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6 Healing Artists

Have Fun - Do Good

"Art is a wound turned into light."- I truly believe that art can heal, which is why I love producing the Arts and Healing Podcast for the Arts and Healing Network. I truly believe that art can heal, which is why I love producing the Arts and Healing Podcast for the Arts and Healing Network.

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Mr Eazi, Black Coffee and Ajebutter22: The African music artists backing startups

TechCrunch

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? and Europe — launched EmPawa Africa , an outfit to accelerate the music careers of young artists.

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Brian Eno is not a fan of NFTs

The Verge

In an interview with Crypto Syllabus (conducted by longtime tech critic Evgeny Morozov , of all people), Eno outed himself as a skeptic of cryptocurrency — and NFTs in particular. How sweet — now artists can become little capitalist a s as well.”. If you were saving up Ethereum for a set of Discreet Music NFTs, we’ve got bad news.

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Artists are playing takedown whack-a-mole to fight counterfeit merch

The Verge

There are all sorts of obstacles that are thrown up in front of artists’ Matt Buchholz’s artwork is usually a hit during the holidays. Someone sent me a screenshot and was like, ‘Hey, I just saw this ad on Facebook for your calendar’,” he said in an interview with The Verge. Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole.

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This startup wants to train art-generating AI strictly on licensed images

TechCrunch

Two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are entangled in a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools on web-scraped images. Generative AI, particularly text-to-image AI, is attracting as many lawsuits as it is venture dollars.

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Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen back $30M fund exclusively investing in NFT art

TechCrunch

The fund plans to invest about half of the fund in so-called “blue-chip NFTs,” including popular projects like CryptoPunks, Art Blocks and Bored Apes, as well as works from popular artists selling singular NFT works. A nine-figure fund for JPGs?

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Hurricane Sandy Art Relief: An Interview with Elana Haviv

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CMCE creates academic and artistic programs to help children and youth understand and overcome violent world events. CMCE creates academic and artistic programs to help children and youth understand and overcome violent world events. After 9/11, she spearheaded an art-based CMCE 9/11 Trauma Relief Project in the New York City schools.