by Luba Elliott This is an occasional newsletter with updates on creative applications of artificial intelligence in art, music, design and beyond. Below is issue #9 and you can subscribe for future editions here 😀 Art 🎨 The Lumen Prize announced its winners on Thursday, which saw Refik Anadol win the Gold…

This is an occasional newsletter with updates on creative applications of artificial intelligence in art, music, design and beyond. Below is issue #7 and you can subscribe for future editions here 😀 Art 🎨 2019 is now in full swing and AI art is as trendy as ever, though there are signs…

Issue #7 September 1st — October 15th — This is an occasional newsletter with updates on creative applications of artificial intelligence in art, music, design and beyond. Below is issue #7 and you can subscribe for future editions here 😀 Art 🎨 Since I last wrote this newsletter, the interest in AI art has exploded with a variety of dedicated…

Issue #6 September 28th — December 4th — This is an occasional newsletter with updates on creative applications of artificial intelligence in art, music, design and beyond. Below is issue #6 and you can subscribe for future editions here 😀 Art 🎨 Researchers from Rutgers University and the Atelier for Restoration & Research of Paintings used RNNs to identify what…

Last week, Ars Electronica announced its 2017 theme as Artificial Intelligence — The Other I. The festival follows other established art institutions that have grappled with the topic over the past year including the Tate, BIAN, transmediale and Science Gallery Dublin. While we muse over what Ars Electronica will show…

Earlier this week, I wrote a piece with Peter Zhegin on opportunities for applying AI in the creative industries, published as How to take AI far beyond gaming in VentureBeat. As part of our research, we looked at 94 example company, corporate and academic initiatives using AI for search/discovery, personalisation…

Or, if you put them all together, my experience of the NIPS conference can be summarized as the image below. Read along if you prefer words, details and creative applications of AI. Mentioned in Yann LeCun’s invited talk on Monday, the cake became the meme of NIPS 2016, appearing in…

While London was busy courting the traditional art world at Frieze, Berlin celebrated the artists, hackers, makers and producers of the digital age at Retune Festival. Held on the 6th-8th October in Berlin, the event brought together an international crowd of 60+ artists and creatives working at the intersection of…

This weekend I organised Art Challenge - the ART x TECH hackathon, which saw art professionals, entrepreneurs, designers and developers join forces to build an arttech business from scratch in 24 hours. The event kicked off with an inspirational talk by Theodora Clarke from Russian Art and Culture, who gave…