work supporting artists? This one’s for you. Last week I wrote about my advice to help artists navigate their way through the art world as individuals embedded within their communities. Today, I’m going to focus on the other part of the equation: institutions that support the arts. …

If you’ve been to one of my talks in the last few years, you may have heard me answer a question with this advice: If you want fame, find community If you want ideas, collaborate If you want money, find a way to help. I came up with this after…

If you think NFTs are scammy/bad, wait until you learn about the art market — With the recent crash in crypto markets and the gnat-like attention span of major media outlets, the fervor around NFTs has subsided a bit in recent months. It’s hard to remember now, but earlier this spring they were all anyone could talk about. …

The AI of the Beholder — People used to think horses ran like dogs, bounding forward with all four legs off the ground. …

Recently I was fortunate enough to see the Whitney Biennial. What follows are my thoughts and impressions. — As I entered the darkened floor of the Whitney Biennial, I found myself in a nearly silent room. The only noises are muffled sounds in the walls and a glass vial with a dim light on it. This is a part, we must assume of the same practice as Raven…

Curious Case of the Contemporary Museum part two — Most people who have even a passing familiarity with modern/contemporary art are familiar with the classic dumb-guy adage: “A child could make this!” While that’s not usually the case for the art on display at major modern art museums, most of which was produced by highly trained and skilled artists…

Part One I have always loved museums. Ever since I was a small child, I’ve felt at home in a museum — even when the museum in question literally had my people (or our bones) on display behind glass (I am Seneca-Cayuga Nation on my mom’s side). Sometimes people are…

AI images are less like paintings and more like funhouse mirrors — In the summer of 2015, Google’s AI Blog introduced the world to one of the most famous and influential figures in the history of artistic AI: the puppy-slug. In truth, the puppy-slug is not one image, nor is it even a single character. Rather, “puppy-slug” refers to the unsettling psychedelia…

The uncanny valley is one of the most famous ideas from the field of digital aesthetics. First identified by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori (and coined in English by Mori’s translator Jessica Reichardt), the concept describes the tendency for people to experience an unease, bordering on revulsion, when confronting something that…