The Render Ender

Recently published from British Council: "Why Technology Needs Artists: 40 International Perspectives" @britisharts.bsky.social - Interviews and Essays from Jasia Reichardt, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Morehshin Allahyari, Rebecca Allen, Sougwen Chung, Xu Bing - the hits truly go on and on!

Highly recommend checking out this interview with Jon Ippolito regarding impact of AI on creative practice. Especially if you're teaching in a creative field this fall, its crucial listening!

Pianists don’t “play” the piano, there’s a little guy in there.

Sometimes you talk to a New York Times reporter for forty minutes and don’t end up in the article, but I’m still happy to have offered some background for Cade Metz in this assessment of AGI. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...

The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n

Gonna catch up with VR

Sharing print from project: "Gli infiniti di Bruno" - Fictional evidence of a fictional opera derived from fictional scenarios in life of Giordano Bruno unsuspectingly engaging with artificial intelligence(s), sentient hyperobjects, and plural nonhumans. More info: badatsports.com/2024/sub-rur...

Thrilled to share I’m co-chairing a roundtable at #CAA113 in NYC next week w/Mat Rappaport. Our session, AI in Art: Practices, Processes, Doubts, and Revelations w/Barbara Rauch (OCAD) and Jenn Karson (UVM) is sure to be a great time! If you’re going to CAA, please stop by and join the conversation!

DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread 🧵

specifically: Thinking about "Eclipse" (commissioned by ASPU Terminal 2015) as seed for a long-form generative NFT in fx(hash) What do you think? Have you done anything like this? - or seen any exemplary long form generative NFT? Would love to hear from you! 😀 www.paulcatanese.com/experiments/...

I'd be curious to hear from folks who have worked with fx(hash). I've been thinking about releasing an updated version of an early generative art project I created 10+ years ago, and would love to hear from folks in a similar situation-

thought this was an interesting research paper looking into how transformer models can be used to generate l-systems; especially w/how they are unpacking recursion. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

In Margaret's office, poster from the "Second Nature" show at the Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art in 1999 curated by Paul Hertz including a whole bunch of dear folks (plus me) - was a real treat to see this looking very crisp! Ken Rinaldo & Miroslaw's names are a little hidden - had to share!

Artist talk and student crits at Indiana University, Bloomington today in a Mies van der Rohe building - sharing my recent works with print media and ml/ai - grateful for the turnout and thoughtful questions; lovely meeting Caleb Weintraub and reconnecting with Megan Young & Margaret Dolinsky.

Getting the ball rolling; My research lately is examining machine learning developments intersecting with interdisciplinary forms of art practice. Particularly interested in complexities related to embodiment, materiality, ephemerality. Print media as Opera / Post, Post, Post-Digital Printmaking