AI Art Newsletter - 26 Jan 2025
AI Art News - January 26, 2025
Latest Industry Developments
Adobe Announces “Controls Era” for AI Art
Adobe’s VP of Generative AI has made a significant announcement about the future of AI art, highlighting the evolving relationship between “prompt jockeys” and traditional digital artists. Read more
The AI Art Magazine Makes History
A groundbreaking development in the AI art world has emerged with the launch of the first dedicated print publication for AI-generated artwork. The magazine features 50 carefully curated works selected by expert judges, marking a significant step toward mainstream recognition of AI art. Read more
Netflix’s AI Art Controversy
Netflix recently faced backlash after accidentally using AI-generated art in a promotional poster for their animated show Arcane. The incident was discovered due to anatomical inconsistencies, leading to the poster’s swift removal following creator outcry. Read more
Surprising Results in AI Art Perception Study
A recent blind test revealed that even AI art skeptics tend to prefer AI-generated artwork when unaware of its origin, challenging prevalent biases in art appreciation. Read more
Upcoming Events & Competitions
The AI Art Magazine Launch Event - February 20, 2025
Design Zentrum Hamburg
- Exhibition opening: 17:30
- Panel Discussion: 18:00
- Interactive Prompt Battle: 19:00
- Networking: Until 21:30 Read more
AI-ARTS Competition (3rd Edition) - September 13, 2024
- 1 Winner Position
- 4 Second-Place Positions
- Permanent exhibition opportunity Learn more
The SOLO AI AWARD
Global digital/new media art competition for artists 18+
- Cash prizes
- Exhibition opportunities Learn more
Ars Artificialis Exhibition
Bristol Art Gallery
- Open call for AI-generated artwork
- Accepting submissions created with various AI art generators Learn more
Resources for AI Artists
2024 Competition Guide
Comprehensive guide to AI art competitions and exhibitions for the year ahead Learn more
AI Artists News
Refik Anadol
A pioneering AI artist and professor is set to open a world-class AI museum in Los Angeles. Anadol continues to position himself as a positive voice for AI in arts, viewing the technology as a medium for creating beauty rather than just a tool for efficiency. This museum marks a significant milestone in legitimizing AI art within traditional art institutions.
Sougwen Chung
The Art Newspaper has recognized Chung as “one of the most compelling artists” in the AI art field. Their boundary-pushing work at the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence continues to gain mainstream acceptance and critical attention.
Stephanie Dinkins
Dinkins, who holds the Kusama endowed chair in art at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently gave a Provost’s Spotlight Talk focusing on the intersection of AI and art. This event showcases the growing academic interest in AI art discourse.
Trevor Paglen
| Paglen’s work “CLOUD #557 | Hough Line Transform; Hough Circle Transform” (2023) was featured in Aperture magazine’s Winter 2024 issue focused on “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI.” The piece, shown at Altman Siegel gallery in San Francisco, explores computer vision algorithms and natural phenomena. |
Botto
The autonomous AI art system has generated over $5 million from artwork sales since its 2021 launch. Operating as a “decentralized autonomous artist,” Botto represents a significant milestone in the commercial viability of AI-generated art.
Recent LinkedIn Updates
Nathan Benaich’s Post
Nathan Benaich discusses how DeepSeek (a Chinese open-source AI model) is benefiting AI startups by providing a cost-effective alternative to expensive American AI models. He shares that one of his portfolio companies has already replaced Meta’s LLaMA 3 with a Chinese open-source alternative, resulting in improved unit economics. The post highlights the growing influence of Chinese AI models in the global AI ecosystem and their potential cost advantages for startups. #chineseai #genai #llm
Kirell Benzi’s Post
Kirell Benzi announces the opening of “Shapes: Patterns in Art and Science” exhibition at EPFL Pavilions, featuring his work on sphere packing and E8 polytope. The interactive installation combines mathematics, art, and technology, using iPad and SpaceMouse for navigating high-dimensional visualizations. The exhibition runs from January 17 to March 9, 2025, at EPFL Pavilions, Pavilion A. More information available at go.epfl.ch/Shapes2025.
Anna Dumitriu’s Post
Anna Dumitriu announces her role as a guest professor at Diriyah Art Futures for the week. The post is a brief professional update about reaching her destination and starting her academic appointment at this art institution. This appears to be a legitimate professional update relevant to her career in arts education.
Memo Akten’s Post
The post promotes “SUPERRADIANCE,” an artistic collaboration between Memo Akten & Katie Peyton Hofstadter (superradiance.net), featuring poetic text about soil, forests, and breathing. It’s a multimedia project supported by various institutions including Tribeca Film Festival and Getty PST, with music by Machinefabriek. While promotional in nature, it appears to be a legitimate artistic work exploring themes of nature, ecology, and artificial intelligence through digital art and technology. The project combines poetry, visual art, and sound to create an immersive experience examining the relationship between natural and digital ecosystems.
Eilidh Macdonald’s Post
Announcement for an upcoming Whitehead lecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Dr. Chrisantha Fernando from Google DeepMind will present “The Struggle for Mutual Awareness (or What it’s like to be a Thermostat)” on Wednesday, January 22 at 4pm. These lectures on Cognition, Computation and Culture are held weekly on Wednesdays during term time. More information available at:
Devi Parikh’s Post
The post is from Devi Parikh introducing Yutori, a new AI company developing multi-agent systems. They’re building AI agents that can handle various tasks simultaneously while maintaining user control and transparency. The platform aims to balance automation with user oversight, providing relevant updates without overwhelming users. The post includes two links for more information: x.com/yutori_ai (Twitter) and yutori.com. While promotional in nature, it provides insight into emerging AI agent technology and its practical applications.
Ana Maria Pricop’s Post
Announcement of leadership changes at Sigma Squared Society’s UK chapter. Ana Maria Pricop introduces Ina Jovicic as the new UK Co-Executive. Ana will focus on investor relations and partnerships, while Ina will concentrate on building the UK community. The post mentions upcoming nominations with a deadline of February 1st. More information available at: https://lnkd.in/dQZmKSPR
Milette Gillow’s Post
Milette Gillow announces her appointment to the governing board of Oxford High School GDST, where she was a student 15 years ago. Having recently returned to Oxfordshire in September, she expresses her commitment to encouraging more girls to pursue coding. The post is a personal career update that highlights her connection to education and technology, while emphasizing her goal of promoting coding among female students.
Aniket Maurya’s Post
The post advises users not to wait for large AI investments and suggests a practical alternative to ChatGPT when it’s down by using DeepSeek R1 with LitServe locally. The author shares a resource link (https://lnkd.in/eD-5UYCt) for implementation. This is a technical tip relevant to AI practitioners and developers looking for ChatGPT alternatives.
David Barber’s Post
David Barber shares and comments on a Financial Times article discussing the need to reform UK university and PhD funding systems. He emphasizes the critical role of PhD students in research, teaching, and innovation advancement. The post includes a relevant link to the article (https://lnkd.in/gnkbrqRU) and contributes to an important academic policy discussion. This appears to be a substantive share of educational policy content rather than promotional material.
Yuki Mitsufuji, PhD’s Post
The post announces 6 research papers from Sony’s lab that have been accepted at ICLR 2024 (International Conference on Learning Representations). The papers focus on various aspects of AI and machine learning, including:
Alexander Mordvintsev’s Post
Alexander Mordvintsev shares a professional update about making progress on their circuit simulator project, specifically highlighting a milestone in achieving automatic analysis of stateful cells, though noting it works intermittently. This appears to be a genuine technical achievement update relevant to engineering/computing.
One week to go before our ART x TECH hackathon at Central Working Whitechapel. It’s time to release the challenges from our project partners Artfinder, Sedition, Vastari and Gitoon.
Announcement of an upcoming ART x TECH hackathon at Central Working Whitechapel, featuring challenges from four project partners:
Charlotte Diamond’s Post
Professional announcement of joining Tiffany & Co. as a Global High Jewelry Strategy Specialist in New York City. The post appears to be a genuine career update with relevant hashtags (#TiffanyAndCo #TiffanyCareers #LifeatTiffany) indicating a new role at a major luxury jewelry company.
Oonagh Murphy’s Post
Oonagh Murphy is planning a trip to Los Angeles in May 2024 to attend the American Alliance of Museums conference and is seeking recommendations for:
Ashley Zlatinov’s Post
Anthropic is hiring for their product public policy team, seeking an experienced policy expert to connect product development with policy stakeholders and help shape responsible AI development practices. Position details can be found at: https://lnkd.in/gxsMNvzm
Eric Snowden’s Post
A technical announcement about the launch of new API features that enable bulk image processing capabilities, including AI-powered background removal and image resizing that can handle up to 10,000 images simultaneously. The post links to more details at https://lnkd.in/gPMuMbJb and indicates future feature expansions are planned. While somewhat promotional in nature, it provides relevant information about new technical capabilities in image processing APIs.
Hannah Sorkin’s Post
Hannah Sorkin announces the launch of PlayMaker (https://lnkd.in/eJXhhtMc), a new platform that aims to streamline sports sponsorship management. Born from her experience at Anheuser-Busch’s Sports Partnerships team, where she faced challenges managing multiple sports team contracts and partnership executions manually, PlayMaker offers automation and improved visibility in partnership management. The platform, co-founded with Sameer Mehra, was developed after extensive industry research and aims to help brands and rights holders better manage their partnerships while focusing on relationship building. While promotional in nature, the post provides valuable context about a solution to a common industry problem and includes personal experience that validates the need for such a tool.
Louise Ballard (Moody)’s Post
A personal narrative from Louise Ballard, co-founder of Atheni.ai, discussing how she and Mackenzie M. Howe started an AI company as middle-aged mothers. The post references Jensen Huang’s (NVIDIA) CES 2024 keynote emphasizing how industry experience is crucial in the AI era. She highlights that by 2030, 85% of new jobs will require AI literacy, and argues that age and experience are assets rather than limitations. She cites examples of successful late-blooming founders like Anne Boden (Starling Bank) and Trinny Woodall (Trinny London). The post emphasizes that AI literacy is about communication rather than coding, and AI should enhance rather than replace human expertise.
Oonagh Murphy’s Post
Researcher shares success of AHRC-funded (£60k) publication on AI ethics in creative industries, originally published in 2020, which has been translated into multiple languages (German, Italian, English, Chinese, Spanish) with the most recent Chinese translation in 2024. The post demonstrates international impact and knowledge dissemination of UK-funded research on Responsible AI in creative sectors.
Zoe Jay Hawkins’ Post
The post announces the launch of the Tech Policy Design Institute (TPDi), Australia’s first independent think tank focused on tech policy. The author, Zoe Jay Hawkins, along with co-founders Johanna Weaver and Sunita Kumar, established TPDi to shape tech policy for societal benefit through research, education, commentary, and community building. The organization has assembled a notable board and advisory group including industry leaders like Frances Haugen and Audrey Tang. The initiative builds on work done by ANU’s Tech Policy Centre and aims to collaborate with government, industry, civil society, and academia. More information is available in an AFR article by Tess Bennett and on TPDi’s website (links not provided in original post). Launch timing appears to be early 2024 with reference to activities planned for 2025.
Payal Arora’s Post
Payal Arora announces her upcoming speaking engagement at Future Days conference in Lisbon, Portugal. The event features notable speakers including Forbes 30under30 designer Inês Ayer, UNESCO Chair Sohail Inayatullah, and experts from MIT, Royal College of Art, and other institutions. The conference focuses on action-oriented projects and initiatives targeting multiple generations. Event details and tickets are available at:
Julia Tian’s Post
Julia Tian announces and welcomes the 2025 Adobe Creative Residents: Jessica Starns, Ciara Neufeldt, and Michael Akuagwu. This is the second cohort of residents in a partnership between Adobe, V&A, and MoMA, though the program originally began at Adobe in 2015. The post celebrates 10 years of the program working with emerging artists and anticipates the residents’ 12-month journey ahead. The post highlights Adobe’s ongoing commitment to fostering creative talent and its partnerships with major art institutions.
Elizabeth Galvin’s Post
Elizabeth Galvin announces the arrival of the second cohort of Adobe Creative Residency program at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A). This appears to be a genuine professional update about an educational/creative partnership between Adobe and the V&A museum.
Zeeza Cole’s Post
Zeeza Cole announces joining Avid Ventures as a Partner. Avid is a NYC-based investment fund focusing on Pre-Seed to Series A investments in software and fintech companies. She previously worked at Bain Capital Ventures for 4+ years. In her new role, she will focus on early-stage investments and founder support. She can be contacted at [email protected]. This is a professional career update highlighting a significant role change in the venture capital industry.
Cailean Osborne’s Post
Announcement of a webinar by the European Open Source Academy featuring speaker Cailean Osborne. The event will discuss the open source AI community in Europe and policy priorities. Event details: January 15th, 2025 at 14:00 CET via Zoom. Registration available at https://lnkd.in/dmaC3s6N. While promotional in nature, it’s relevant for those interested in European open source AI initiatives and policy.
Latest AI Art Preprints
One Does Not Simply Meme Alone: Evaluating Co-Creativity Between LLMs
and Humans in the Generation of Humor Zhikun Wu, Thomas Weber, Florian Müller
This study explores AI creativity through meme generation, comparing human-only, human-AI collaborative, and AI-only approaches. Key findings: Read more
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