A new study reveals what goes on in the brain when a person embarks on a musical collaboration project.
— Read on neurosciencenews.com/music-collaberation-brain-18607/amp/
An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300. It’s Made Literally of Nothing | Artnet News
To be fair, the artist might disagree on conceptual grounds. For Garau, the artwork, titled Io Sono (which translates to “I am”), finds form in its own nothingness. “The vacuum is nothing more than a space full of energy, and even if we empty it and there is nothing left, according to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, that nothing has a weight,” he told the Spanish news outlet Diario AS. “Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.”
— Read on news.artnet.com/art-world/italian-artist-auctioned-off-invisible-sculpture-18300-literally-made-nothing-1976181/amp-page
“I Wanted to Be on Fire.” On the Connection Between Art and Self-Destruction ‹ Literary Hub
But is there a Faustian choice? Good art and a kind of fragility do often go hand-in-hand—but then, so do bad art and fragility, and indeed no art and fragility. It might be only confirmation bias that makes us notice the people who suffer for their creativity—or maybe the fact that they do (let’s admit it) make a better story.
— Read on lithub.com/i-wanted-to-be-on-fire-on-the-connection-between-art-and-self-destruction/
Human-like robot creates creepy self-portraits | Live Science
“These images are meant to unsettle,” Aidan Meller, the gallery owner behind the creation of Ai-Da, told The Guardian. “They are meant to raise questions about where we are going. What is our human role if so much can be replicated through technology?”
— Read on www.livescience.com/amp/robot-artist-self-portraits.html
10 Tips To Leverage Neon Lights for Stellar Portraiture | PetaPixel
Neon signs give off a unique light, but the same properties that make them look magical can also make them difficult to photograph.
— Read on petapixel.com/2021/05/14/10-tips-to-leverage-neon-lights-for-stellar-portraiture/
The Paris Review – Everything Writes Itself: An Interview with Black Thought – The Paris Review
“I got to see how gangstas played at such an early age. What my father was into sent him to his early grave. Then mom started chasing that base like Willie Mays … Trouble was my ball and chain.” And then, after a pregnant pause—“Black Thought is what that all became.”
— Read on www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/04/29/everything-writes-itself-an-interview-with-black-thought/
NFTs, explained: what they are, and why they’re suddenly worth millions – The Verge
What’s worth picking up at the NFT supermarket?
NFTs can really be anything digital (such as drawings, music, your brain downloaded and turned into an AI), but a lot of the current excitement is around using the tech to sell digital art.
— Read on www.theverge.com/platform/amp/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq
In Praise of Bitcoin | Epsilon Theory
Bitcoin is itself an NFT, a unique digital art work instantiated on a blockchain. It’s the most valuable NFT in the world. I don’t mean a Bitcoin, obviously that’s a fungible thing. I mean THE Bitcoin … the 21 million Bitcoins that make up the Bitcoin Project. The notion that Bitcoin would ever “go to zero” is ludicrous. Good art is always worth something. But how do we measure that something … how do we put a price on the value of good art at this particular moment in time? It’s a REALLY tough question.
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