Kraków asks what the machines are doing to our plans.
Patchlab Digital Art Festival opened its 15th edition on Thursday under the title Dream Sim, running through Sun Oct 18 across the city. "Fifteen years ago, we were asking what we could do with new technologies. Today, we are asking what they are doing to our plans," says artistic director Elwira Wojtunik-Láng. Vladimir Nefedov's Infinity Eggs is built entirely from early AI video models: twelve glitching episodes of an Earth run by an alien bureaucracy. On Saturday, fuse* stages Onirica, a dance in which diffusion models turn more than 28,000 recorded dreams into images that follow the dancer.
Today in London, OONA (@madebyoona) marries David.
Since 2019 the performance artist has been writing to David, the Transport for London CCTV data manager who handles her footage requests, and their correspondence became Dear David, a series made from that footage. Its final letter, Dear David, I Do. Do You?, came out on objkt on Tuesday, curated by Anika Meier (@postanika) for The Second-Guess (@_second_guess) with Art on Tezos (@artontezos_). The wedding is the live finale: 240 RSVPs, an NDA for guests, and one open question. "I still don't know if David is gonna show!"
Games that refuse to be won.
Escape>Control>Play: The Art of the Video Game held its opening reception Thursday at Drexel University's Pearlstein Gallery in Philadelphia, on view through Dec 12. Jeremy Couillard's Escape from Lavender Island drops the player on an island a corporation seized through debt; .Compost Cooperative's The Alembic Hotel rebuilds Atlanta's Marriott Marquis as an abandoned hotel that turns out to be a website. Also showing: Lu Yang's Uterus Man and Caper in the Castro, a 1989 detective game.
Forty years, one question.
In Mexico City, Museo UNAM HOY opened I+IA on Thursday, marking 40 years of CEIICH, UNAM's interdisciplinary research centre. Works by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sofía Crespo (@soficrespo91) and Rogelio Séptimo (@RogelioSeptimo) sit beside an interactive device built by a CEIICH research team, taking on AI and memory, representation, algorithmic bias, forced disappearance, and the line between the human, the natural and the artificial.
Trace (@traceforms), the on-chain ASCII experiment by Vesty (@0xvesty) on Ethereum, turned to color on Thursday.
The update puts every character in color, makes the canvas grid more detailed and gives characters different visual styles.
New on http://catalogue.gallery: Zoe Louise (@MelzieQ) opens Born in a Lucid Dream on http://ord.net today at 11 AM ET: 36 works of roses, light and new life, all inscribed on alpha sats, listed at 0.0048 BTC for 7 days, with anything unsold staying with her.
And ThankYouX (@ThankYouX) takes Doom Scroll, his datamoshed series built from real feed footage, to Marfa on Sat Oct 24 during Art Blocks Marfa Weekend. "I got sick of the algorithm telling me what to look at," he says.