A painter made of code.
Jake Eaton (@jkeatn), on staff at Anthropic (@AnthropicAI), shared paintings he has spent weeks making with Claude Fable 5.2, which Anthropic introduced yesterday. To answer the critique that earlier AI paintings only emulated real art, he asks the model to invent artist personas, each with a backstory and a style roughly identifiable in time. Every painting is a Python program, some one to two thousand lines long, that places each stroke through a simulated paint engine with different bristles. Most take a few thousand strokes. No image model is used, and nothing is rendered or traced in advance.
Five years of HUMAN ONE.
Last night Beeple (@beeple) marked five years since HUMAN ONE began. Christie's (@ChristiesInc) sold the kinetic sculpture on Nov 9, 2021 for $28.9 million: four video screens in an 87-inch polished aluminum case, paired with an NFT, both of which he can update remotely. Since then its explorer has moved through seven chapters, shown at Castello di Rivoli, M+, Crystal Bridges, the Deji Art Museum, the Mori Art Museum (@mori_art_museum) and NODE in Palo Alto. The latest, Pre-Human Feedback, asks how we shape the machines we train while they shape us.
A mixtape for the museum.
HEK Basel and the Tezos Foundation (@TezosFoundation) have named Tina Rivers Ryan (@TinaRiversRyan) curator of the second virtual exhibition in their 2026 partnership, per Art on Tezos (@artontezos_). Apocalyptic Wallpaper, Vol. 1 opens Dec 14 and works like a mixtape: artists who use digital tools to make audiovisual experiences, from generative music videos to live algorave performances and virtual nightclubs. A kiosk in the HEK lobby will show it on site as well as online, with accompanying NFTs on objkt (@objktcom) and a virtual opening tour with Ryan. Artists will be announced in coming weeks.
Between the prompts in Lahore.
The first VXR Festival, Pakistan's virtual and extended reality festival, opened Sunday to a full house at Alliance Française de Lahore, Dawn reports. Titled Between the Prompts // V.1 and curated by Dr Najamul Assar and Sarah Rajper, it brings together 70 artists from Pakistan, Spain, France, Canada, the United States and beyond, with support from the Institut français and in collaboration with UNESCO (@UNESCO). It continues in Lahore through Nov 12, then runs in Islamabad Nov 13 to 15.
New on http://catalogue.gallery: a video lab anyone could use.
In July 1971, Ralph Hocking opened the Experimental Television Center in Binghamton, New York, where anyone could borrow video gear. Within a year Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe were building a Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer on site, and one unit stayed so visiting artists could use it free of charge. In 1972 the Everson Museum of Art showed about 40 tapes from the Center. After a move to Owego in 1979, the residency hosted more than 1,500 artists, among them Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Bill Viola and Barbara Hammer, until it closed in 2011. Its tapes and papers went to Cornell's (@Cornell) Rose Goldsen Archive.