TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2022

When people think of NFTs, the first use case most of them likely think of is visual art. From Beeple’s $69 million sale of a digital collage at Christie’s to the Bored Apes Yacht Club collection, visual art has seemed to be most prominent use case for NFTs due to close similarities with traditional fine art investing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

And, for a museum that is presenting contemporary art -- anything that helps us demystify the artistic process and better understand the art is, in my opinion, a good thing. This Walker Blog let's us peer into the inner workings of the art institution. it allows the public to see what goes into making an art center.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Participants may improve their painting abilities, try their hand at some knitting, or do whatever other sort of art they like without having to leave the comfort of their own home. Best yet, you could even offer some of the art produced in the class as auction items during your next fundraiser. 7) Shopping. 9) Movie screenings.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The redesigned Media Player app will support both audio and video, and it includes a design that better matches Windows 11’s UI improvements. “At The new artist imagery in Media Player. Microsoft has created a new Media Player app for Windows 11, and it’s beginning to test the app with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel today.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Texas A&M University has brought AR/VR production into its celebrated Visualization program , letting students learn to build state-of-the-art virtual productions before they leave college. The businesses in Fast Company s Most Innovative Companies in AR/VR reflect that trend.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The legal spats between artists and the companies training AI on their artwork show no sign of abating. Generative AI models “learn” to create art, code and more by “training” on sample images and text, usually scraped indiscriminately from the web. By late April, that figure had eclipsed 1 billion.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

It’s the $199 picture frame / wall art speaker that The Verge exclusively reported on earlier this year and Ikea later prematurely posted on its website. The front art can be removed, revealing the speaker drivers underneath, and swapped out for other colors and designs. The art print can be swapped for other styles.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

I've included links to each audio interview, as well to transcripts (when they're available). Favianna Rodriguez Activist printmaker and digital artist. Naomi Natale Founding Artist, One Million Bones. You can listen to all of the interviews, plus 55 more conversations with Big Visionaries on iTunes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Called Stable Diffusion XL, or SDXL , the new system — which is available in beta through DreamStudio, Stability AI’s generative art tool — improves upon the original in key ways. SDXL is supposedly better at generating text, too, a task that’s historically thrown generative AI art models for a loop.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. In any case, Stability AI hasn’t shied away from controversy historically.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? But for museum and art wonks, it could be.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. And it ended with this: No wonder it [MOMA] ends up showing shallow, label-dependent art rather than work that offers deeper, more contradictory encounters. The review was harsh.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The audio quality is on point, with lossless streaming available at no charge, and the UI is easy-to-navigate. Many artist pages include playlists of deep cuts, essential hits and more. Apple Music is a fine little streaming platform. To that end, the app places a heavy emphasis on curation.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The audio quality is on point, with lossless streaming available at no charge, and the UI is easy-to-navigate. Many artist pages include playlists of deep cuts, essential hits and more. Apple Music is a fine little streaming platform. To that end, the app places a heavy emphasis on curation.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In 2024, Google released Gemini Ultra, a state-of-the-art foundation model that requires 50 billion petaflops. Source: blog.bytebytego.com) Going Multimodal Foundation models have also expanded to process and generate multiple data types, or modalities, such as text, images, audio and video. Trained on 355,000 videos and 2.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

We have a couple of projects going on at the Walker Art Center that are audio based. We started off wanting to make audio tours freely available to all of our patrons and we were unhappy with most of our commercial options. Art on Call. Art on Call Homepage. So we opted for cell phones.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Already, the website has a wide variety of users like the Museum of Modern Art , comedy host Alexis Gay , the Abolitionist Teaching Network , activist Nupol Kiazolu , and a Malaysian virtual dance club. But Yang thinks that the crypto world has a communications problem. “That world does not speak culture,” she told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

He added that the pandemic “provided a boost to multimedia creation and the demand for scalable audio content was growing rapidly.”. Murf, on the other hand, lets users generate “human-like” voiceovers without needing to buy recording equipment or hire a voice artist. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

My first job in nonprofit and technology was as community manager for an online network of artists called ArtsWire in 1993 before the Web. The online interaction design was patterned after the Well - it was described as a WELL for artists. I've been Lewis Hyde fan ever since. For an amusing preview of the kind of analysis I???

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

Different artists use the plants in different ways, but everyone I spoke to was pretty clear that the plants are not actually directly making music. Joe Patitucci, the CEO of Data Garden, the company that produces PlantWave, is a musician and artist himself. I wanted to extend my research about [using] everyday sound,” he says.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

The company is launching a messaging app that offers a combination of video calling as well as asynchronous video and audio messaging, in an ad-free, privacy-focused experience with a number of bells and whistles, including artistic filters and real-time transcription and translation features.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Museum visitors can use the in-app camera to photograph individual works of art which the app recognizes to serve up information about the piece, comments from past visitors, and for some works, audio orientations from the artist. MoMa by the Museum of Modern Art.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 2, 2011

We just opened new exhibitions at The Museum of Art & History , including one on woodworking that includes QR codes. When I visited one contemporary art museum last year, this mystery took on an almost poetic scale. Sometimes, I'd scan a code and get a 10-min video of the artist working on a piece.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Melissa Schilling , writer and photographer for Project Hope Art. The success of Project Hope Art's blog has come from understanding what their audience wants and how to move them to action. Project Hope Art engages its supporters to raise funds to help children affected by the earthquake that devastated Haiti.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

Everything Is In Service of the Art: The met has over 70 staff members on its digital team. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art. Everything we do is in service of the art. Everything we do is in service of the art. The technology is an overlay to get more attention for the art.”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. We had planned on having it be video.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2010

. ** One of the things on my new moon goal list is to put together a class about The Art of Blogging: Creating Juicy Content for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. How do you learn best: e-book, phone/teleclass, video, audio/mp3, webinar, discussion? Format: virtual or in-person?

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For convenience, you can use Facebook or Instagram live as well, although the quality of both video and audio might be limited. TUTORING ART. Tutoring Art can even host Virtual Painting Fundraisers & Instructionals on your organization’s behalf. speaker events & Rallies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. Here's a few I played with from 1992-2002 during my time working with NYFA/Arts Wire. Is "reporter" the right role? Electronic Bulletin Board Sysop.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. Why did you choose this format instead of video? So what did you do next?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

s experiment and examples in Brian Russell from Audio Activism's recent presentation. Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process. Walker Art Center New Media Blog Interview with New Media Designer Community Programs Blog Interview with community program. Artistic Director Blog (Inactive). Some examples: 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

I've listed all of the interviews below with links to the audio and the transcripts. 2006 Alli Chagi-Starr, Co-Founder, Art in Action / Art & Media Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights’ Reclaim the Future Program. Please note that because the interviews take place over three years, some people's work has changed.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Setting Up the Event Night Program Crafting a seamless and engaging event program is an art, and the Entertainment & Program Chair is the mastermind behind it. The Entertainment & Program Chair collaborates with lighting, audio-visual, and sound crews to create an immersive experience.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2015

The core of the church is a 2,000-seat theater with a fully functional performance stage and state-of-the-art audio and video capability. As creative director, she and a staff of five people plan and run all the technology for music, audio, visual, multimedia, and communications. Tools the Church Uses to Do It All.

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