Hacker News with Generative AI: Art

Everything is Ghibli (carly.substack.com)
OpenAI unleashed its native image generation in ChatGPT on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, every social feed was drowning in Studio Ghibli-style portraits. (Linkedin, check back next week.) What happened—and why—is another signal of where AI, art, and our attention are headed.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Art, Social Media

187 points by ghuntley 1 day ago | 302 comments

The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden (goto80.com)
The demoscene has become a national UNESCO-heritage in Sweden, thanks to an application that Ziphoid and me did last year.

Culture, Sweden, Computer Graphics, Art, History

628 points by robin_reala 2 days ago | 84 comments

A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports (openculture.com)

Music, Art, Experimental Music

5 points by vinhnx 3 days ago | 0 comments

OpenAI's Ghibli frenzy took a dark turn real fast (businessinsider.com)
From meme madness to copyright concerns, the release of OpenAI's new image generator this week has been nothing short of dramatic.

Generative AI, OpenAI, Copyright, Memes, Art

7 points by bentobean 5 days ago | 2 comments

Pompidou Center – The pioneering building that scandalised Paris (bbc.com)
The daring, radical Pompidou Centre was derided by many when its design was first unveiled – yet it has continued to influence the architecture of public buildings ever since. As the building approaches a major renovation, its co-creator Renzo Piano recalls the furore.

Architecture, History, France, Art, Design

3 points by pseudolus 5 days ago | 1 comments

Welcome to the Semantic Apocalypse (theintrinsicperspective.com)
An awful personal prophecy is coming true. Way back in 2019, when AI was still a relatively niche topic, and only the primitive GPT-2 had been released, I predicted the technology would usher in a “semantic apocalypse” wherein art and language were drained of meaning. In fact, it was the first essay ever posted here on The Intrinsic Perspective.

Artificial Intelligence, Language, Art, Prophecy

9 points by greg_V 5 days ago | 2 comments

Nature of Code (natureofcode.com)
Hi! Welcome! You can read the whole book here, thank you Creative Commons!

Programming, Creative Commons, Computer Science, Art

15 points by Tomte 5 days ago | 0 comments

Things You Must Know About Tamara de Lempicka (dailyartmagazine.com)
Tamara de Lempicka was many things: a successful artist, a society darling, and an expat. She knew how to create interest in herself and capitalize on it. She was an artist and a celebrity at the same time. You may say she was way ahead of her times, as her fame brings to mind that of Madonna or Lady Gaga. Her art and her public persona intertwined, staying consistently connected.

Art, Biography, History, Celebrity

7 points by aureliusm 6 days ago | 0 comments

OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns (techcrunch.com)
It’s only been a day since ChatGPT’s new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away.”

Generative AI, Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Art

11 points by marban 6 days ago | 0 comments

Source code art in the Rivulet language (github.com/rottytooth)
Rivulet is a programming language of flowing strands, written in semigraphic characters. A strand is not pictographic: its flow does not simulate computation. There are four kinds of strands, each with their own symbolism and grammatical rules. Together, they form glyphs, tightly-packed blocks of code whose strands execute together.

Programming Languages, Art, Creative Projects

167 points by cranbor 6 days ago | 29 comments

Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019) (medium.com)
This is a quick report explaining what I have been doing with some research on what I started to call ‘Piranesi’s perspective trick’. In the past I would have written this up as an academic paper, that may happen at some point, but not anytime soon.

Perspective, Art, Research

352 points by amatheus 6 days ago | 87 comments

The theft and recovery of a grisaille by Anthony Van Dyck (1599–1641) (britishartjournal.co.uk)
In July 1951 Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg (Pl 1) was stolen from Boughton House, Northamptonshire.

Art, History, Theft, Museums

9 points by PaulHoule 6 days ago | 1 comments

Escher's Art and Computer Science (replicated.wiki)
While on a small vacation in the Hague I had a blissful chance to visit the Escher’s museum. It is now hosted in an actual royal palace which many Europeans may find surprisingly modest. Maurits Cornelius Escher was a 1940x Dutch graphic artist known for his math-rich works.

Art, Computer Science, Mathematics

19 points by gritzko 7 days ago | 0 comments

Window cleaner in quest to confirm priceless Shakespeare portrait (bbc.com)
Window cleaner Steven Wadlow has spent more than a decade trying to prove he is in possession of a priceless, authentic Shakespeare portrait.

Art, History, Mystery, Shakespeare

16 points by rmason 7 days ago | 17 comments

The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going to Miss Almost Everything (2011) (npr.org)
The vast majority of the world's books, music, films, television and art, you will never see. It's just numbers.

Culture, Media, Art, Technology, Society

10 points by bumbledraven 7 days ago | 1 comments

Plato: Organist to the Beasts (2022) (willbuckingham.com)
It’s a curious image. The philosopher Plato, dressed in a turban and a sash, sits before a pipe organ and plays sweet tunes. Meanwhile, around him lies a catatonic tribe of lions, tigers, antelopes, leopards, deer, rhinos, cranes, phoenixes and other beasts. What’s going on here? Are these animals sleeping? Are they dead? What is Plato up to?

Art, Philosophy, Humor, Animals

10 points by marginalia_nu 8 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: I built a command line ASCII logo SVG generator for laser cutting (github.com/ykhli)
A command-line tool for creating ASCII text art and converting it to SVG logos.

SVG, Laser Cutting, Art, Software

13 points by ykhli 8 days ago | 0 comments

Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka's Reverse Paintings (Ca. 1920s) (publicdomainreview.org)
Michalina Janoszanka (1889–1952) is an artist better known for her role on the other side of the canvas, as the muse and mentee of famed Polish painter Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929).

Art, Painting, History, Poland

66 points by prismatic 13 days ago | 6 comments

'The Maverick's Museum' Review: Albert Barnes and the Art of Collecting (wsj.com)
His talent for pharmaceutical chemistry made him rich. His bold taste in paintings created the foundation for America’s most personal art museum.

Art, Museums, Biography, History

15 points by Caiero 15 days ago | 7 comments

Tatsuo Horiuchi, 77-Year-Old Artist 'Paints' Japanese Landscapes with Excel (2017) (thisiscolossal.com)
For over 15 years, Japanese artist Tatsuo Horiuchi has rendered the subtle details of mountains, cherry blossoms, and dense forests with the most unlikely tool: Microsoft Excel.

Art, Technology, Japan

6 points by noja 16 days ago | 0 comments

Imagining the Dinosaurs: How art, science combined to bring a lost world to life (worldhistory.substack.com)
How art and science combined to bring a lost world to life

Dinosaurs, Art, History, Paleontology, Science

16 points by crescit_eundo 17 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Psychedelic animation generator; (p)art of your next trip (collidingscopes.github.io)
Create psychedelic art using liquid motion, distortion, shadows and light. This tool is free, and works in real-time in the browser.

Creative Projects, Art, Artificial Intelligence, Web Development

166 points by getToTheChopin 19 days ago | 61 comments

Chris Moore, illustrator for classic sci-fi books, has died (nytimes.com)
Chris Moore, a British artist who conjured fantastical worlds with high-sheen covers for books by science-fiction masters like Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke and Alfred Bester, and who lent his artistry to albums by Rod Stewart and Fleetwood Mac, died on Feb. 7 at his home in Charmouth, on the southwestern coast of England. He was 77.

Science Fiction, Illustration, Art, Obituaries

51 points by donohoe 20 days ago | 8 comments

Somehow, I don't feel comfortable (momoyotorimitsu.com)
I originally created this piece for gallery show in Paris in 2000. The size was planned exactly for this gallery; I measured the height of the ceiling, and made these bunnies oversized on purpose, so they seem cramped, and trapped between the ceiling and the floor.

Art, Installation Art, Sculpture

52 points by memhole 21 days ago | 4 comments

Fridgeditions Demo "Children's Art the World Can Enjoy" (fridgeditions.com)
Immortalize your child's masterpieces on-chain, ensuring their creativity lasts beyond the fleeting years of childhood. Plus, it's nice having art in your pocket.

Art, NFTs, Children, Technology

6 points by Kinchasa 21 days ago | 4 comments

Art Attack (wikipedia.org)
Art Attack is a British children's television programme revolving around art, originally hosted by Neil Buchanan on CITV from 1990 to 2007, and subsequently hosted by Lloyd Warbey on Disney Junior from 2012 to 2015.

Children's Television, Art, United Kingdom

6 points by tosh 22 days ago | 1 comments

Vilhelm Hammershøi: the eminence in greys (richardmorris.org)
Thirty years ago, it wasn’t easy tracking down Vilhelm Hammershøi. Many of his paintings remained in private hands and unless you went to Copenhagen, you were unlikely to come across more than a couple hanging together. Now, a painter who was bypassed and undervalued for several decades is everywhere and value of his work has sky-rocketed. Over the last six years, auction prices for his paintings have exceeded £4 million ($5 million) on multiple occasions.

Art, Painting, Auction, Copenhagen

78 points by highway-trees 23 days ago | 5 comments

AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance (wired.com)
For 35 years, amateur and professional cryptographers have tried to crack the code on Kryptos, a majestic sculpture that sits behind CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

Cryptography, Art, Artificial Intelligence

48 points by guax 25 days ago | 46 comments

Chatbots Convinced Idiots They Cracked the Code on a Sculpture in CIA's Backyard (gizmodo.com)
Near the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there is a sculpture known as Kryptos. It has been there since 1990 and contains four secret codes—three of which have been solved. The final one has gone 35 years without being decrypted. And, according to a report from Wired, the sculptor responsible wants everyone to know that you are not solving the damn thing with a chatbot.