Millions of images generated with code have fueled the engine of a new economy. But modern art has been associated with a lot of shenanigans over the years — is AI art the dawn of a new era, or the art world’s latest prank? — Generative Art uses techniques from Machine Learning and Machine Vision to generate images. And it has produced a lot of headlines around the subject of what is and isn’t real art.

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. So last semester, when passions were running…

A curated list of cool water data resources One of my current ongoing projects is Talk To Me About Water, an indigenous artist-led collective dedicated to promoting and advancing conversations about water! As part of this project, we have been collecting many data sets that are free and available to…

What we can learn from indigenous gifting and games of chance. The longer you spend engaging in blockchain discourse, the more variations you will hear on the same analogy: “Crypto is a casino!” I’ve written elsewhere about the many applications of blockchain technology to domains beyond mere asset speculation (NFTs…

This tutorial uses Algorand, Rand Gallery, MyAlgo, Procreate®, C4D, Squarespace, and Photoshop — There are many ways to mint an NFT on Algorand. NFTs are non-fungible tokens and digital assets that are based on blockchain technology. For this tutorial, we are going to use Algorand; it is inexpensive to mint (I think I spent $.20 …

and The Woman Who Could Not Be Content With Simple Things. If you know me, you know I’m Seneca-Cayuga (Deer Clan) which is part of the Haudenosaunee — or what you might know as the Iroquois — Confederacy. The way I think about and relate to technology, especially blockchain, is…

But what does being “back” actually mean? — Nearly two and a half years after Covid lockdowns, we are finally back! But what does being “back” actually mean? Let’s first take stock of where we’ve been. In early 2020 we all sheltered in place. As we settled into an indefinite lockdown, everyone started to get a little weird…

Interspecies Future Podcast from the LAS 2022 is out now. I attended an Interspecies Future Symposium at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Berlin’s Natural History Museum, with the first T-Rex ever found, named Tristan, my son is also named Tristan). One of our hosts LAS (Light Art Space) describes Interspecies…