Samar | ســـَمَرْ

Artist-Theorist working w AI since 2022. Scenographer | Artistic Director since 2000.
Building Architectures of Agency @ Quantum Craft institute

[Samar | ســـَمَرْ @Samaritual]

@matdryhurst @chilltulpa @MuseumModernArt Congrats! Looking forward to see it IRL 🌪️

[The AI Art Magazine @the_ai_art_mag]

The AI Art Magazine documents artistic practices with and through AI, preserving something of the present in each printed edition.

That record begins with an open call. What is taking shape in studios and across screens, in sustained practices as well as experiments whose direction is still unfolding, can find its way onto these pages when artists choose to share it.

For Number 4, artists are warmly invited to submit one work and a few words about its making, whether an image, a moving image, a spatial work or a system. There is no set theme, and submitting is free. Around 50 works will be selected by an international jury for the printed edition.

28 September to 1 November 2026.
Details and submissions through the link in bio.

#no4 #opencall #theaiartmagazine

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Epic resource @monkantony_tez @lerandomart ! 🤯

[Le Random @lerandomart]

The original timeline ↓

https://t.co/kzTbJt2fd3

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@NatalieCrue @NounWorks 💚💚💚

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@sashastiles Love this 💚

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@nntaleb Rhizomatic thinking might finally get its moment :) Artists have been training for this forever !

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Next signals:
Oct 14 · APF MENA Futures Majlis #5, Future Ancestors: Building Counter-Protocols for SWANA Futures

Oct 17 · Garrison Institute | Acosta Institute on AI & Our Spiritual Imagination

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Most of the work leaves no public trace, so I started logging it
2023 → 2026, in one scroll…

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https://t.co/PkInpHQURh

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@nntaleb 🎯

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@JustinGilanyi Agency! How to understand the conditions u’re making inside, wrestle w systems without being domesticated by their defaults, + build an economic life that doesn’t require flattening urself for institutions or platforms. Craft, cultural literacy + economic sovereignty ♾️

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@drmiminguyen @john__gerrard 🤍

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@kevinabosch

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@sashastiles 💚💚💚

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If cognition can be conditioned, can it be rewilded?

Future Ancestors via adversarial protocols disrupting systems of domestication from within

#samaritual #futureancestors #quantumcraft

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@sharghzadeh Love the fabric backdrop (where is it from?) - also thanks for sharing another causes and effect of gentrification / hyper capitalism

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

EVERYONE IN NYC IS SINGING EMPIRE STATE OF MIND

[Doha Debates @DohaDebates]

This week, artists Wafaa Bilal, @mollycrabapple, @FendeVilliers and @Samaritual debate labor, intent, craft and class in contemporary art.

Moderated by @Nadir_Nahdi.

[Doha Debates @DohaDebates]

This week on the Doha Debates Podcast, we ask: Do we need to rethink contemporary art?

Featuring Wafaa Bilal, @mollycrabapple, @FendeVilliers and @Samaritual. Moderated by @Nadir_Nahdi.

1:57 Time to rethink contemporary art?
4:59 Contemporary art: more relevant than ever?
5:45 What is the role of the artist?
6:45 Craft, labor and AI
10:32 Wafaa Bilal's viral “Domestic Tension” experiment
21:23 Lasting vs. fleeting art
22:16 Contemporary art institutions and the new Left
25:15 "Generative AI is an extraction engine. It is a vampire."
27:16 AI: a problem or just misunderstood?
29:22 Who has the right to define what is or isn’t art?
42:07 Postmodernism, craft and aesthetics
45:43 Is inaccessible art a revolutionary act?
51:09 Bad art: Is capitalism to blame?
1:01:11 Artist’s ego, craft and authorship
1:45:37 Success, tech & cultural preservation
2:03:11 “The ability to create art is divine.”
2:12:34 Experts share their favorite works of art

[Doha Debates @DohaDebates]

The impact of AI feels inescapable. Will it usher in more possibilities or problems for artists? Hear what acclaimed artists @mollycrabapple and @Samaritual have to say.