Art & Technology

Artists, writers, performers and their advocates call on US Congress to ban companies from copyrighting AI-generated art

The AI Day of Action, scheduled for 2 October, comes as US officials consider whether and how to regulate material generated by artificial intelligence

Elvis returns to Las Vegas in Marco Brambilla’s new video for the Sphere, created with AI

The King reclaims his throne in an immersive video that will play during U2’s concerts at the city’s new $2.3bn entertainment complex

Chimeric creature descends on the Whitney Museum in new augmented reality commission

Nancy Baker Cahill’s augmented-reality work explores the climate crisis and interdependence between humans and nature

Mexico’s Sfer Ik launches $100,000 award to support creation of AI art project

The Tulum-based art space is putting out an open call, with the winner receiving cash and a two-month residency

Pulling at loose Threads: should the art world sign up to the latest social media app?

Art world figures are forging new personalities on the new 'Twitter clone' from Meta

TikTok art star’s cross-over moment

UTA Artist Space, the visual art branch of Hollywood’s United Talent Agency, is opening a New York pop-up with a solo show by viral artist Devon Rodriguez

What the latest US court ruling means for AI-generated art’s copyright status

A judge said the absence of a “guiding human hand” disqualified the AI-generated image from copyright protection, but other generative art may still qualify

Venture capital and other tech-industry funding methods come to the art world

There is more variety than ever in how and why art is funded and the Silicon Valley models have arrived

Tulip mania, Brexit and AI: Mat Collishaw takes on Kew Gardens this autumn

The artist marries nature and technology in the ambitious new exhibition

Leonardo's $450m Salvator Mundi returns as an NFT

The Mona Lisa and Van Gogh’s Starry Night have also been released as digital assets

New augmented reality app turns objects at the Metropolitan Museum into digital gaming accessories

The app, Replica, is a partnership with Verizon that lets visitors deploy works from the museum’s collection in the popular game Roblox

New space art project aims to put thousands of works onto the surface of the moon

The so-called Lunar Codex, the brainchild of a scientist-turned-science fiction author, will send a trove of human cultural material to the moon

$29m Beeple sculpture goes on display at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

The artwork is being shown in the US for the first time since Swiss venture capitalist Ryan Zurrer bought it at a New York auction 2021

Is AI generating an ‘averaged’, one-sided, view of art history?

Artists are getting creative to counter visual language being skewed by image-generating apps that average out scraped stock photos and social media files into “mean images”

AI might now be powerful enough to be ‘using’ artists

It is time to think about the extent to which technology itself has power over us, independent of people in tech companies

'Go outside and protect what already exists': AI-generated dawn chorus of songbirds has a sinister edge

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's immersive collaboration with Superblue highlights declining numbers of songbirds

Blockchain platforms promise resale royalties and provenance tracking for physical artworks

After NFT boom, blockchain technology is increasingly being used to help solve art industry's practical problems

Pioneering AI artist wins inaugural $100,000 award from New York's Guggenheim and LG

Stephanie Dinkins wins prize that celebrates excellence in works at the intersection of art and technology

From Frank Stella to the quilters of Gee's Bend: how Artists Rights Society is working in the world of NFTs

An NFT drop with Stella was the debut for ARS's digital platform, Arsnl. Now it brings bold patterns to the blockchain with a show of NFTs generated by the coder artist Anna Lucia working with the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, Alabama

New US copyright rules protect only AI art with ‘human authorship’

The US Copyright Office has eased its stance in new guidelines, and a decision on a comic book created using artificial intelligence

Royally great crowd-sourcing: more than 11,000 people submit drawings to create a digital portrait of King Charles III

Christie's marks coronation by auctioning portrait in aid of BBC Children in Need and holding exhibitions of Shakespeare's First Folio and the work of Royal Drawing School alumni

Louis Jebb. with additional reporting by Anna Brady

New York, London, Los Angeles, Dubai, Linz ... Which city has the best digital art?

With the power to show works simultaneously in different countries, digital art does not really need to "be" anywhere. But where it is being created, exhibited and funded has a deep impact on how the work is made

Art world AI-nxiety: what is artificial intelligence and how are artists using it?

Plus, the AI photography scandal at the Sony World Photography Awards

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Press officers move over: Gagosian employs ChatGPT to announce new exhibition

The artificial intelligence chat bot was credited with creating the text for Alex Israel's show in Rome

Haroon Mirza and Mat Collishaw launch NFT projects in the wake of Ethereum’s eco-upgrade

The switch to a more sustainable blockchain system is encouraging artists to experiment with the collaborative potential of NFTs

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Artist Nancy Baker Cahill projects exploding uterus atop the US Supreme Court

The artist’s augmented-reality artwork addresses the evisceration of abortion rights in the US

FBI launches app to help identify stolen art

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made its Nation Stolen Art File, most commonly used by law enforcement, available on mobile to the public

The revolution may be randomised: new Damien Hirst project lets buyers generate their own 'Spin' NFTs

The British artist's latest venture, a tech-heavy development of the Spin Paintings launched in 1992, touches all the tech buzzwords as collectors order one-off NFTs from a dashboard menu