AI

 Image of Roberto Matta’s Crucifixion (1979) blended with Max Ernst’s Leonora in the Morning Light (1940) made by the author with Midjourney, 2022

Image of Roberto Matta’s Crucifixion (1979) blended with Max Ernst’s Leonora in the Morning Light (1940) made by the author with Midjourney, 2022

Are AI projects like DALL·E and Imagen literary endeavors? And are they our only hope for a new aesthetic?

 Photo: Jeff Busby

Photo: Jeff Busby

How will our lives be when AI rules the world? Back to Back Theatre’s new play at the Wiener Festwochen provides a theory.

 Bored Ape Yacht Club #8817, 2021

Bored Ape Yacht Club #8817, 2021

Do bad artists know that they’re bad? Is bad taste, like Ed Hardy, back? In his June column, Dean Kissick explores value and taste by looking at “ultra-modernity,” manufacturing demand, and images that weren’t made by humans.