"I Hate To Love You" by Vintage Voltage

I am hypnotized by the visuals for this song, "I Hate To Love You" by Swedish duo Vintage Voltage. Created by an artist who goes by the name Myst Cult, it has signs of both AI mixed with some old-fashioned (!) digital art.

https://vintagevoltage.bandcamp.com/
https://mystcult.com/

Words For These Times

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
--Aldous Huxley

AI imagery by Xander Steenbrugge for "Exotic Contents" by Max Cooper

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
--Carl Sagan

AI imagery by Xander Steenbrugge for "Exotic Contents" by Max Cooper

“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who only know what to think.”
--Neil deGrasse Tyson

BEAUTY: AI Digital Art for Winter--Robert Mealing (Spiritus Loci)

Artist Robert Mealing working as Spiritus Loci (previously here) uses the AI tool Midjourney to create some gorgeous portraits of Pagan and Druid men (and magical spirits?) from long ago in his "Winterborne" series...perfect for this time of year.

https://spiritusloci.tumblr.com/

BEAUTY: AI Digital Art for Halloween--Robert Mealing (Spiritus Loci)

Artist Robert Mealing uses the AI tool Midjourney to create some gorgeous, spooky imagery, and his ongoing October Misremembered series is perfect for this time of year. I posted his creations last year here, and he has updated the project with new images for 2024, seen below. This new crop reminds me of Victorian Ghost Photography, seen here.

https://spiritusloci.tumblr.com/

BEAUTY: Painting--BENKA

I just discovered the work of  BENKA. His artist statement on his site explains it all:

BENKA opposes mankind´s dangerous game of underestimating the consequences of AI. Whether it is the digitization of our social relations through the invasion of smartphone screens, the progressive introduction of humanoids and cyber-surveillance, our contemporary society is facing a crazy mutation.

His artistic approach aims to expose the question of the robotization of our world. If we are still very far from a war against robots as seen in the series of Terminator, our time calls in his opinion to the questioning of our relationship to artificial intelligence. If A.I. has a considerable advantage in fields such as medicine or astronomy, on the other hand, it presents many drawbacks and raises both questions and concerns.

These numbers and letters in his paintings are captchas.

A captcha is a program that protects websites from bots by generating tests that humans can perform unlike malicious computer programs (robots). The captcha is used to verify, for example, that you are a human when connecting to an interface (login) or to avoid "SPAM" on your mailboxes for contact forms on your website.

These captchas are interpreted by BENKA and transformed into a symbol of his artistic struggle.

https://www.instagram.com/benka.1

New Nike A.I.R. Footwear

When Nike introduced their now-controversial 2024 Olympics outfits for the Track and Field division several weeks ago, they also debuted a new line of conceptual footwear developed using man-made sketches, computational and parametric design, generative AI, rapid prototyping, and 3D printers. While some look like modified versions of a regular Nike shoe, others seem to be from the far future or even an alternate dimension. And I think they are amazing.

https://www.nike.com/

BEAUTY: AI Art--Justin Brown

For Gay History Month, here is the AI art work of Justin Brown who creates images of men in love in the style of antique paintings: Art Nouveau, 1920s Leyendecker, Pre-Raphaelite, Klimt, Edwardian, Neo-Classical, Renaissance...

We have always been here. We will always be here.

https://www.instagram.com/gaydreamsicle/