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[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

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[DANAE.IO @Danae__io]

A few hours to go ⏳
Tonight we open the doors of Inner Voice, a group show curated by @MarleneCorbun with @justinaversano , @MLOdotArt @alidasun and @yaoeo
We can’t wait to welcome you 🖤
And for those who won’t make it tonight stay tuned. We’re preparing a lot for you.

📍 DANAE, 17 Rue du Bouloi 75001, Paris

🗓 May 28 → July 31, 2026

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

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[anika meier @postanika]

Continue reading in @sleekmag ↓

https://t.co/h47KZmswEj

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

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[Tezos Commons @TezosCommons]

Art on Tezos is about more than creating. It’s also about preserving what gets created.

This week on Baking Sheet, we spotlight community-built tools protecting artwork, metadata, and cultural history, while Ushuaia moves one step closer to activation.

https://t.co/i1EnGkGrlr

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

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[anika meier @postanika]

»We can use Gemini to write an abstract and just publish it without even reading it. But I’m old school. I put words in sentences in a particular order on purpose.«

– Vuk Ćosić

Continue reading @sleekmag ↓
👀 https://t.co/Wfz8EuINfW

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

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[Gene Kogan @genekogan]

Today is the 10 year anniversary of Alt-AI!

Alt-AI was a 3-day conference in NYC hosted by @sfpc and curated by me, exploring the then very niche field of creative AI.

Lots of amazing artists and people participated, including talks by @mtyka @hdeweyh @RebeccaFiebrink @quasimondo @aparrish @golan @arnicas @bwhitman.

There was also an exhibition with early AI art by @kcimc @memoakten @dribnet @hardmaru @schwittlick_ @xululululuuum and many others.

I had never thought about organizing or curating before, but when @zachlieberman asked me to put it together, I thought I might never get another chance to put a roster like this into one room together, so I went for it. I'm still grateful and nostalgic for these days when this technology was so new weird and unexplored.

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

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[Le Random @lerandomart]

"The Cerebral Samba: Protocol Art, Worldbuilding & Our Two Brains" by Peter Bauman @monkantony_tez

How protocol art and worldbuilding visualize our two realities

🫱 https://t.co/XnKA7VsKr8🫲

Mentions: @trevorpaglen @yaoeo @Jakob_steensen @dr_mcgilchrist @katecrawford @rhizome @hollyherndon @matdryhurst @cavvia @Bitcoin @la_Biennale @HUObrist

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

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[ryangtanaka | teia.cafe @ryangtanaka]

The project intake form for Tezcon has been updated to include digital submissions as well (for those who can't make it this year):

https://t.co/F6A1XJnJq8

#Tezos artists will get priority but send this to literally anyone because we will be stretching the definition of "art" very wide this year. (Personally I'm hoping many "culinary artisans" will show up and we'll have a grand ol' feast. 😋)

"Open-mic" for both performances and installation/booths alike.

@FendelMarc @normalistoxic @TunaKuna4

@paraxenod @AutonomousTunes @B_DWIL @StrokeDriven @MiRetratito @flexasaurusrex @_NicoleRuggiero

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

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[anika meier @postanika]

Claudia Hart is this year’s recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art. 🏆

Earlier today on the phone, she laughed and said: »We’ve been joking for years that once I turn 70 things will start to happen for me as an artist.« And it happened. First the museum retrospective, then the publication of her book »Patterns and Politics« together with Francisco Carolinum Linz, an exhibition at the Boijmans in Rotterdam, and now the SIGGRAPH Award. Past recipients include Lynn Hershman Leeson, Frieder Nake, and Tamiko Thiel.

From the first time I met Claudia, she shared with me what it meant to be a female digital artist over the past decades. She laughs a lot when she tells her story: from not being allowed to watch TV for more than 30 minutes a day as a child, to losing her job as an editor at Artforum because she was too busy becoming a painter, to falling in love with decorative arts at 25, and from then on appropriating classical genres of art history.

Like Hershman Leeson and the pioneers of early computer art, such as Herbert W. Franke, she experimented with new technologies to test their artistic potential. But unlike Franke and his contemporaries, she did not come from science but from art. Her motivation was therefore not scientific curiosity, but questions of identity and power. Who is visible, and why? Who is excluded, and why?

Today, I asked Fräulein to publish one of our conversations online in full, originally intended for publication with them at a later point, so that you can read Claudia reflecting on what it means to struggle to become an artist and to receive recognition late in life.

»When I look back at my life, I realize I was very open and willing to try new things, and willing also to be fluid, to go with the flow. Then as I grew older, I began to notice patterns. The secret, I think, is both to move with the flow and to stop at times to analyze and redirect.« – Claudia Hart

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

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[Right Click Save @RtClick_Save]

"There’s twice as many digital cameras as there are human eyeballs. We are completely cyborgified, to the point where we don’t even make a distinction between ourselves, the digital devices that we use, and the digital information that we're taking in."

- @trevorpaglen

https://t.co/J2pW2o3hNr

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[Pkok @pkok_art]

Meet Matt Perkins @nudoru - an artist belonging to a generation of digital wizards who witnessed the evolution of computational creativity long before generative art entered the mainstream.

Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Perkins has been creating digital work since the 1990s, bringing decades of multimedia experience into a practice that now merges traditional artistic sensibilities with algorithmic systems.

Delve into this thread to find out more about Matt's amazing art.
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[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

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[beeple @beeple]

making a living as an artist is always going to be hard as hell.

to wake up each day and make whatever YOU want and then have other people pay you money for that. that's an absolute dream and it will always be insanely competitive.

but that doesn't mean you can't be an artist. just get a job doing whatever bullshit, and then MAKE ART.

this is what i did for the first TWENTY YEARS of my practice. i honestly never thought i would be able to make money directly from the art i was making... i just had to make it because i loved making it.

would love to see more focus on creating for the pure love of making art... it's paradoxically the best way to accidently turn it in a paying career. ;)

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

@NFTPROTECTOR That's not true. I used to buy a lot of interesting things on Objkt, finding them in different collections. But with the new design, that's become difficult.

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

@NFTPROTECTOR @objktcom @hunginomio 4. To access your collection profile, you need to go from your collection page to the individual lot, and then to the collection itself. Offers for the collection aren't immediately visible.

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

@NFTPROTECTOR @objktcom @hunginomio For example, the "Auctions" section is in terrible shape. You're losing a lot of money because there are no effective secondary market sales mechanisms. Several collections have sold over the past year, with poor results because there's no proper auction system.

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

@NFTPROTECTOR @objktcom @hunginomio Everything was in place in the previous version. Your team has been constantly improving the previous version since the last update and has achieved great results. Why change anything if everything was working perfectly? You have many issues that need to be addressed.

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

@NFTPROTECTOR @objktcom @hunginomio 1. On my mobile, the website header takes up half the screen with completely unnecessary information.
2. Does anyone use these pull-down menus? Do you personally use them? They can be displayed on the screen as an option.

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

@NFTPROTECTOR @objktcom @hunginomio Regarding Objkt, I wrote that a focus group of collectors is needed to test the usability of new versions and features.

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

@objktcom When FxHash released its utterly ridiculous new version, I wrote about it in a discussion thread on X. In response, I was told that I didn't understand anything and that, in reality, everything was just fine. Never trust glowing comments. So where does that leave FxHash now?

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

@objktcom How can I get back to the old version? I constantly interact with my own and other people's collections in the mobile version. This is impossible in the new version. Another source of frustration! In the previous version, everything was compact and logical.

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

@NFTPROTECTOR @objktcom @hunginomio Analyze the experience of FD and NG. If you focus solely on a website's aesthetics and initial sales, you will quickly follow in their footsteps. Functionality and secondary-market sales are what determine success.

[Okkervil 🐦‍🔥 @Mememycom]

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[objkt @objktcom]

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