The ai-art gold rush began in earnest last October, when the New York auction house Christie’s sold Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, an algorithm-generated print in the style of 19th-century European portraiture, for $432,500.
Bystanders in and out of the art world were shocked. The print had never been shown in galleries or exhibitions before coming to market at auction, a channel usually reserved for established work.
— The Atlantic
With the attention that AI has garnered in the last few years, it was only a matter of time before the capital behind art would seep its way onto the field. With contemporary art forever changed after the 1973 Scull auction, we may now find ourselves at the next nexus of the art world and its mean and matter of creative exploration, tendencies and their provenance. In his recently released article on The Atlantic, Ian Bogost walks us through how the contemporary trends of Artificial Intelligence has impacted and could potentially impact the art world as a whole.
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Undoubtedly "purchased" anonymously by the very gallery that put it up for auction.
Some people wonder if it is even possible to create an artificial intelligence, and if it is whether we will be able to recognize it.
I don't know if it is possible to create an AI, but I know how we will be able to recongnize it if we do: it will be just as stupid as people are.
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