VirtualCreativeLab

“We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures”

Anasynthetic Impressions|Objective Correlatives

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

Thank you @ColonnaContempo and @thehugxyz for including `Unfiltered` in your curation

For those interested in learning more about its backstory, please visit:

https://t.co/YM4mRZbThA

[Colonna Contemporary @ColonnaContempo]

Humanity Redefined: AI and the Essence of Being

Now Live on @foundation

https://t.co/Me0tujvCrD

[Verse @verse_works]

'Internal Lullabies for the Disenfranchised' ~ demented clowns and exhausted dolls will soon be arriving via Artist Rooms

⚡️🪆Introducing: Jess Mac 🪆⚡️

From AI works to social media interventions, Jess MacCormack’s art navigates queerness, stigma, and digital dissociation. Each piece is a bold critique of systemic bias and normative representation.

Their upcoming Artist Rooms work explores the contemporary political climate through internal collective landscapes where hope still exists despite the horrors persist.

Throughout the series, vintage clowns transform into antique dolls and dragged out femmes with dripping mascara.

Soundscapes shift from disturbing voiceovers to gentle songs, with narratives that take us on a journey through political transformation.

These works epitomise the slime-soaked surrealism and subversive narratives MacCormack has become known for.

→ 🗓️ January 22nd onwards

[Mimi Nguyen واحد 🥯 @drmiminguyen]

Next week in Paris, I'll present works by Sarah Meyohas, Zach Lieberman, Rik Oostenbroek, Lars Wander, Nicolas Sassoon, and collaborations by Andreas Gysin & Sidi Vanetti, and Vera Molnár & aurèce vettier.

Heterotopia showcases a curated selection of photography, virtual photography, and code-based artworks, highlighting various approaches artists use to engage with light through distinct media (mirror, algorithm or in-software techniques) to capture and manipulate light in physical and virtual environments.

Foucault defined heterotopias as "counter-sites" or "spaces of otherness" disrupting and challenging the norms of everyday life, whilst offering alternative experiences and perspectives. Here, heterotopias are virtual environments where light takes on multiple layers of meaning - they are the digital spaces, created and manipulated through algorithms and software, outside the constraints of physical reality and becoming sites of imagination, reflection, speculation.

Paris Photo 7-10 November, 2024
VIP Preview 6 November

Within the programme of the fair, at the booth there will be a book signing on Saturday Nov. 9 at 3pm of the book:
Verloop – Dégradé
Co-published by Nguyen Wahed & RRose Editions, 2024
ISBN: 978-2-9586199-7-8

[NB @Noahbolanowski]

Good Morning Digital Art Lovers 🖤

"I’m exploring a mode of working with human-machine interconnections beyond mere extension to more of a feedback loop, a call and response that is made visible. I want to think about ways we embody systems and vice versa."

- Sougwen Chung, for Le Random in Oct. 2023

[Toni Marinara @Toni_Marinara]

For some reason Latent Ink #261 by @Eko3316 reminded me so much of Bosch (which I love).

I couldn't get it out of my mind.

Had to have it!

[NB @Noahbolanowski]

Good Morning AI Art History Lovers 🖤

1960: Are Creative Artists Becoming Obsolete?

"There are some indications in this technological age that they may be…the possibility of reducing or even of dispensing with the human element in artistic production now presents itself as real."

From The Tuscaloosa News, Mar 13, 1960.

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

Thanks NB for always sharing such gems!

A particularly intriguing concept is We Are AI (WAI), developed by Lex Coors, who serves as the Chief Data Center Technology and Engineering Officer and is also a Visiting Professor at the University of East London.

His ideas were influenced by neuroscientist Jeff Lichtman and roboticist and AI researcher Hod Lipson, who identified six distinct waves in the evolution of AI.

Currently, we find ourselves in the fourth wave, characterized by generative AI models that, to some extent, can articulate their decision-making processes.

The fifth wave introduces embodied AI, which incorporates contextual normative AI - this involves creating AI systems that can adjust to dynamic environments and make decisions guided by ethical standards and societal values.

As to the future, Coors advocates for a strategic advancement into the seventh wave of AI development, to avoid the potential dangers associated with the sixth wave, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Instead of treating AGI as an independent, autonomous entity, WAI envisions a harmonious integration of human and artificial intelligence, enhancing the capabilities of both through collaborative synergy.

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

@ColonnaContempo “Sunday Lunch”

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

I concur, at least for the time being.

Recently, I listened to a renowned roboticist discussing his conversation with a Catholic Monsignor who is closely associated with Pope Francis.

The Catholic Church is advocating for embodied AI, as opposed to "pure" cognitive AI.

This stance bears some resemblance to the views of Hubert Dreyfus, a phenomenology scholar whose critique focused on the shortcomings of symbolic AI, which heavily depended on rule-based systems and logical reasoning.

In the field of robotics, leading startups such as Figure, Agility Robotics, and Apptronik are already, to a certain degree, exploring this premise.

This premise suggests that consciousness does not solely depend on brain hardware but is the result of a millennia-long evolution that has intricately linked cognition, perception, and action.

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

@katiemorrisart Very meaningful work! Huge congrats on your well-deserved achievement!

[Katie Morris @katiemorrisart]

Pleased to announce that Museum Hanmi has acquired three works from my latest collection Shifting Ground.

Formerly known as The Museum of Photography, located in central Seoul, the museum has become a significant cultural landmark. Founded in 2003, the institution is South Korea’s first art museum dedicated to the photographic medium.

The acquisition of these pieces is a deeply meaningful moment, as my 60 inch archival pigment prints will now be preserved, studied, and presented as part of the museum’s permanent collection.

I look forward to the continued journey of Shifting Ground as it enters these important new chapters in the art world.

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

@Noahbolanowski Wow! Love the passage “(Heidesberger) was concerned with uncovering the aesthetic in forms that can be found and uncovered everywhere…”

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

@web_horizons @thehugxyz 🙏🤍

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

Thanks for the article. Great read!

Recently... I've been thinking a lot about Leonardo.

According to Vasari, Leonardo was not inclined towards mathematics but excelled in drawing. This led his father to enroll him in Verrocchio's workshop at 17 or 18.

But I think there is something more interesting.

Leonardo referred to himself as “homo sanza lettere” because he did not master Latin or Greek, the official languages of scientific and technical treaties at the time, which limited his access to this knowledge.

However, Leonardo endowed with immense curiosity and distanced from established scientific rules, developed a personal and innovative method for addressing his legitimate questions.

His self-directed study led him to a divergent thinking style.

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

“Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change”.

In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.

About two hundred years before Raymond Auger, in 1770s, Pierre Jaquet-Droz, with help from his son Henri-Louis, and Jean-Frédéric Leschot developed “the Writer”, a drawing boy automata.

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

@Rrose_Selavy_11 “(It) slices with such a sharp, gentle blade you don’t even realize you’ve been cracked open until it’s already happened”

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

@KubtiTheCreator “Mais l’important n’est pas la chute, c’est l’atterrissage.”

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

@artcolllector “Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”

https://t.co/DRKRkxciJ2

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

@OlivierBodini It is a very fascinating topic that partly resonate with quantum consciousness theory by Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose that also inspired, in his early years, the artist M. C. Escher to create Ascending and Descending

[VirtualCreativeLab @Vcreativelab]

@OlivierBodini I also like this quote from The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose

“Creativity is not something that can be easily programmed, it arises from the rich tapestry of human experience and intuition.”