Clouds you have to earn.
Today the Museum of the Moving Image (@MovingImageNYC) in New York unveils Nephomancer (2026) by Misha de Ridder (@mishaderidder) and miragenesi (@miragenesi), the latest media wall commission in its partnership with the Tezos Foundation (@TezosFoundation), through Dec 6. It starts from 60 photographs of clouds, made with a camera that turns raw sensor data into a zero-knowledge proof at the moment of capture, confirming the image is genuine without ever showing it. On the wall the clouds stay obscured, each photo and its proof rendered in the abstract, as image and sound. Visitors send a message that crosses the clouds as a spiral; when it resonates with the proofs, they may receive a poem, and a poem shown to Visitor Services earns a print of one of the 60 original clouds. "What happens when seeing is no longer believing?"
A collection that gives itself away.
Christie's (@ChristiesInc) will sell The Collection of Agnes Gund to benefit the Gund Art Foundation, led by a 1990 Ocean painting by Vija Celmins (estimate $6 to 8 million) in the 21st Century Evening Sale on Nov 19, with works by Calder, Twombly, Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman and Sarah Sze across live and online sales. Gund was president of MoMA from 1991 to 2002 and gave it more than 800 works, founded Studio in a School in 1977, and in 2017 turned the sale of Lichtenstein's Masterpiece into $100 million for the Art for Justice Fund.
New on http://catalogue.gallery: the model only learns to dream them.
Ivona Tau (@ivonatau), who holds a PhD in AI, is joining the Onassis ONX Fellowship in New York, alongside artists including Josh Kline, Marco Brambilla, Nancy Baker Cahill and Sarah Friend. Every project starts with her own photographs: Mythic Latent Glitches (2022), 333 works on Tezos, began with fog over the forest near her parents' house outside Vilnius, a StyleGAN model trained on hundreds of her images. A Life Passed By (2025), a Lumen Prize finalist, is trained on her grandparents' 8mm films and Soviet era negatives. "The AI becomes not a historian but a dreamer."
Ahead: today at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat open Embrace Angels, My Chatbot's Body with a talk and panel, through Oct 31: a 9-meter catwalk, two semi-automated robot arms and a conversational robot, staging the embrace as a test of trust between bodies and machines.
"Can humans and robots truly embrace each other? Who is responsible?"
And a history: on March 31, 1995, Dia Center for the Arts in New York launched its first website and, the same day, its first artist commission for the web: Fantastic Prayers, by writer Constance DeJong, artist Tony Oursler and composer Stephen Vitiello.
Built for Netscape 1.0 and 1.1 in the dial-up era, it listed every file size (Swan 406K, Dream 199K). "All images and icons are links," the title page explained. Director Michael Govan wrote that it "slid perfectly onto the electronic field of the Web." It opened Artist Web Projects, a series that passed its 25th year in 2020, when nearly half of it had to be rebuilt in HTML5 after Flash died.