VIDEO - AI & The Arts, Curation - Host Geoff Davis

FULL TRANSCRIPT with online Chat and Logs

About the Speakers

Geoff Davis is a pioneering generative artist, founder of Micro Arts Group (1984) and the annual AI Creative Anthology (2023). His early AI 'Story Generator' (1985) has been exhibited internationally. He is a researcher at University of the Arts, London and a PEN-published author.

Mario Klingemann is best known for his work involving neural networks, code, and algorithms. His popular system ‘Botto’ launched a new version in London recently.

Kalen Iwamoto is a conceptual writer and artist, co-founder of verseVerse. Her recent work includes The Writing On The Wall.

David Uption CAS ran the online operations. Thanks to BCS.

@microartsgroup @quasimondo @KalenIwamoto @geoffdavisuk

VIDEO - AI & The Arts, Curation - Host Geoff Davis

FULL TRANSCRIPT with online Chat and Logs

IMAGE CREDITS

Miniscriber - Kalen Iwamoto
Botto, Algorhythmic Evolution - Mario Klingemann
Myriad (Tulips) - Anna Ridler
Botto, Algorhythmic Evolution - Mario Klingemann
HOWL.camera - theVERSEverse website
Shoggoth meme (from H P Lovecraft story)
Reimagine Tomorrow 1954-2024, AI Biennale, Essen, Germany 2024
6 x Abstracts AI art - Geoff Davis (still #1)
7080 AI art - Geoff Davis (still #2)
Visualisation - Epoch AI
See also
Singularity Hub
Generative Art & Open Source - Quansight
Junk Machine - ClownVamp
Blank Spaces - Margaret Murphy
Art many files screen - Geoff Davis
Holly+ - Holly Herndon & Mat Drythurst
Is This What You Want AI silent protest record - Various Artists
Job Loss Tsunami AI Art - Geoff Davis
Community Tsunami AI Art - Geoff Davis
ArtBlocks - generative art
Further Images - Mario Klingeman and Kalen Iwamoto
Discussion: David Upton, Genetic Moo, Val Ravaglia, Patrick Lichty.

REFERENCES

Mario and Kalen AI Talk June 2025

Mario Klingemann @quasimondo
https://quasimondo.com/
Botto is “a decentralised autonomous artist” – 2021
https://botto.com/
Botto's ALGORITHMIC EVOLUTION at Verse, London – 2025.
https://botto.com/gallery
22 winning algorithms that became Botto's first code art collection, selected by the Botto process from over 6,500 total algorithms
https://verse.works/journal/bottos-p5js-study-an-evolving-organism
https://verse.works/journal/bottos-p5js-study-an-evolving-organism
DQGAN
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15597
CLIP
Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training, multimodal AI model by OpenAI.
A.I.C.C.A. (Artificially Intelligent Critical Canine) is a robotic dog able to explore spaces such as galleries, museums or art fairs, then produce and defecate short texts on the works it encounters.
https://aicca.me/
Kalen Iwamoto x Julien Silvano (Wen New Atelier)
@kaleniwamoto
Writing on the Wall – 2025
https://kalen-iwamoto.com/portfolio/the-writing-on-the-wall/
Miniscriber – 2025.
https://kalen-iwamoto.com/portfolio/miniscriber/
https://wennew-atelier.xyz/
Best book for finding out about AI in 2025 and the future.
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025, Dwarkesh Patel with Gavin Leech, Stripe Press
https://press.stripe.com/scaling
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst
https://herndondryhurst.studio/
Has links to the book “All Media is Training Data” (Serpentine, 2024)
Holly+
https://holly.plus/
Job losses due to AI
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, who make Claude AI.
https://technologymagazine.com/articles/white-collar-bloodbath-anthropic-warns-of-ai-job-losses
Comment – it will be worse
https://www.inc.com/adam-hanft/anthropic-ceo-is-wrong-about-job-loss-to-ai-it-will-be-worse-than-he-says/91197485
Curationism – How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else – David Balzer (Pluto, 2015)
“Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? Inside the art world, the curator reigns supreme"
https://www.plutobooks.com/9781783713196/curationism/
What is digital curation? Kaloh Magazine, 2023
“Artists are burned out from being marketing machines.”
https://www.kaloh.xyz/p/are-these-the-new-digital-art-rockstars
AI - intelligent or pattern matching?
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/seven-replies-to-the-viral-apple
This article has links to the recent Apple paper and responses.
Computer Arts Society
https://computer-arts-society.com/
Geoff Davis – AI Creative Anthology (available on CAS) – 2023 & Micro Arts Group – 1984
https://geoffdavis.org

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