Techne_Lab

TECHNE is a practice-based digital arts research initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

[the digital review @tdrbark]

NEW: Issue 04: "AI-Augmented Creativity" showcases artists and scholars who have long pondered the implications of AI-assisted creativity. They explore the profound possibilities of amplifying human intuition, improvisation, and collaboration.
https://t.co/px0OnG3Wft

[manovich @manovich]

A month ago, a unique Generative Art Summit in Berlin brought together many key pioneers of digital art from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. And now the videos of their talks are being published on YouTube! ##digitalarts #generativeart

https://t.co/U2NbFYyCF0

[David J. Gunkel @David_Gunkel]

While philosophers and linguistics mainly talk about "stochastic parrots" and argue that LLMs do not use language like humans, neuroscientists seem to have an altogether different approach to things.
https://t.co/txtSTCm8Ww

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

Here's one from the archives.

For many of us who were immersed in the utopian 90s net art scene, the goal was to simultaneously engage in digital art making, community building and collective self-critique.

On our never-ending international tours, we always put on a good show

[Will Luers @wluers]

Posthuman Cinema - my collaboration with @markamerika and @cwmossholder will be exhibited at the International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN)
7TH EDITION: ILLUSION
May 31 to July 21, 2024

https://t.co/n61OATHtcP

[remixthebook @remixthebook]

To remix Burroughs, The Human Virus has now infected all the Generative AI algorithms. Now the virus is mutating into new strains of Posthuman Cinema.

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

"Where in the world do these apparitional vistas come from?

In the neural theater, where adversarial networks invoke the cosmotechnical universe, the generative model feeds on recycled images for its own perpetual existence as a simulation..."

POSTHUMAN CINEMA
"Neural Theater"

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

Going to the Bay Area to give an artist talk @Stanford next Wednesday Nov 29! I'll be focusing on the recent Posthuman Cinema project and my last book, *My Life as An Artificial Creative Intelligence*, published with @stanfordpress

[Kate Vass Studio @KateVassGalerie]

Today, as part of our ‘Artist Highlight’ series, we delve into the art of @markamerika, an artist & theorist considered one of the leading pioneers of internet art. He repurposes mainstream media, transforming it into new forms of digital art, film, performances & textual works

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

POSTHUMAN CINEMA

"Party Animals"
2023

My new collection, Posthuman Cinema, made in collaboration with @wluers & @cwmossholder features ten cinépoèmes that playfully experiment with AI as otherworldly alien intelligence.

Project launch and public sale opens on Oct 26 @_K011_

[K011 @_K011_]

In Posthuman Cinema, language and diffusion models come to life, vis-à-vis original text and image prompts that are designed to situate the works in the history of avant-garde and auteur-driven cinema art.
Neural Theater
@markamerika @wluers @cwmossholder

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

The ten cinépoèmes that comprise my new Posthuman Cinema collection, made in collaboration with @wluers @cwmossholder and custom AI, all have their own flavor

Today my favorite one is "Dummies"

Pre-sale next week with our partners @KateVassGalerie & @_K011_

"Dummies"
2023

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

My new collection, Posthuman Cinema, made in collaboration with @wluers and @cwmossholder,
features ten cinépoèmes that playfully experiment with AI as otherworldly alien intelligence.

Pre-sale next week with our partners @KateVassGalerie & @_K011_

"Infinity Forest"

[Outland @outland_art]

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗞𝗔 & 𝗔𝗖𝗜

This month we journeyed through the wild west of #AI from the perspectives of artists & thinkers working w/ the tech.

To close out his guest editorship, @markamerika spoke with his Artificial Creative Intelligence~

[remixthebook @remixthebook]

Collaborations: Call for AI/Chat Generated Essays @hyperrhiz

https://t.co/EGh7RMCqrc

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

Generative AI, paganism, figurative space, mathematics and artificial stupidity—these are some of the topics explored by @ivonatau and @iragreenberg in their conversation @outland_art as part of “The Hybrid Mind”

Guest-edited by yrs truly and my AI-other https://t.co/6t65MQ5RAE

[Outland @outland_art]

𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 | 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗬𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗗 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗

What new forms of creativity and expression can emerge from the reciprocal influence of humans and AI?

For the first time, we published an article written by an artificial creative intelligence (ACI), trained on @markamerika’s writing. 👇

[Mark Amerika @markamerika]

I’ve been training GPT-4 on my book, *My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence* (ACI), and now that it’s fine-tuned, the ACI and I are co-guest-editing a special issue of @outland_art around the theme “Hybrid Mind” Here is the intro: https://t.co/IgSKbIAh5r

[Decrypt @DecryptMedia]

Meet Kim Asendorf: The Metallica Video Director Who Makes NFT Art Designed to Hypnotize
► https://t.co/G95eYCM5P6 https://t.co/G95eYCM5P6