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Q Word #QuantumArt exhibition at Computer Arts Society, BCS London. Talks & discussion on how artists apply quantum ideas to art. Catalogue & book by David Upton. Prof James Davenport BCS, David Upton CAS, Astrid Park, Sarah Selby, Ola Bamgboye. Link in comment

when you do work for the public, that’s not art, it’s commerce… I’m not particularly a fan of mr rubin, but something he says in this clip made me think of how we operate in the NFT space and the challenges, conceptually and artistically, they represent. This is me speaking out loud as an artist and art lover worried about what we all are building here. Transactions. Sales. Floors. Volume. For the past 5 years, our little section of the art world has experimented with the idea that monetary transactions create cultural value. Works of art have become validated because of their transaction history, more than from what they provide in terms of ideas, conceptual propositions and aesthetic experimentation. Some might argue that market entanglement is the proposition. Maybe there is historical relevance in threatening the idea of art by making art be just about the transaction. The network of transactions. The shared and very public display of shared ownership. It is an uncomfortable proposition when one thinks how art movements became relevant in the past by questioning the material of art more than its distribution layer. But maybe that’s what makes this a movement? I don’t know the answer, but listening today to Rick talking about how he does art for himself and how the audience should come last, it made me question what is it that happens to art when it’s produced for the audience. NFTs, we’ve seen and can corroborate, have become successful because they sell out, because there is volume, because the network constantly buys and sells them. So all work selling as NFTs tend to be made for the public, to be first a transaction in order to be successful. So in Rubin’s theory, what are we doing with NFTs? They exist because of their transaction history transaction. Rarely does an art project get championed by being art before it’s an NFT, hence, it can’t be relevant for what it is, the art, the idea, the concept, the aesthetics of it. We’ve championed NFT success because it’s native to the onchain environment we’ve built, and built on transactions for the public first. What does that mean for these works of art then when confronted with the outside world of art where there is a different set of values in terms of what is considered art? Could we maybe argue that this value misalignment is what has created the biggest pushback from the art world at large, and not the revolutionary aesthetic and conceptual propositions onchain art preaches on? Again, maybe this is the movement, and maybe we need to push more on this? At the end of writing this I am more confused than before writing it, because sincerely, I see much of what we’ve done in the NFT space as one of the most exciting places for emerging artists to experiment and distribute work in, but it’s also challenging to deal with the mechanics of the space, especially when thinking of how to progress what it means to do art in the 21st century 🫣

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FREE quantum art online & live Talk & Exhib. - Computer Arts Society Q-WORD EXHIBITION Tues March 17, all you need to know but were afraid to ask. Step into the quantum realm and redefine what your art can be. Artists show work, explain new and strange world. Link in Comment

@Noahbolanowski Dali did a lot of things

@microartsgroup I had no idea Dali had made do many works based on his patterns !

Scientific American in 1965: "The pattern of colored dots… was generated by a computer at the Bell Telephone Laboratories as part of a study in visual discrimination… the eye readily forms clusters of hues that are adjacent..." Below: Untitled by Bela Julesz, 1969

@stinalinneag dm me please

Who wants to publish my very speculative, in-the-works essay on the internet as a public space and the art on it as public art (or art in the public)?

@BorisEldagsen Excellent. What is the narrative, or is it various challenges?

I’m proud of this one. Happy to finally release my new video work. It’s part of my AI ART RANTS series — following Bukowski, Punk, Van Gogh and Beuys. But this one cuts deeper. TIPTOEING AROUND THE VOID or: 42 Francis Bacons vs. 8 AIs AI-generated video, text, sound min, 2026 Sound on / click to enlarge to 9:16⚡️⚡️⚡️. 🔊 A confrontation between Francis Bacon and AI. Mortality vs. simulation. Forty-two Bacons face eight AIs in a hall of mirrors where critique turns into complicity — because everything you see and hear was co-produced with the machine. Even the rant. Even the void. This is my most visual AI work so far. Step in. Watch. Listen. #francisbacon #aivideo #videoart #aivideoart #Psychology Made with the following tools: ⚡️@openai > Monologue with ChatGPT ⚡️@higgsfield_ai & @dreamina_ai > Images created with Nano Banana Pro & Seedream 4.5 ⚡️@runwayapp / @hailuoai_official > Images animated with VEO 3.1, Runway 4 and Hailuoai 2.3 ⚡️@dreamina_ai > Images animated with Seedance 1.5, additional animations by Kling ⚡️Elevenlabs (Voice) ⚡️Suno (Music) ⚡️Freesound.org (Sounds) ⚡️Premiere Pro (Edit) ⚡️Upscaling with @topazlabs

@Interface_art @ragnar_art I worked on a Univac 1100 in the early 1980s before I started @microartsgroup - a lot of mainframes around by then. Great map!

Very beautiful interactive map of the computers used by pioneering digital art artists around the world to create computer-generated art in the mid to late 1960s. Very cool @ragnar_art ! tools.ragnardigital.art/mainframe_map/

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@styblova Everyone gets paid except the artists. This is also true for literature, music etc... 🤔

I’d have more sympathy for NFT platforms shutting down if they hadn’t so openly embraced the capitalist extraction engine; the blinding antithesis of decentralization. These were businesses, and they made bad decisions. Own it. You don’t get to take artists’ and collectors' money and then ask us to feel sorry for how hard you worked. You were salaried. You were paid to believe in the thing you were building. If you overworked yourself to meet the demands of the machine, that was a choice made within a system that still compensated you. We don't get paid. We show up every day without salaries, without guarantees, carrying the cultural and creative risk that gives these platforms value in the first place. So yes, we’re allowed to have opinions. And "but we worked so hard" is not accountability.

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@t_blom My first programming job 1980 I wrote the code using a pencil, then data entry people typed it into Univac mainframe, then got printout back with errors on. This cycled a few times until all OK. Then could use keyboard & monitor (1 shared 3 ppl). Would not recommend in 2026 haha

I asked Cambridge computer scientists how the university deals with (mis)use of AI in exams and coursework. They said it’s not an issue because they still handwrite all their code on paper.

@Georg_Eckmayr @univienna @quasimondo Has the system evolved? It's all in the mind of the spectator

Media art history from three years ago :). In todays lecture @univienna i will talk about how machines do understand and perceive the world along this early example by @quasimondo

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Jasia Reichardt CAS Lecture 2026: WILLIAM LATHAM: Evolutionary Art, AI & Immersive Worlds. MC Bronač Ferran. 18:00 GMT, 21 Jan, Live at BCS London & Zoom. 1980s RCA FormSynth, IBM Mutator, VR, Google DeepMind AI evolution. LINK in comments