AI-generated artwork has become a popular trend in the art world in the past 5 years. It has shaped the way artists approach artistic production, critics thinking about artworks, and gallerists/collectors proceeding with pricing and collecting artworks. As AI takes on different levels of ownership in the creative process and artistic production, it disrupts the […]
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AI has been slowing encroaching on every facet of modern life. It runs our phones, it navigates our vehicles, and has even begun to finish our sentences. As of now its encroachment into our everyday life has been mundane. Since AI operates most effectively behind the scenes, and is difficult to explain to the average […]
Philosopher Vilem Flusser said, “We do not think about the act of writing while writing, but about what we are writing.” We understand writing as a form of art that comes directly from soul to page, an intimate reveal of human emotion. This core concept of writing is complicated with the development of AI trained […]
Motion capture technology (also known as Mo-cap) is the process of digitally recording the movement of an object. It translates the motion trajectory into data and models. This technology is widely used in entertainment, medical applications, military, and arts industries. Maybe the word doesn’t sound so familiar to you, but you must have come into […]
Museums ranging in all disciplines act as cultural hubs that narrate a story to their visitors. These spaces, and the people who curate the items that are found in these spaces, in many ways dictate the cultural identity of the respective area they exist in. The items acquired by museums often have great cultural significance […]
The hype around non-fungible tokens (NFTs) seems to be reaching a fever pitch. With news of certain digital art pieces selling for tens of millions of dollars and conjecture about what utility these tokens may have outside of the art world, for better or for worse, Web3 has arrived. These technological developments aren’t just demonstrating […]
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Using AI to Detect Fraud
Back in 2013, a controversy shook the music industry when Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams allegedly plagiarized Marvin Gaye’s song “Give it Up” in their pop (and sexist) hit, “Blurred Lines.” The lawsuit began when Gaye’s children sued Thicke and Williams for stealing their father’s song. Gaye’s offspring were ultimately awarded millions of dollars due […]
As new virtual technologies make their way into the arts and on-stage, there is a much more tangible technology currently being utilized in theater and most audience members do not even realize they are watching it. Like many technological ideas, the concept of 3D printing has been around much longer than the actual capability to […]