Congratulations to the winner of this year’s @Georgetown University #BarkTank pitch competition, The Petition Co.!   Every year, Bark Tank reinforces the power of entrepreneurship when it’s driven by purpose… and this year was no exception.💡   Huge kudos to all the finalists for your ideas and dedication. You’re a true inspiration. #HoyaSaxa

Grateful to share our newest AI Data Painting — a public art installation opening soon @IntuitDome for @LAClippers !!!

The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet –– Interviewing Epic Games Founder/CEO @TimSweeneyEpic & Author/Entrepreneur @nealstephenson by @ballmatthew. Ft. thoughts on the Vision Pro, ethics of GenAI, LAMINA1/blockchains, “Snow Crash 2" & more... matthewball.co/all/sweeneyst…

Sasha Stiles on how technology renews our relationship with storytelling For the artist and poet, collaborating with AI offers a portal to new expression: bit.ly/3UAOL2i

Invigorating think tank evening at the Microsoft Garage. Curious who y’all recognize here 😏

We know that technology has changed art, and that artists have evolved with every new technology — it’s a tale as old as humanity, moving from cave paintings to computers. Underlying these movements are endless debates around inventing versus remixing; between commercialism and art; between mainstream canon and fringe art; whether we’re living in an artistic monoculture now (the answer may surprise you); and much much more. So in our new podcast episode featuring Berlin-based contemporary artist @dennnnnnnnny-- in conversation with a16z crypto editor in chief @smc90 -- we discuss all of the above debates. We also cover how artists experimented with the emergence of new technology platforms like the web browser, the iPhone, Instagram and social media; to how generative art found its “native” medium on blockchains, why NFTs; and other art movements. Denny also thinks of entrepreneurial ideas -- from Peter Thiel's to Chris Dixon's Read Write Own -- as an "aesthetic"; and thinks of technology artifacts (like NSA sketches!) as art -- reflecting all of these in his works across various mediums and contexts. How has technology changed art, and more importantly, how have artists changed with technology? How does art change our place in the world, or span beyond space? It's about optimism, and seeing things anew... all this and more in this episode. Check out the episode here: web3-with-a16z.simplecast.co…

Exploring gen AI is cool too. Just pointing out that art is not an arms race, and bleeding edge tech is neither necessary nor sufficient condition for making good art. It's about the social context of how/why an artist uses whatever tools they do, whether simple or complex.

"(…) generative art has now escaped its very small community, and it's entered into a much larger world. In doing so, it's gotten wrapped up and tied in with cryptocurrencies and NFTs, and while I don't think it needed to be that way, that's how it happened. While these new economies allowed generative art to grow, I wonder, how does that affect the medium’s future? In which ways has it enabled the space, and in which ways has it damaged the space?" – Casey @REAS in conversation with Willa Köerner (@willak)

I’d rather be in a dark silence than (2020) Our signal blocking trench coat—any devices put in the pocket are offline. Seen here using the accompanying AR displacement filter. Video from Digital Roots exhibition @verticalcrypto at Neuehouse LA 2022. operator.la/blog/id-rather-b…