Mat Dryhurst
@matdryhurst
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Creator w/ @hollyherndon 🦇🔊 AI @spawning_
Berlin, Germany
Joined June 2008
On the cover of @ArtReview_ with a beautiful piece of writing on our art by Chris Fite-Wassilak in advance of our @SerpentineUK opening tomorrow
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This is really good
Wrote about social media and the decline in book reading. Standard thought goes something like ‘ppl read less books bc they’re always on social media.’ Is this actually true? https://t.co/FQTm5dfvdq
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Villa could do the funniest thing and loan Duran back for a chaotic title push
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zooming out my feeling was always this was a minor miracle - far better to see communities emerge primarily interested in supporting digital work than not. Valuing digital work was a much bigger obstacle to overcome than introducing those collectors to digital art history.
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if we rewind back to 2021 it was clear influential corners of the intellectual engine behind resistance to NFTs in part came from many digital artists who had lived in a world where that work was never commercially valued. It stung, not least during COVID, to see digital work
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there are fallbacks for this - the university system is full of artists and writers whose practices are primarily concerned with the digital but who could not thrive in a gallery system that doesn't know how to sell those works. Why it's always important to never conflate sales
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This is where I think there is nuance with the discussion of digital art being centered around art fairs I'd argue art fairs are one view into the established art world, through the lens of what galleries know how to sell. What galleries know how to sell ≠ what they think is
@pravijn it makes sense - art fairs are different to biennials/exhibitions/museums as they represent the bottom line for the gallery system The gallery system did not find a way to represent artists whose primary mode of practice is digital - and in isolated cases where they have done it
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David Robbins (of SAIC) framed this as "High Entertainment", and that spirit was influential on early post-internet artists That was a niche borne from MFA programs and institutional art, and of course high entertainment explored fully would come from elsewhere
@briandroitcour post-contemporary art might have more in common with mass-media, tech industry, pop culture than the structures of modern and contemporary art.
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I do think it’s funny how choir nerds are somehow at the center of this AI debate so do feel a duty to add to this Beyond this quote being misleading about the ability for humans to transform *with* AI I think it is borderline offensively wrong to raise Tallis in opposition to
If you have ~8 mins, please listen to this short discussion I had on BBC Radio 3 this weekend, talking about AI & our silent protest album. I love this quote from @suzidigby: "AI recreates; humans transform. AI imitates; humans imagine. AI outputs; humans express." Perfect.
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I'm speaking in the @Future_Frontend meetup in Helsinki next week. I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native, from building the Starmirror app for @hollyherndon and @matdryhurst.
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it's truly a blessing to be able to merge so many interests in one project, revealed to us by a serendipitous moment. and to do it in such willing and adventurous company — thank you. onwards we tread.
Open-endedness reconciles the high goals of machine learning with the goals of high art, establishing the freedom for machines and humans to freely explore what interests them in the hope of discovering something new. We conceived this project as a game to try and give agents
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We went on two novelty search expeditions for Holly & Mat this autumn. First to Kinder Scout in The Peak District, with various cameras attached to our bodies. Then in the latent space of image diffusion models, prospected by agentic LLMs in an ongoing search for novel imagery.
Open-endedness reconciles the high goals of machine learning with the goals of high art, establishing the freedom for machines and humans to freely explore what interests them in the hope of discovering something new. We conceived this project as a game to try and give agents
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Open-endedness reconciles the high goals of machine learning with the goals of high art, establishing the freedom for machines and humans to freely explore what interests them in the hope of discovering something new. We conceived this project as a game to try and give agents
A short look inside “Kinder Scout” by @hollyherndon and @matdryhurst at @ArtBasel Miami Beach. Inspired by Ken Stanley’s Novelty Search and a right-to-roam mindset, *Kinder Scout* sends a group of AI “expedition” agents into the hidden space of a diffusion model to look for
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It was two entirely different worlds, no middle ground, no competition of ideas even, almost a like there is a quiet treaty to occupy entirely different territories
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The question is how everyone else might make up the gap. I just cant get my head around how conservative and anachronistic the rest of it felt in contrast.
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As someone with feet in both worlds I’m conflicted, as the demand for wide ownership/interactivity/memeability is working with a very different set of conditions native to the internet that don’t fit for a lot of practices But the NFT section is engaging and having fun with it
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