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www.bold.ie
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Golan Levin
11 months ago
The excellent Stochastic Labs is offering summer residencies in the Bay Area for artists investigating AI creative tools, new futures of sound and graphics, and tangible and material interfaces. Apply now!
stochasticlabs.org/alternative-...
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Alternative Frontiers
Alternative Frontiers
https://stochasticlabs.org/alternative-frontiers/
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Emily āØ
about 1 year ago
Thinking about CGI and all that stuff, hereās a clip of Anchors Aweigh! from 1945 that is another highpoint in visual effects.
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Tessa Consoli
over 1 year ago
Why the radical right loves
#generativeAI
and how Midjourney & Co. are shaping the aesthetics of contemporary
#digitalfascism
. "Technology is not a politically neutral tool. As a nostalgia machine and stereotype amplifier, it lends itself to the creation of right-wing world views."
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RƩgine Debatty
over 1 year ago
Onassis AiR Invites Applications for Residencies and Fellowships in Athens. Participants for 2025ā26 receive a monthly artistās fee of ā¬1,300, a research budget, housing, round-trip travel, and other resources to support their work
hyperallergic.com/986076/onass...
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Onassis AiR Invites Applications for Residencies and Fellowships in Athens
Participants for 2025ā26 receive a monthly artistās fee of ā¬1,300, a research budget, housing, round-trip travel, and other resources to support their work.
https://hyperallergic.com/986076/onassis-air-invites-applications-for-residencies-and-fellowships-in-athens-2025-26/
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Mark Riedl
over 1 year ago
NASA (1965) "Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labour"
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Little exploration of noise and audio reactive feedback loops with
@touchdesigner.bsky.social
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over 1 year ago
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Really interesting listen the M.O. podcast with
@barrythrew.com
from
@grayarea.org
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
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The M.O. Podcast Episode 29: Barry Threw, Executive and Artistic Director of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
Podcast Episode Ā· The M.O. Podcast Ā· 21/01/2025 Ā· 1h 9m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-m-o-podcast/id1752287790?i=1000684826109
over 1 year ago
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School for Poetic Computation
over 1 year ago
Sharing our Spring classes at SFPC here! This season weāre expanding the command line not as the opaque workhorse of computing, but as a stage for poetic subversion, where code emerges as art to explore how technologies of control can become instruments of liberation ā Apply by Feb 2 at
sfpc.study
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Carole Cadwalladr
over 1 year ago
Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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āMainlined into UKās veinsā: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/mainlined-into-uks-veins-labour-announces-huge-public-rollout-of-ai
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I spoke a little on a panel about AI futures, and touched on some of my work at Beta Festival this November.
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over 1 year ago
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I spoke a little on a panel about AI futures, and touched on some of my work at Beta Festival this November.
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over 1 year ago
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Culture File
over 1 year ago
The Culture File Debate x Beta Festival Recorded live at Beta Festival ā24 in Dublinās Liberties, The Culture File Debate brings together Noam Young-Rak Son, Joanna Walsh and Leon Butler to help chart recent shifts at the intersection of art, design and AI.
www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...
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The gap between productivity and a typical workerās compensation has increased dramatically since 1979.
www.epi.org/productivity...
over 1 year ago
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The Ars Electronica Prix is open for entries until march.
ars.electronica.art/prix/en/open...
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Open Call
Photo showing Natalia Rivera, Jung Hsu and Adetola Eyimofe Jerry-Adesewo, Credit: tom mesic 2025 Open Call The Prix Ars Electronica is the worldās most time-honored media arts competition. Winners are...
https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/opencall/
over 1 year ago
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CreativeApplications.Net
over 1 year ago
Roadmap@CANāāV6 ~ % Join us!ā Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge! 𦾠ā
www.creativeapplications.net/support-2025/
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Support CAN in 2025
Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge āā with your support!
https://www.creativeapplications.net/support-2025/
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This looks really impressive from
@nvidiastudio.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9L2...
at $249 dollars.
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Introducing NVIDIA Jetson Orin⢠Nano Super: The Worldās Most Affordable Generative AI Computer
YouTube video by NVIDIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9L2WGf1KrM
over 1 year ago
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HRL 2 is an intensive 9 week virtual studio and development program running from 13th March to 8th May 2025.
sixminutespastnine.com/hybrid-reali...
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Hybrid Realities Lab 2 Overview - Six Minutes Past Nine
Hybrid Realities :Lab - Structure (2025) **All synchronous sessions will take place at 12PM EST/5PM GMT/6PM CET unless otherwise noted** PART 1: ORIENTING YOUR
https://sixminutespastnine.com/hybrid-realities-lab-2-overview/
over 1 year ago
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Another media arts residency call by New Hand Lab in Portugal:
tr.ee/a54cXXY_Dc
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newhandlab | Facebook | Linktree
Linktree. Make your link do more.
https://tr.ee/a54cXXY_Dc
over 1 year ago
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RƩgine Debatty
over 1 year ago
A+E Lab invites applications for early-to-mid career digital artists/collectives with creative souls and innovative minds who embrace digital tools and are always pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo.
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OPEN CALL ā ART X TECH Artist in Residency
aelab.uk/event/open-c...
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OPEN CALL - ART X TECH Artist in Residency ā A+E Lab
https://aelab.uk/event/open-call-artist-in-residency/
over 1 year ago
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I made a
@figma.com
portfolio template based on one my students supplied and asked to to emulate for them to build on. Free to download in the Figam community:
www.figma.com/community/fi...
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Bold Portfolio | Figma
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1445851500518205112/bold-portfolio
over 1 year ago
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J Dakota Powell
over 1 year ago
Another cool Blender tool: "Real-Time
#3D
#Character
Creation With Blender's Clay Pencil... fantastic setup by Daniel MartĆnez Lara, demonstrating the capabilities of Blender 4.3's updated Grease Pencil with Geometry Nodes support, turning 2D into claymation-style 3D"
#b3d
80.lv/articles/rea...
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See Blender 4.3's Custom Clay Pencil In Action
Daniel MartĆnez Lara plans to release the tool by the end of next week.
https://80.lv/articles/real-time-3d-character-creation-with-blender-s-clay-pencil/
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Alan Zucconi
over 1 year ago
If you're looking to learn Game AI, I published a course which covers both theory and practice. š¤š® From Behaviour Trees to Neural Networks, including two coding assignments and eight C#/Unity libraries free for your projects! š¦ Oh, and it's 50% off for Black Friday! š¤ššļø
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I've posted a free capabilities deck template to the Figma community based on the lovely Hello Muller deck.
www.figma.com/community/fi...
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Capabilities Deck 2025 | Figma
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1444273628842184488
over 1 year ago
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Great roles as an Associate or Full Professor of Art & Data in UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10038
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Associate or Full Professor of Art & Data in UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10038
over 1 year ago
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Open call for new media art work at the Mapping festival.
www.mappingfestival.com/en/call-for-...
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Mapping Festival
https://www.mappingfestival.com/en/call-for-projects
over 1 year ago
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Open Humanities Press
over 1 year ago
Hey, We're Open Humanities Press (OHP), an international, open-access, scholar-led, not-for-profit community publisher.
www.openhumanitiespress.org
Follow us for all things
#openaccess
#OAbooks
#humanities
#digitalhumanities
#digital
#technology
#theory
#philosophy
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Open Humanities Press
A scholar led open access publishing collective
https://www.openhumanitiespress.org
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Marcin Ignac
over 1 year ago
Nodes
nodes.io
is visual programming tool for JS/WebGL that we use internally at
variable.io
there is public beta but it's way behind current version we have in development.
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Nodes ā a new way to create with code | https://nodes.io
Nodes is a new way to create with code.
http://nodes.io
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Added a line texture to the blob tracking. Super light weight setup.
#touchdesigner
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over 1 year ago
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Got some time today to build a super simple tracking setup in Touchdesigner
#touchdesigner
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over 1 year ago
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patricio gonzalez vivo
over 1 year ago
Very close to release
LYGIA.xyz
v1.3. Probably the biggest release yet. A redesigned PBR model, raymarching pipeline, and a set of debugging functions to make your life easier + better support for WGSL and Metal.
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Marco Cortella
over 1 year ago
šØ Dream job alert! The Giorgia Lupi's
#dataviz
š team in Pentagram is looking for a mid-level/senior Graphic Designer with
#UX
#UI
skills.
drive.google.com/file/d/16Vgz...
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This looks great. 3 years of midi recording straight from your piano.
jamcorder.com
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Jamcorder | Automatic Piano Recorder
https://jamcorder.com
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Another FANART test to fine-tune the ClayPencil tool, to convert Grease Pencil animations into 3D characters in real time. Using a reference, from the one & only @OlovBurman for Nounfest āGolden Gooseā Check it out!
#Blender
#B3D
#GreasePencil
#stopmotion
#2D
#2danimation
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