We studied the historical data on works of NFT Art across the SuperRare marketplace*. This is what we found. *Data as of end of March 2021 Futuristic, retro and sci-fi themes are frequently explored and highly coveted by collectors “3d” art is the most viewed with higher … | Continue reading
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Artnome has made the world a much smaller place for me. I now have friendships with many talented artists from around the world. One of those artists is my dear friend from Nigeria, Prince Jacon Osinachi . Osinachi is a self-taught artist who developed his own unique style out … | Continue reading
All communities have identities built around core principles. I’ve learned over the last few years that the traditional art world tends to value, promote, and embrace scarcity, and as a result, often finds that there are not enough resources to go around. It is noteworthy to me t … | Continue reading
At its best, art is transcendent and sublime. However, few artists can regularly create works that evoke feelings of awe and wonder on that level in its viewers. Even fewer artists have managed to do this by writing code on a computer, a tool which many consider to be at odds wit … | Continue reading
This essay is for the exhibition The Game of Life - Emergence in Art , online at Kate Vass Gallery and is, in part, a tribute to the work of mathematician John Horton Conway , who passed away on April 11th, 2020, from COVID-19. - Jason Bailey For many people, it is ha … | Continue reading
I've been lucky in that the COVID crisis has so far left my family and me unscathed. It did, however, make me realize I have two major addictions: art museums and Starbucks. Luckily, my neighborhood Starbucks just reopened, and my good friend Brendan Ciecko and his team at … | Continue reading
We are in the middle of a generational culture war, and the entire art market is about to be turned upside down by an emerging class of collectors looking to reshape the art world in their own image. As we enter a new decade, my 2020 art market predictions will make the case tha … | Continue reading
I work for myself and I am cruel boss so I don’t take too much time off. But I make an exception on Thanksgiving so yesterday I let myself get creative and play around a bit with some machine learning models. The end result of playing around is the image above which composites a … | Continue reading
The artist Damjanski , who we recently wrote about for his post-apocalyptic, sans-human iPhone app Bye Bye Camera , is at it again, this time with his MoMAR artist collective at the newly renovated MoMA, with a guerrilla AR art show in the Estée and Joseph Lauder Gallery (for … | Continue reading
I am thrilled and honored to announce that Artnome will be curating an exhibition titled Augmenting Creativity - Decoding AI and Generative Art at Nanjing University this November, 2019. In preparing an exhibition in a country I have never been to and whose language I do not … | Continue reading
Foreword by Jason Bailey I probably have more in common with notorious art forger Robert J.C. Driessen than I do with most blue chip art collectors: We both grew up dreaming of being artists, and we were both deeply disappointed to discover the art world is not designed to supp … | Continue reading
Foreword By Jason Bailey “ While rationalism would say that the machine learns emotions from the training data, romanticism instead poses that they are innate. ” - David Young “ In addition to memories from a long-distant conscious past, completely new thoughts and creative id … | Continue reading
In June of 2006, Christie’s auction house put the 1927 painting La Horde by artist Max Ernst on the cover of the catalog for their evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art. Typically the catalog cover is reserved for the most exciting work in the sale, and Christie’s was ce … | Continue reading
Forward by Jason Bailey I have a handful of people I consider personal heroes in the world of generative art. Casey Reas (along with Ben Fry) is at the top of that list for inventing the Processing programming language. Through Processing, Reas and Fry put the ability to … | Continue reading
This week at the Ars Electronica festival for art and technology in Linz, Austria, Artnome friend and artist Alexander Reben will be debuting a photo booth that mixes faces together in latent space. Reben calls the project Latent Face , and according to him, “It looks … | Continue reading
Forward by Jason Bailey It may be hard to believe, but there was a time in the not too distant past when photography was viewed with as much prejudice and suspicion by the the art world as digital art is today. Many believed that because photography involved chemicals and machin … | Continue reading
“The force of art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.” - Naum Gabo | Continue reading
The team behind Sotheby’s Mei Moses Index recently published a report showing that over the past six years, works by female artists that have returned to auction have seen price gains of 72.9% versus 8.3% for works by men. | Continue reading
Artnome has two missions: Improve the art historical record through better data to help fight against forgery. Highlight work by artists who deserve more attention, including artists working with tech and artists from underrepresented communities. Thanks to my good frie … | Continue reading
Machine learning is at its best when used as a tool for augmenting human capabilities, not for replacing them. And while we may not all be able to build our own machine learning models from scratch, new tools like Runway ML and Joel Simon’s forthcoming Artbreeder are opening … | Continue reading
In a climate where endless hype has people paranoid about AI stealing humans’ jobs, a new app called Bye Bye Camera uses neural networks to eradicate humans from the world altogether. Bye Bye Camera simply removes people from photos and fills in the background. The app is b … | Continue reading
I’m working on a longer article about democratizing AI for artists, but in the process of writing that article, I started using Runway ML and Jason Antic’s deep learning project DeOldify to colorize old black-and-white photos of artists - I couldn’t stop. So I decided to shar … | Continue reading
I recently came back from a conference in Bahrain that focused on, among other things, artificial intelligence and machine learning in art. I am as excited as anybody about the potential to apply these new tools to art and art history, but we do not have all that much data about … | Continue reading
I have long dreamed of attending an art exhibition that presented the full range of generative art starting with early analog works of the late 1950s and ranging all the way up to new AI work we have seen in just the last few years. To my knowledge, no such show has ever existed. … | Continue reading
If you are a regular Artnome reader, you know we are big on blockchain and generative art . So of course I was super excited when my good friends Matt Hall and John Watkinson of CryptoPunks fame gave me a sneak peek of Autoglyphs , their new project which creates ol … | Continue reading
If you are a regular Artnome reader, you know we are big on blockchain and generative art . So of course I was super excited when my good friends Matt Hall and John Watkinson of CryptoPunks fame gave me a sneak peek of Autoglyphs , their new project which creates ol … | Continue reading
It is early in the year, but the most compelling show for art and tech in 2019 may already be happening. AI artist and Artnome favorite Robbie Barrat has teamed up with renowned French painter Ronan Barrot for a fascinating show that lives somewhere in the margin between collab … | Continue reading
I’m a little late on my art market predictions this year, but I had too much fun with my 2018 art market predictions to keep my crystal ball in the closet. This year, I go deep on two trends that I think will dramatically transform the art market, not only in 2019, but for the … | Continue reading
I recently read that the average millennial will take an astronomical 25,000 selfies in their lifetime — almost one per day. This got me thinking about the history of selfies. Before the invention of the camera, artists were the only ones capable of making selfies (I know, what … | Continue reading
I’ve come to learn that if a person can run neural networks and has deep interest in art, they are probably a pretty creative and interesting person. Australian artist Liam Ellul is no exception. Ellul recently shared a new portrait series he working on called Just Tell Me Who … | Continue reading
In May of 2015, Alex Mordvintsev’s algorithm for Google DeepDream was waaay ahead of its time. In fact, it was/is so radical that its “time” may still never come. DeepDream produced a range of hallucinogenic imagery that would make Salvador Dali blush. And for a month or so, it … | Continue reading
“I’m excited about a future where micropayments are omnipresent. Artists paid by the view, writers by the poem, musicians by the listen.” - Cryptograffiti In a recent auction designed to sell to the lowest bidder, artist “ Cryptograffiti ” sold his elegant work Black Swan , a … | Continue reading
When most people think of Van Gogh, the first color that comes to mind is a warm, radiant, golden yellow. Yellow sunflowers, yellow fields of grain, even the yellow moon in Starry Night . But Van Gogh’s paintings did not start out that way. As late as 1885, roughly halfway thr … | Continue reading
Memo Akten, Learning to see: We are made of star dust (#2), 2017 “A deep neural network making predictions on live camera input, trying to make sense of what it sees, in context of what it’s seen before. It can see only what it already knows, just like us. Trained on images from … | Continue reading
Tumblr recently announced that they no longer tolerate adult content on their sites. This is problematic for artists and art historians because social media and blogging platforms have proven to be lousy at discerning nudity in art from nudity in pornography. As a result, platf … | Continue reading
AI art using GANs (generative adversarial networks) is new enough that the art world does not understand it well enough to evaluate it. We saw this unfold last month when the French artists’ collective Obvious stumbled into selling their very first AI artwork for $450K at Chris … | Continue reading
As a self-styled digital art aficionado who works for a machine learning startup, I have been waiting for years for AI (artificial intelligence) to yield something miraculous in the field of art. But instead, all I have seen is generic style transfers that allow you to make a pho … | Continue reading
There has been a lot of talk about AI (artificial intelligence) in the media over the last few months, but there are still a lot of signs that most people don’t really understand it. For example, 90% of people polled in a recent survey believe that “up to half of jobs would b … | Continue reading
This week, Christie’s will be auctioning one of the most important collections of American art, the Barney A. Ebsworth collection. The collection is valued at $300M and is brimming with work by artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Edward Hopper, whom most of us feel like we know … | Continue reading
I wrote my first article on blockchain and art almost a year ago. Bitcoin has plummeted by 64% and Ethereum by 86% over that same period. Once thought to be a promising new way to fund new ideas and startups, ICOs (initial coin offerings) are now viewed with extreme skepticism, … | Continue reading
Christie’s just sold the first piece of AI art to be offered at a major auction house for $432,500. The piece was consigned by Obvious, a group of three friends from France with no formal art training. There have been a lot of questions surrounding the creation of the work sold … | Continue reading
From 1770 to 1854, a device billed as an autonomous chess-playing machine called the “mechanical turk” toured the world, defeating the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. The machine was a hoax. There was a highly skilled human chess master sitting inside making al … | Continue reading
This month, Christie’s will become the first auction house to bring a piece of AI (artificial intelligence) art to auction. The work is titled Portrait of Edmond Belamy and it is by the French artist collective Obvious. This story has captured the public’s imagination and has … | Continue reading
The recent incident around Banksy embedding a shredder into the frame of his Girl With A Balloon has caught the world’s attention. As a nerd obsessed with the intersection of art and tech, I too was sucked in over the weekend in trying to unravel the mysteries behind Banksy’s … | Continue reading
Yesterday was Mark Rothko’s birthday, and I wanted to celebrate by sharing some stats from the Artnome database on one of my favorite artists. Born on September 26th, 1903, Mark Rothko would be 115 years old today. Though he tragically cut his own life short at the age of 63, R … | Continue reading
Over the last 50 years, our world has turned digital at breakneck speed. No art form has captured this transitional time period - our time period - better than generative art. Generative art takes full advantage of everything that computing has to offer, producing elegant and com … | Continue reading
The blockchain revolution is largely about taking money and power away from large, established, centralized institutions and moving towards a more decentralized model. Bitcoin, the best-known use case for blockchain, cuts out banks and credit card agencies by decentralizing … | Continue reading