AI

Discourse
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

The Downward Spiral: Text-to-Image

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

Views
Photo: Jeff Busby

Photo: Jeff Busby

Intellectual Disability in the Age of AI, a Prophecy

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

Discourse
Bored Ape Yacht Club #8817, 2021

Bored Ape Yacht Club #8817, 2021

The Downward Spiral: Taste, Figures, Images

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.