European Artist Bank

Back to Brandenburg next week! Fostering a new EAB use case with a complete village *a real one 🏞️, not a Comic or VR one 🙃

New @EuroArtistBank merch? 🧞‍♂️💫 Comes with a ltd edition ... ?

Miles Davis meeting Kenny G is one of my favourite photos ever. His look is priceless.

GM — with ‘Through Smoke’

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on. In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out. To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government. It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored. People's work is not the government's to give away. If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!

Eno - A real Walkman in Sound

Happy #DeLaSoulDay! 3/3 🌼🌼🌼 Celebrate with us at the @nprmusic Tiny Desk ☁️🏠⛅️ youtu.be/5AVYDHTOixU?si…

Stumbled on genius: a turntable cat-scratcher 😹🌀 It’s silly, smart and perfectly on-brand for all turntablists no matter if a noob or OG feline *Reminder: artists shouldn’t only drop tunes, they should ship objects that live in their ecosystems forever **Available via SuckUK

'Der Große Weg' Reject the straight line: “The straight path is godless.” Choose the spiral: growth, return, becoming, just like a record’s groove ⏺️ EAB takeaway: We’re building rights & provenance tools that feel organic, the Artist way 🏡 #ArtToProduct #Hundertwasser #EAB

@joinwebzero @Polkadot Love to the flow!

Top five moments of 2025: In 5th place, @Polkadot bus gets thrown out by security in NYC.

EAB's Crate Dive 001 - 'An infinite human arpeggio' That after-work escalator from Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi (1982 film; OST 1983) "a minimalist pulse that rewired city soundtracks and prefigured loop based electronic music" #CrateDive #PhilipGlass #Minimalism

I’m old enough to remember when Adobe claimed to respect creators’ rights in their approach to generative AI training. Hey @adobe, whose work does Runway train these models on?

🟡Wolf Moon to open 2026 Moons are the timekeepers of tides, chores, and cycles set to light. In many northern traditions, January’s full moon marked midwinter audits, stores counted, paths planned, so here’s to a new year of clear signals and brave releases! #WolfMoon #EAB

Pay Artists for the Draft Too 1- Hepworth sculpted dozens before 1 masterpiece. 2-Kafka rewrote endlessly. 3-Agnès Varda spent years on notes and before every film. 4-Arvo Pärt rebuilt his musical language in 8y of silence. Creative labor isn’t free just because it’s invisible.

__Europe Doesn’t Need More Apps__ It needs cultural policy. STIM’s AI music license proved it: protecting rights = protecting futures. Innovation without ethics is extraction.

@DJBobbyStarrr Seasonal Power Greetings! 🙏🏽

Ho 🎅 Ho 🎄 Ho 📻 Back on the FM: Bobby Starrr 'ARTIST DISOBEDIENCE WILL SURVIVE' show nr.3 with Holiday crate-digging + culture first. 🔁 One replay, then poof. 🗓 26 Dec ⏰ 19.00 CET 📻nysi.fm #NYSI #ArtistDisobedience #BobbyStarrr #Radio #Germany

When Artists Thrive, Nations Heal Countries with higher cultural investment show higher social cohesion, mental health markers, and civic participation. Art is a public-health intervention disguised as beauty.

Art ≠ Content Content is designed to disappear. Art is designed to remain. The algorithm rewards speed; culture rewards depth. Confusing the two is a societal error.

Every European Revolution Had Artists at Its Core. From Goya documenting war to Käthe Kollwitz exposing poverty, artists have always told the truth power feared. Remove them, and you remove memory.