March 9, 2025

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Visual Electric aims to liberate AI art generation from chat interfaces

If you’ve tried out at least a few of the text-to-image AI art generation services that have launched in the past few years, such as Midjourney or OpenAI’s various versions of DALL-E, you have likely noticed some commonalities. Chief among them: all pretty much resemble a chat interface. There’s typically a space for the user

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‘There’s no winning strategy’: the pacy, visually stunning film about the dangers of AI – made by AI | Art and design

A toilet bubbles over with sticky yellow goo. Bedazzled executives are treated to a speech by a cartoon ghost. Someone’s dog walks across a wall before reconfiguring its own body parts. Alan Warburton has created some truly mind-blowing images for his new documentary The Wizard of AI. But what’s most impressive – or maybe most

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2023 Miami’s Art Basel will feature paintings made by rescued chimps – NBC 6 South Florida

Monkey see, monkey paint? Paintings made by rescued chimpanzees are set to be on display at Miami’s famed Art Basel art festival, with some being put up for grabs for as much as $10,000. According to Save the Chimps Sanctuary, a sanctuary for animals rescued from laboratories, the pet trade and the entertainment industry, this

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Ross McLaren, Visual Arts Mentor and Filmmaker, Dies at 69

McLaren in Orvieto, Italy. Photos courtesy of Fordham faculty and administrators Ross McLaren, Fordham’s “charming resident contrarian” and an experimental filmmaker who taught film and media production in the University’s visual arts program for nearly four decades, died in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 28 after suffering a stroke in July. He was 69.  “[Ross’s]

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Red Pants’ Jason Lambeth crafts a beautiful collage – Tone Madison

Red Pants play in a practice space. The songwriter and visual artist guides us through the making of Red Pants’ latest album, “Not Quite There Yet.” Self-reliance has become an essential part of Jason Lambeth’s creative process. Lambeth makes up half of the psych-tinged rock duo Red Pants, along with longtime collaborator (and award-winning author)

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Is Carriageworks cutting its visual arts programming?

ArtsHub has received a copy of a recent e-letter from Carriageworks CEO, Fergus Linehan to Clothing Store resident artists, which states:  ‘Over the past five months, we have been looking at the future of Carriageworks. It’s an exciting time, but we are also facing some real challenges. In particular, we’ve had to take a long

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behind the hardware of digital art

The past decade has seen a rise in hysteria regarding digital art. As the scope of what constitutes new media creation continues to widen, it is tempting to be swept into the anxiety around world domination by advancing technologies such as AI – yet the future of this art genre remains inextricable from streams of

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Melbourne gallery has artists seeing red

A commercial art gallery in Melbourne has artists seeing red over ‘unprofessional’ conduct on the part of the gallery owner. RED Gallery in Fitzroy North opened in 2002 and bills itself as a “contemporary art space”. The gallery changed hands in 2019, when previous owner Kim Wall sold the business to current owner and Creative

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Two Smithsonian museums showcase video installations by John Akomfrah

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save John Akomfrah dreams of finding a passage north, undiscovered and unspoiled. The motif appears over and over in the artist’s sweeping video installations, two of which are on view on the National Mall: His camera lingers on an isolated individual, tracing the person’s gaze over

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UW Art Museum to Host Second Annual ’Tis the Season Event

The University of Wyoming Art Museum will celebrate the winter season by hosting its second annual ’Tis the Season event. The museum will present free seasonal programs Wednesday, Dec. 13; Thursday, Dec. 14; and Saturday, Dec. 16. Finals Week Winter Wind Down will take place Dec. 13 from 6-9 p.m. UW students are invited to

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