years ago, the Kickstarter-cofounder and creative entrepreneur Yancey Strickler went down the crypto rabbit hole. In his brilliant 2019 essay “The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet,” he had articulated his realization that the social web had become a hunting ground for extractive tech companies that preyed on your time, attention, privacy, agency, and money. If artists wanted to escape their clutches and build sustainable careers on their own terms, they needed to hide out in private forums—and the NFT space, with its tight-knit community and promise of decentralization, seemed to offer a safe haven in the...
2025-02-281h 05
ArtwrldTom Emrich on How to Prepare for an Augmented Art WorldBack in 2014, after Google Glass was released, the tech journalist and entrepreneur Tom Emrich wore that notoriously before-its-time AR device for nearly a year, trying to find ways to integrate it into his life. One day, a man who saw him sporting the wearable at a Tim Hortons in Toronto called him "the man from the future." Now, after a decade-long run in the mixed-reality field that involved selling a startup to Niantic and then leading AR product management there, Tom remains a man from the future—only that future, in which spatial computing transforms the way we...
2025-02-221h 13
ArtwrldNEW INC'S Salome Asega on Incubating Tomorrow's Art x Tech SuperstarsWith AI, blockchain, and augmented reality gradually but inexorably changing the nature of creative work, there has probably never been a time when planning one’s artistic career path has been more fraught with uncertainty. In a tough art market, old strategies are starting to look shopworn. Novel approaches are emerging, from reimagining the studio as a startup, as Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst have done with Spawning, to taking on venture capital as an alternative to working with galleries, as some top crypto artists are trying out.Confronted with this garden of forking paths, wha...
2025-02-1455 min
ArtwrldSpawning's Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst on How to Build Humane AI for ArtistsIt’s a twist of history that the AI revolution first reached mainstream attention via visual art, with DALL-E, and yet artists have been among the technology’s biggest critics. Ownership of intellectual property, fair compensation for work being used in training datasets, fear of having art’s essential quality polluted, and an unwillingness to be glorified product testers for what are seen as extractive Big Tech companies are just some of the concerns the art world has voiced. So, the question is, can AI be both humane and a transformatively powerful tool for artistic creation...
2025-02-101h 13
Artwrlda16z crypto's Chris Lyons on What Comes After NFTsChristopher Lyons is a visionary leader, entrepreneur, and President of Web3 Media at a16z crypto. Lyons joined a16z in 2013, first as chief of staff to co-founder Ben Horowitz. In 2021, he helped launch a16z’s first $400M Seed Fund. Prior to that, he founded the firm’s Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF). Launched in 2018, CLF became a beacon of change, connecting the world’s greatest cultural leaders (athletes, entertainers, musicians, and executives) with cutting-edge technology companies. More importantly, it became a platform to uplift Black builders and creators, fostering their journey toward excellence in the tech industry. Under Lyons’...
2025-01-311h 14
ArtwrldBeeple on How His Art Reflects a Changing AmericaAs a disruptive new administration arrives in Washington with pledges to hit the fast-forward button on Mars, AI, and crypto while simultaneously rolling back the clock on progressivism, it can be hard to orient oneself in the present historical moment. The scope of the changes underway in our society seem both overwhelming and nebulous; the precise contours of these changes are slippery to grasp as well.Fortunately, there’s a shortcut to catching up on the nature of American life in 2025: you can just look at Beeple. And I mean really, truly look at Beeple, both the ar...
2025-01-241h 17
ArtwrldFuturist Monika Bielskyte on a Protopian Vision for ArtMonika Bielskyte is a visionary futurist and speculative designer whose work transcends traditional boundaries of art, technology, and social theory. As the founder of Protopia Futures, she challenges conventional dystopian and utopian narratives, offering a framework for imagining inclusive, dynamic futures that embrace plurality and regenerative action.Born in the Soviet Union and raised in Lithuania, Bielskyte's nomadic explorations across over 100 countries have informed her unique perspective on global interconnectedness. Her multidisciplinary background, spanning from creative direction to cutting-edge technological innovation, allows her to bridge the gap between imagination and real-world application.Bielskyte's Protopian vision, root...
2025-01-171h 15
ArtwrldHans Ulrich Obrist on How Video Games Can Level-Up the Art WorldWhat if the next time you went to a museum you didn’t just look at the art on the wall—what if you activated a controller and played it? To a certain degree, this is already happening. Video game-based art has been displayed in major shows, from the Venice to the Whitney biennial; MoMA has historical video games from Pong to Minecraft in its permanent collection; and the pioneering video game artist Auriea Harvey recently had a survey at the Museum of the Moving Image that had almost as many controllers as wall labels.But H...
2025-01-141h 04
ArtwrldKenny Schachter on Why the Art World Is Broken, and How Technology Can Fix ItHow does one describe the Zelig-like art world force of nature that is Kenny Schachter?He’s a teacher, lecturer, and writer whose Artnet column—a monthly compendium of art market gossip, intrigue, and provocation that might be the most truthful thing in the whole art world—I had the unique pleasure of editing for years.He’s a collector who buys far too much work by emerging artists and holds an annual “Hoarder” auction at Sotheby’s to sell off his excess treasures. And, most essentially, he’s an artist. In particular, he’s a digital ar...
2024-11-251h 33
ArtwrldHow Artist-Investor Sarah Meyohas is Shaping Her Vision for the AI-Driven FutureOne of the reasons the intersection of art and technology is such an exciting space to be is its sheer vivifying complexity, with each side of the dyad containing long histories of innovation that can take a lifetime to appreciate on their own, but when married together flower into something close to magic. If you really want to get complicated, however, there's a third force involved that you can’t ignore if you hope to get the full picture, and that’s capitalism.The artist, technologist, and venture capitalist Sarah Meyohas has been doing remarkable things at the...
2024-11-151h 04
ArtwrldHow Crypto Artist Sam Spratt Is Building a New Kind of Gamified Art WorldOne of the challenges of spotting an original artist is that we tend to judge new art based on the criteria of the past—causing a major blind spot when it comes to disruptive innovation that’s playing different games with different rules.Today, when so many artists are incorporating emergent technology into their work, this might be more challenging than ever. And it’s probably the reason the broader art world has been slow to appreciate the brilliance of Sam Spratt, who has somehow managed to fuse Old Master painting, crypto, video games, and a dash of Zuc...
2024-11-101h 10
ArtwrldGoogle DeepMind's Matthieu Lorrain on the 'Liquid' Future of ArtMatthieu Lorrain is a creative and technology pioneer in the fields of digital experiences & content innovation.He is currently Creative Lead, AI & Creativity Research at Google DeepMind. He is also the co-founder of fAke Artists, a creative collective exploring the future of post-reality experiences.Matthieu Lorrain has a long history working with recognized artists and global organizations to reimagine interactive storytelling. He has been exploring creative applications of emerging technologies for the last 20 years: ranging from interactive video to connected objects, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. His most recent work focuses on how generative AI can...
2024-11-0853 min
ArtwrldHow Refik Anadol Is Writing the Next Chapter of Art HistorySince AI broke into public consciousness with ChatGPT's launch in November 2022—just two years ago—the race for artificial general intelligence, or AGI, has dominated headlines as a climactic drama with humanity's fate in the balance. Will creating a digital god redeem us, or will it destroy us? Is it even possible? Now, go down a few rungs on the ladder of existentiality, and a parallel race is underway in the art world that’s freighted with its own sublime promise and high-stakes quandaries. I’m talking about the effort to create great AI art—or GAIA, if an acronym...
2024-10-3054 min
ArtwrldHow Venture Capitalist Ryan Zurrer Is Fueling a Digital Art RevolutionRyan Zurrer is the founder of Dialectic, a Swiss-based fund focused on alternative assets.Ryan was a very early investor in some of the best-performing venture investments of the last decade. Ryan launched Polychain Capital’s private investment arm and has built a reputation for being a value-add venture investor with a uniquely global purview and deep understanding of decentralized networks.He founded 1OF1, an important digital art collection which includes Beeple’s HUMAN ONE and Refik Anadol’s Machine Hallucinations – MoMA.
2024-10-2345 min
ArtwrldCathy Hackl on How AI and Mixed Reality Will Spark the Next RenaissanceThese days, as artificial intelligence begins to spread through society, it’s impossible not to sense that something fundamental about our reality is changing—something as encompassing, in its way, as the shift from summer to autumn. If you ask the futurist, author, and tech executive Cathy Hackl what's happening, she’ll tell you we are entering what she calls a “season of possibility.”That’s the delicate way to put it. In her exhilarating new book Spatial Computing, co-authored with Irene Cronin, Hackl is more blunt: the combination of AI and spatial computing, she writes, will bring about “u...
2024-10-1549 min
ArtwrldArtist Anicka Yi on Creating Her Immortal AI TwinThe artist Anicka Yi is a human being, but she's not stuck up about it. In fact, she's perhaps most at home collaborating with non-human entities, pushing the boundaries of what art can be and who—or what—can create it.First, she began working with microbes, famously deploying bacteria to help her make colorfully blooming "paintings" in giant petri dishes. For her 2017 Hugo Boss Prize show at the Guggenheim, she enlisted colonies of ants to activate her works. More recently, the artist has found a collaborator in AI. In 2021, for her Turbine Hall commission at Ta...
2024-10-0942 min
ArtwrldHow Tech Could Transform the Art Industry with Marc Glimcher CEO of Pace GalleryOne of the thorniest conundrums of the art world—and arguably the greatest business opportunity—lies in the mismatch between the art audience and the art business. While the marketplace for art, particularly avant-garde contemporary art, used to be a boutique endeavor that was well matched to its niche collector base, the past few decades have seen new art become relevant and exciting to a far vaster public. But no one has really figured out how to evolve the industry beyond its lucrative traditional formula—passionate demand from a small elite + scarcity of the most desirable work = nosebleed...
2024-09-3051 min
ArtwrldMatr Labs's Ben Tritt on Why Today's Artists Need RobotsWill the artists of the future be cyborgs? Actually, some artists already are—only instead of having AI implants in their brains and robotic arms by their sides, they run AI copilots on their laptops and give orders to state-of-the-art painting machines in a laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York.That lab—based in a sleepy village that was once a clandestine meeting place for Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr, and other scientists during World War II—is the sci-fi brainchild of Ben Tritt, a classically trained painter who for years taught students how to painstakingly copy the Old...
2024-09-2358 min
ArtwrldAuriea Harvey on What Ancient Magic Has to Do With Digital ArtThe pioneering digital artist Auriea Harvey doesn’t really want to talk about the future these days—she’s much more interesting in talking about the past. It makes a lot of sense.Why? It’s a cliché to say that great art is often ahead of its time, but, when it comes to the history of digital art in particular, it's is almost always true. The thing is, eventually that time comes, and work that previously had seemed marginal or bizarre or maybe not even art suddenly comes into focus as essential, fitting the present moment like a key in...
2024-09-1558 min
Making Business Art#025 Reimagining Experiences in Physical Spaces with Josh GoldblumNew technologies enable fresh opportunities to connect with visitors in physical spaces. But connecting with people in a way that feels authentic, trustworthy, engaging, and enduring takes a whole lot of passion, collaboration, and a deep love of story and craft. My guest and Emmy-award winning creative executive and entrepreneur, Josh Goldblum, has spent over 20 years honing his craft at the intersection of art, technology, and culture to create amazing technology-enabled experiences for cultural organizations and brands. If you have visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the A...
2024-09-101h 34
ArtwrldJennifer & Kevin McCoy on the True Value of Digital ArtWhat if the art market—what if the whole underlying foundation of the art ecosystem—was a buggy string of legacy code? And, what if you could fix it?That was the deeper proposition that the artist Kevin McCoy offered up a decade ago when he and the technologist Anil Dash invented the NFT, debuting their breakthrough onstage at Rhizome’s 2014 Seven x Seven conference. By using the blockchain to imbue a digital artwork with unique value and verifiable provenance, they essentially applied a hotfix to a flaw in the art market that until then had made it pract...
2024-09-091h 09
Killa Kela PodcastKKPC #551 -ABOTZ CAMDEN OPEN AIR GALLERY EXCLUSIVETodays podcast we have an exclusive chat with a gent who’s work ethic has driven him to curate 2 exhibitions at once - @redeightgallery & @camdenoag ABOTZ @abotz_artwrld is his name, and his creative journey has not only earned him the flexibility of elevating in the streets, but also in the Galleries and art houses! 🔥
In this exclusive podcast we’re talking about his creative drive, processes, thoughts on the art industry, the graff scene and more. 🔥👊🏻🔥 this is Abotz podcast, ENJOY!
2024-07-0431 min
Killa Kela Podcast#330 with guest Abotz (UK graffiti writer/Artist)Todays Podcast we are taking a trip to Untouchable territory with one of the young and inspiring characters in the Graffiti art scene, ABOTZ / ABOTZ ARTWRLD! On the eve of his new exhibition at Camden Open Air Gallery, we're taking a look at his life and career so far, his upbringing in graffiti, TU,
his play on character concept, colours and placement. Plus we look at the hardcore graffiti and its future in galleries. His exhibition is up now at The Camden Open Air Gallery, now hear his story, this is Abotz Podcast!
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2022-03-1039 min