Koyaanisqatsi becomes a room that watches you back.
On Nov 21, Pérez Art Museum Miami (@pamm) and Onassis ONX open Techno Firma by John Fitzgerald and Godfrey Reggio, the museum's first artist-driven AI exhibition. A custom machine learning model trained on decades of Reggio's film negatives sets oceans and forests colliding with highways, factory lines and rocket launches across a monumental multi-screen obelisk. Computer vision reads the crowd: as visitors gather, the imagery speeds up and fractures, then collapses into darkness with Reggio's voice. It is the third iteration of The Vivid Unknown, first shown at BAM (@BAM_Brooklyn) in 2025.
Forty years of letting nature paint.
From Nov 7 to 22, Naoko Tosa (@Shintoism) shows Generative Beings in the Hall of Light at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, free. It runs from An Expression (1985), in the collection of MoMA (@MuseumModernArt), to the new Tosa Rinpa: Spirit Resonance series, where sound, vibration, air, gravity and fluid motion make forms caught by high-speed cameras, then carried into moving image, gold-ground works, folding screens and glass. At a moment when "generation" means generative AI, the show offers a longer history.
An AI that leads the workshop.
Last night in Houston, Rashaad Newsome (@RashaadNewsome) brought Assembly, the documentary that follows his solo show at Park Avenue Armory (@ParkAveArmory), to The DeLUXE Theater for a screening. Its co-star is Being, the AI he built himself, first with GPT-Neo after a 2019 LACMA (@LACMA) Art + Technology Lab grant, then during a residency at Stanford (@Stanford), trained mainly on the writing of bell hooks, now including unpublished papers from the bell hooks Institute (@bellhooksinst). In the film Being narrates, answers its subjects and opens each session with a voguing lesson. "Rather than sitting on the side, I'm going to get in the game," Newsome says.
New on http://catalogue.gallery: a last spring in Auvers.
Painted in May 1890, weeks before Van Gogh died, Châtaigniers en fleurs has not been shown publicly since the Guggenheim (@Guggenheim) in 1964. On Nov 18 it leads Sotheby's (@Sothebys) 12-painting Blaquier-Arrieta evening sale in New York, estimated around $180 million, well above the artist's $117.2 million record. All 12 works are on view at 945 Madison Avenue from Nov 7, free with a timed reservation.
And a history: in September 1970, visitors to Philips' (@Philips) Evoluon museum in Eindhoven met the Senster, Edward Ihnatowicz's 4 meter steel creature with a giraffe-like neck.
Microphones and Doppler radar in its head let it lean toward quiet voices and recoil from shouts, run by a 16-bit computer with 8k of memory. It is considered the first robotic sculpture controlled by a digital computer. Dismantled in 1974, it stood outside a welding firm's office in Zeeland for over 40 years until AGH University of Krakow (@AGH_Krakow) revived it, and it returned for REBOOT at Nieuwe Instituut (@NieuweInstituut) in 2023.