Artbit

Artbit feat. Techspressionist - Tommy Mintz

Moderator: Davo Bradley with Colin Goldberg and Techspressionists

Artbit podcast produced by Giovanna Sun

In this episode, NYC-based photographer and CUNY Assistant professor Tommy Mintz shares his algorithmically crafted images.

The Automated Digital Photo Collage (ADPC) is an algorithm for creating artwork.

ADPC runs on a Raspberry Pi computer or Mac and a variety of cameras and screens or projectors. The software is a Python program, and it is freely available on github.

June 17, 2021 - Tommy Mintz grew up in NYC's West Village in the 1980s and 90s. Tommy now lives in Chelsea with his wife, kids and cats and is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at CUNY Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. He earned an MFA from Queens College in 2005 and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1999. He has exhibited in galleries locally, nationally and internationally. Mintz is an urbanist of the Jane Jacobs school of thought. Through his work, he seeks to engage in a conversation about how Jacobs’ ideas, of what makes a vibrant urban landscape, are important to consider in this moment of large-scale neighborhood change, currently most visible in massive construction projects and new sidewalk dining spaces.  One of the unique aspects of Mintz’s photographic work revolves around his creation, known as The Automated Digital Photo Collage. The ADPC is an algorithm for creating a time-lapse collage. It compares a sequence of photographs, pixel by pixel, for areas of change. Pixel areas that are detected as different are layered on top in the image. Layering areas of its own choosing, the ADPC creates a decidedly nonhuman view, which intrigues with its logic and strange algorithmic humor. The ADPC echoes our human struggle to remember during this moment in the inception of digital augmentation. The familiar gaps parallel our own fragmented perceptions. Conceptualized in 2004, as a public installation in a bus shelter, the ADPC is written in the Python programming language and was first exhibited at the Hudson Guild gallery in 2013 where it ran on Raspberry Pi computers and standard webcams, generating low resolution, live, interactive collages of gallery visitors.

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Hosted by Davo Bradley with Colin Goldberg and techspressionists

My name is Giovanna. I am the producer of Artbit. In this episode, our Techspressionist salon virtual meeting, we have a conversation bi-weekly.

Techspressionism is introduced as a new art-historical term to describe fine artists using digital technology to convey subjective, emotional content.

A core group of artists have begun working together to develop momentum for the adoption of the term Techspressionism through the planning of an international juried exhibition to be followed by a physical exhibition in 2022. We meet biweekly at our Techspressionist Salon artist meetups on Zoom to discuss art and technology.

Andrea Bonaceto shares his AI experience with Sophie robot and showcases his gallery on Niftygateway. Andrea just closed the auction at 79000. He also answered questions about how an artist can collaborate with artificial intelligence.

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About me:

Giovanna Sun’s art journey

https://youtu.be/huSJfGwyCK4

My OpenSea NFT collection:

https://opensea.io/dubwoman

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https://nft-home-shop.com

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https://anchor.fm/artbit-club

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Interview: Giovanna Sun 

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All episodes are for education purposes only, not financial, legal advice.

About me:

Giovanna Sun’s art journey

https://youtu.be/huSJfGwyCK4

My OpenSea NFT collection:

https://opensea.io/dubwoman

NFT Home Shop

https://nft-home-shop.com

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/dubwoman

https://www.youtube.com/giovannasun

Artbit YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJDRPpAYybl_xyo4K27F6g

Artbit podcast:

https://anchor.fm/artbit-club

More information:

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Moderator: Heidi Russell

We interviewed Anne Spalter and learned knowledge about AI-generated images, algorithms, and NFT.

In this session, we learned AI and NFT art from an established artist, Anne Spalter.

Anne Spalter shared her technic and tokenized art in the video. She is one of the artists featured by SuperRare, an NFT art marketplace focus on rarely seen art and showcase selected artists and works.

About Anne Spalter

Digital mixed-media artist Anne Spalter is an academic pioneer who founded the original digital fine arts programs at Brown University and The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the 1990s and authored the internationally taught textbook, The Computer in the Visual Arts (Addison-Wesley, 1999).

(https://annespalter.com/about/)

Hosted by Giovanna Sun, Heidi Russell

Speaker and presented by Anne Spalter

https://youtu.be/ENFD7WEq6Nw

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About me:

Giovanna Sun’s art journey

https://youtu.be/huSJfGwyCK4

My OpenSea NFT collection:

https://opensea.io/dubwoman

NFT Home Shop

https://nft-home-shop.com

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/dubwoman

https://www.youtube.com/giovannasun

Artbit YouTube

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Artbit podcast:

https://anchor.fm/artbit-club

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Contact: [email protected]