The Art of the Concept: Costume Design in the Age of GenAIThe key to becoming a successful concept artist is to digest as much art as you can, learn from your peers… — Nadia StefynOct 301Oct 301
Foundation Year: The Importance of the Remix in GenAIAs an abstract figurative painter, I relate the modes and attributes of light and color to a geometric structure. Themes are drawn from the…Oct 25Oct 25
The Ethics of the Remix: GenAI in Public SpaceWhen I started to think about AI as a tool that we could use to look at the past and not to the future, it became such an approachable and…Oct 19Oct 19
Leap-ing Through Time: From Gesture Technology to GenAINearly a decade ago I was introduced to Leap Motion, a company that was attempting to revolutionize human-computer interaction with gesture…Oct 14Oct 14
Barely Detected: Reflecting on the ‘Aura’ of Generative AI ArtIn January 2023 I wrote an article titled “The Aura of AI-Generated Art” that received a lot of attention. I referenced Walter Benjamin via…Oct 52Oct 52
The Kongo Cosmogram & Latent Space: Culturally Relevant Machine LearningOne year ago today I visited Casa do Jongo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as part of my work with the Ford Global Fellowship or FGF. There, we…Sep 26Sep 26
Here, Now & Then: Black Joy & Generative Artificial IntelligenceIn the fall of 2016 I spoke at Yale University for the “Aesthetic Activism” symposium that was convened by designer/architect Mark Foster…Sep 11Sep 11
Dream Variations: Langston Hughes, Dreamtime & DeepDreamI’ve been thinking a lot about dreaming, which is defined as a series of events or images that happen in your mind when you are at rest…Sep 6Sep 6
The Evolution of the Remix: Mechanical Reproduction to Machine LearningOne of the first times I heard the word “remix” spoken was in the 1988 rap song “Serious” with Steady B and featuring KRS-One who says,Sep 3Sep 3