Whitney Biennial 2024: xhairymutantx
Contribute to this project at xhairymutantx.whitney.org xhairymutantx began by asking the question: do we get to choose how we are represented on the AI substrate? One of the original promises of the internet was self-determination of identity online. As the famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon put forward; “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”. The promise of a digital existence brought with it the promise of reinvention, of mutable, often multiple, identities and existences. There is a com...
Whitney Biennial 2024: xhairymutantx
Contribute to this project at xhairymutantx.whitney.org xhairymutantx began by asking the question: do we get to choose how we are represented on the AI substrate? One of the original promises of the internet was self-determination of identity online. As the famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon put forward; “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”. The promise of a digital existence brought with it the promise of reinvention, of mutable, often multiple, identities and existences. There is a com...
Readyweights, minting concepts
We thought to experiment with a new method for sharing an AI assisted artwork and minting the concepts underlying it. In identifying our original work within the latent potential of an AI model, we introduce the idea of the readyweight (a pun on a readymade. We will explain). https://opensea.io/assets/0x1698E9789d7CB10C90408963F473d59Fc303CCB7/1 On the surface this NFT involves a 3D model of an original sculpture we made, a mutant horse that appears in a larger sculpted relief we were commiss...
Readyweights, minting concepts
We thought to experiment with a new method for sharing an AI assisted artwork and minting the concepts underlying it. In identifying our original work within the latent potential of an AI model, we introduce the idea of the readyweight (a pun on a readymade. We will explain). https://opensea.io/assets/0x1698E9789d7CB10C90408963F473d59Fc303CCB7/1 On the surface this NFT involves a 3D model of an original sculpture we made, a mutant horse that appears in a larger sculpted relief we were commiss...
D̶i̶g̶i̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶S̶c̶a̶r̶c̶i̶t̶y̶ Feasible Abundance and the Shock of the Nude
Robert Doisneau: Woman Registering Shock at a Painting of a Nude in Paris Shop Window, 19487:17PM CET update: People requested to collect this piece of writing so I made it collectible. That is very nice and compliments the piece. <3The "Web 3 arbitrarily introduces scarcity to digital media" critique seems to never go away and I think it is fundamentally flawed. Digital media has always been scarce, because there is a rights holder conferred by law unless that rights holder renounces those r...
D̶i̶g̶i̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶S̶c̶a̶r̶c̶i̶t̶y̶ Feasible Abundance and the Shock of the Nude
Robert Doisneau: Woman Registering Shock at a Painting of a Nude in Paris Shop Window, 19487:17PM CET update: People requested to collect this piece of writing so I made it collectible. That is very nice and compliments the piece. <3The "Web 3 arbitrarily introduces scarcity to digital media" critique seems to never go away and I think it is fundamentally flawed. Digital media has always been scarce, because there is a rights holder conferred by law unless that rights holder renounces those r...
Infinite Images and the latent camera
We have had the great pleasure to be working with OpenAI InPaint and DALL·E 1 for many months, and thought it would be constructive to document some techniques, ideas and reflections that have been raised through exploring these remarkable tools in honor of the announcement and warranted public excitement around DALL·E 2.Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst (DALL·E 1 test image)BackstoryIf you are new to this area, it is worth establishing a brief timeline of developments from the past year. In Ja...
Infinite Images and the latent camera
We have had the great pleasure to be working with OpenAI InPaint and DALL·E 1 for many months, and thought it would be constructive to document some techniques, ideas and reflections that have been raised through exploring these remarkable tools in honor of the announcement and warranted public excitement around DALL·E 2.Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst (DALL·E 1 test image)BackstoryIf you are new to this area, it is worth establishing a brief timeline of developments from the past year. In Ja...
