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• Retroyou
• Lawrence Lek: japanese artist

This are the slides we used in class

Conceptual art

Idea >> art piece. The important thing is how it's done.

You may have seen the by Marcel Duchamp (TODO: insert image here)

• Santiago Sierra: tatooed a 2.5 m line over prostitutes backs (they were paid)

No art

Is it possible for me to do nothing as my contribution to this exhibition?

• Marina Abramovic: she sat for days in a museum
• Keith

Digital art

The begginings

• Ben Laposku: Oscillons

• John Whitney Some say the idea of digital art was born with Andy Warhol .

Algorithmic art

In the beggining, machines that drew with pencil and paper. Questions the idea of "creativity". Can a machine truly be creative?

• Karls Sims

• Conway's Game of Life

• David Roberky

• Technosphere (1995): jane Prophet and Gordon shelly

Processual art

The public creates the artwork. Often called "Democratic art" beacuse the puclic.

• The Poietic Generator .. (cadaver exquisito) --> similar to Reddit

Software art

Data becomes art

• (TODO: search that cool one with the storm from Digital Impact)
• Processing
• Hackathons: data art

Interactive art

• Roy Ascott

Browser Art and net art

• Netomat: meta-search enginge

This wasn't covered in class but Neocities is a pretty interesting example

• Toywar: most expensive collective performance. created a game to make the stock of Etoys fall.
• anthology riozime

ASCII Art

• Emojis were
• the birds

AI art

Scholar's opinions

Some think that AI can't innovate at all.

Text

• Verse by Verse: poetry generator. Before the AI boom. Using some artist as reference generate poetry in english
• Cryptoflowers (UPC)

Others think Everything Is a REmix, and that at the end of the day, nothing is creative and humans do the same.

Image

• Dall-e
• Midjourney
• Stable Diffusion

Video

Music

• Daddy's Car: a song composed with Artificial Intelligence in the style of the Beatles by François Pached
• Ai-generated covers of songs (e.g. Michael Jackson as a kid singing the songs he released as an adult)

Festivals

• +RAIN Film Fest
• Befantastic

The digital image

Tècniques que abans no podíem fer ara són possibles.

Fractal art

Recoloring

• Jane Long: takes Flickr photos from random people and uses them as models to create a story

Morphing

• Randy Lewis
• Tony Futura
• Chema Madoz

Landscape art

Digital ilustration

Unlimited colors. We can push to the extremes.

• Anton Semenov
• Entergalactic (good example of how colors have changed), Neflix film

Pixel art

• Sort of digital cubism: express a character with as little pixels as possible. Initially this was because of technical limitations, now it's an artistic choice.
• Some artist try to make it more detailed and atmospheric

Videoart

Gifs

• Julien

Digital sculpture

Digital architecture

• The Wilderness Downtown: create a personalized videoclip of the house you grew up in.

Digital street art

• Muto
• Cheko
• Blu

Visit Digital MUuseum

(get from slides)

BIOART (really interesting, i should look into this)

• Eduardo Kac

YouTube channels

As usual, here are some recomendations:

• carykh
• neural networks by 3b1b
• evolution simulation