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
Artist Refik Anadol brings climate crisis to a scorching Basel with AI-generated glacier installation
Glacier Dreams is being projected on the façade of Theater Basel this week
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
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
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
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 dawn of blockchain? CryptoPunks evangelist Noah Davis on why the Centre Pompidou NFT show is a game-changer
Davis oversaw $69m Beeple NFT sale at Christie’s in 2021
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