THE NEW AI ART SCENE
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All about emerging artists exploring the creative power of AI
and the most prominent personalities in the field of AI and generative art.
NEWS
SPOTLIGHT: AIArtists.org
In these times of confinement, IA CIAC MTL Magazine invites you to discover AIArtists.org, a website gathering the 25 best artists of the new AI art scene in the world.
Robbie Barrat, Nude Portrait, 2018
You will be able to see among others the works of the young prodigy of AI art Robbie Barrat, as well as those of the artists Memo Atken, Anna Ridler, Jake Elwes and Ahmed Elgammal featured in the present issue of the AI CIAC MTL Magazine.
In addition, you will find several resources, including an AI art history, and a page about ethical AI. The site also offers creative AI tools that will allow you to generate your own AI artwork.
CQAM LUNCH MEETING ON WORKS OF ART AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: SEE ONLINE
The Conseil québécois des arts médiatiques (CQAM) organized on April 7, 2020 a lunch meeting around works of art created with or evoking artificial intelligence technologies.
This lunch meeting brought together the following participants:
- Gina Cortopassi, art historian
- Kite aka Suzanne Kite, artist
- François Quévillon, artist
This event is published on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/408124697
IA ETHICS CONFERENCE
Shannon Vallor, Professor of Philosophy and Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh will present a conference entitled “Technology’s Unpaid Debt: AI and the Promise of a More Humane Future” on April 30, 2020, as part of the Montreal Lectures in Artificial Intelligence Ethics series.
For more information, see: https://sites.google.com/view/dmartin/ai-ethics/speakers#h.p_6OIDkhnJ-5aJ
Please register on Eventbrite with the link provided on the website (the event is free of charge). A link to the Zoom meeting will be sent to registered participants.
BEYOND «GANISM»: AI ART AS CONCEPTUAL ART
by Pau Waelder
A pivotal moment for the current wave of AI art took place on October 25th, 2018 at the auction house Christie’s in New York. Portrait of Edmond de Belamy (2018), a print on canvas depicting a blurry image of a man in a black suit, was sold for $432,500.
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AICAN: CREATED ARTIST
by Vincent Godin-Filion
AICAN stands out for his abstract expressionism with vibrant colors, where intertwine artistic blurs and modulated lines. His works always have that same typical shine, that vivid brightness that gives the color scheme an almost hypnotic floral quality…
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INTERVIEW WITH OLLIVIER DYENS
by Anne-Marie Boisvert
We live, interact, we socialize, we almost exclusively flirt through the technologies, networks and machines that surround us.
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