In the realm of AI-generated content, Giacomo Miceli’s “Infinite Conversation” stands as a perplexing creation. Promising a never-ending dialogue between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek,… Read More »Unveiling Emptiness: A Critical Review of “Infinite Conversation”
Art and technology have always had a symbiotic relationship. From the first cave paintings to modern digital art, technology has enabled artists to create and showcase their work in new and innovative ways. Today, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is poised to revolutionize the art world in ways that are beyond any predictive trajectories or technological trends.Read More »The Future of Art in the Age of AI
With ChatGPT 4 all over the news, I thought it should be fun to talk to ChatGPT and to find out if the bot could be prompted to write content for DIGITALSOULS.COM. While chatting with ChatGPT, we also asked the image generator offered by Canva to generate a few pictures that depict the ancient Greek philosopher Plato conversing with ChatGPT in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Here’s a gallery with the images and the transcript of our first conversation:Read More »ChatGPT – Not a Digital Soul
After its launch on DIGITALSOULS.COM in 1998, interest in generation/mutation grew week by week. A steady stream of new contributions arrived almost daily. These early, human made contributions are presented here in generation/mutation 1.2Read More »generation/mutation 1.2
The original version of generation/mutation was launched on DIGITALSOULS.COM in March of 1998 with a simple call to artists. Read More »generation/mutation 1.1
Marcel Duchamp (1913)
You have to approach the thing with an indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. – Marcel Duchamp
Behind last year’s buzz following the release of the text generator GPT-3 , there was another machine learning headline that gave cause for pause: AI controlled fighter jets had defeated a human piloted fighter jet 5-0 in a Darpa simulation. Looks like today’s fighter pilots may be going the way of the shining medieval knight in armor–obsolete and unsustainable because of catastrophic vulnerabilities on the battle field.Read More »Here come the machines – AI takes control of fighter jets
The kiss is a symbol of love and intimacy. Many artists have produced iconic works about it. From Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece “The Kiss” (1907) to Warhol’s experimental 50 minutes silent film “Kiss” (1963), artists have taken up the gesture of the kiss as subject matter. A black & white photograph taken in the 1950’s by an unknown photographer in Nelson, BC, provided the inspiration for the Kissing Project (2017).Read More »The Kissing Project
In a recent post, I drew a distinction between two groups of artists that use Google Street View as part of their creative work:Read More »Playing with Google: Street View Performance and Installation Artists
The launch of Google Street View services in 2007 was followed almost immediately by the emergence of its very own art genre: Street View Art. In 2011, just a few years after the launch of GSV, Pete Brook of Wired hailed the emergence of the new genre with exuberant excitement, announcing that
The Street View car is like the ultimate street photographer, a robo Cartier-Bresson methodically scouring the streets and documenting what it sees — Pete Brook, Wired
While Brook’s article offers a great selection of early Street View art, the comparison between a digital mapping machine and a hybrid mashup of RoboCop, a Hollywood created SciFi robotic police officer, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, the flesh and blood pioneer of street photography in the twentieth century, may seem hyperbolic and somewhat besides the point when it comes to the impact of Google’s Street View images on the arts and popular culture.Read More »Accidental Street Photography: Google Street View Scavengers
