# Best of lerandom.art on Kiwi News Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/source/lerandom.art 27 stories from lerandom.art have been shared on Kiwi News since 6 December 2023, with 38 upvotes and 2 comments in total. The latest was shared on 9 June 2026. They are listed below, most upvoted first. Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article. ## 1. AGH on Glorifying the Computer - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/AGH-on-Glorifying-the-Computer?index=0x65702dfc86625bd455ae7f6b80943623fd76a01656e026a4dcede705419a8c2ab10e4664 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/agh-on-glorifying-the-computer - Shared 6 December 2023, 4 upvotes, 0 comments AGH, the Berlin-based trio of Kim Asendorf, Andreas Gysin and Leander Herzog, described in an interview with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) its formation and its commitment to glorifying the computer. Herzog said the group formed so that it could gain control over its shows, which he said were often poorly curated, badly documented and presented on small screens. The artists said their work is real-time, code-based and adaptable to any screen size, and Herzog argued that static images referencing past aesthetics are irritating. Asendorf said a piece can be written in 10 kilobytes of code yet expand into an endless stream of data, which video could not replicate. ## 2. Evil Biscuit on card nft 2, Destruction & Rebirth - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Evil-Biscuit-on-card-nft-2-Destruction-and-Rebirth?index=0x6a27c7344e7b55f89ff1dcd4e5db8832fad60fc3f1fac974764d3892eaad3177b3e9f61b - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/evil-biscuit-on-card-nft-2-destruction-rebirth - Shared 9 June 2026, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Artist Evil Biscuit discusses card nft 2, a trading-card-inspired project first shown with SOLOS Gallery at Felix Art Fair in February 2026, which combines digital NFTs with physical cards that holders can redeem. The collection includes around 11,000 cards sold in more than 3,000 packs, and Biscuit says roughly a third of cards are typically redeemed, a third stay sealed, and a third are opened online and kept as NFTs. Physical cards are printed on demand with a UV printer, and Stripe payments on mons.shop let buyers purchase packs without a crypto wallet. Biscuit says the project aims to reach audiences beyond crypto and NFT collectors. ## 3. Aaron Hertzmann on Caring about People - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Aaron-Hertzmann-on-Caring-about-People?index=0x69dcec0879f8864bd3d61765fd36c5f27cf2897bd1c008c46d920606b900e03692f23154 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/aaron-hertzmann-on-caring-about-people - Shared 13 April 2026, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Aaron Hertzmann argues that AI can automate certain artistic tasks, but that authorship remains a human social construct rooted in personal relationships and agency, in a conversation with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony). Hertzmann says the question of whether computers can make art still matters because many people have not moved past it, and he compares it to earlier fears that photography and computer animation would make artists obsolete. He says treating computers as artists would mean treating them as people, and he calls Botto a system that Klingemann built and set up, lacking the agency to change how it works. He also notes that democratized tools have not removed the need for skill or talent. ## 4. Keiken on the Worldbuilding Lens - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Keiken-on-the-Worldbuilding-Lens?index=0x69d3fbd7d1c4fe99c68ecfe5ce205cdb024c3cfcdf92dde136238fd51cc2a19865af8196 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/keiken-on-the-worldbuilding-lens - Shared 6 April 2026, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Keiken, the artist collective co-founded by Hana Amori, presents worldbuilding as a basic lens for exploring consciousness, community and lived experience, as Amori discusses with Peter Bauman. Amori says the collective began in 2015 with Tanya Cruz and Isabel Ramos, and that its work now depends on collaborators such as game designer Mati Bratkowski. Since 2024, Keiken has worked with a research team of deaf and blind haptic designers and game designers based in Japan. Amori describes fantasy as a safe space, citing game designer Yukio Nozawa, who has made over fifty games and keeps a guardian cat in each one. ## 5. Gottfried Jäger on a New Kind of Being - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Gottfried-Jager-on-a-New-Kind-of-Being?index=0x69a620b11d41964b59847ee8cd9475be4b6a6a5884f14bdcd97c72f5ffbd4e0971b44039 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/gottfried-jager-on-a-new-kind-of-being - Shared 2 March 2026, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Gottfried Jäger reflects on how he helped define Generative Photography, a rule-based practice grounded in systems, light and mathematics, and how his earlier experiments relate to today's AI-driven image culture. He describes his father's portrait studio in Burg near Magdeburg, which he says shaped his interest in photography. Jäger says his 1968 exhibition Generative Fotografie at the Kunsthaus Bielefeld, with Herbert W. Franke as its theoretical foundation, marked the point where he committed to this field. He also argues that generative AI is merging representation and image generation into a new mode of visual existence. ## 6. Postgenerative Language Games - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Postgenerative-Language-Games?index=0x69937becfbe4ad2513f1a8fa3d070ec40bb3aaf89085937e2042b71ef84ee6d52bd054b7 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/post-generative-language-games - Shared 16 February 2026, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Alasdair Milne argues that dmstfctn's free-to-play onchain AI text game Fango 1000, released in 2025, keeps meaning-making human by turning interpretation into onchain governance rather than outsourcing lore to AI. Players join one of three factions (Monks, Scholars or Fools), write interpretations of fixed chronicle facts, and vote, with collective votes determining what becomes canon. The game was developed as part of the ARTeCHÓ fellowship, following 2024 prototype exhibitions at Koelhuis, Eindhoven and Etopia, Zaragoza. Its scenery is rendered in a "postgenerative" style that avoids generative AI models, using Carlo Crivelli paintings run through procedural manipulation. ## 7. Zero 10 Part 2: Fair Transparency - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Zero-10-Part-2-Fair-Transparency?index=0x694970cec240d086c75b36b861b3d2cbe65910655e5483be2caeb704f061f3b6687499ca - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/zero-10-part-2-fair-transparency - Shared 22 December 2025, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Kevin Buist argues that Art Basel Miami Beach's Zero 10 section was at its best when artists used digital media to build experiences that could not exist otherwise, and that the strongest works treated the fair itself as a medium. He singles out Jack Butcher's Self Checkout (2025), a split-flap display that began at -$74,211, the cost of Butcher's participation, and rose to $114,706.51 by the end of the fair as visitors bought receipt-artworks of any amount. Buist reports that Butcher told him, "Transparency is seen as critique." He also notes that purely physical works in the section were less distinctive than the screen-based and interactive ones, and that the crypto community's underdog framing overlooked how varied Zero 10 was. ## 8. Demystifying Generative Art - Editorial - Le Random - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Demystifying-Generative-Art-Editorial-Le-Random?index=0x6697a5980237cedafbf3f7c9614cd10d7a5477dc5352c60453e5dd803063ab119cb3bf83 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/demystifying-generative-art - Shared 17 July 2024, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) proposes a framework for analyzing generative art, art using autonomous systems, through three levels: process, results and concept, rather than treating either the system or its outputs as the sole locus of artistic intent. He describes "Systemists" such as Casey Reas, who calls the system the artwork, and "Resultists" such as Zach Lieberman and Tyler Hobbs, who prioritize the visual output. The article notes that Conceptualists like Ania Catherine of Operator treat the idea as the artwork, and that Bauman's framework adds formal, conceptual and contextual levels of analysis drawn from plastic art. ## 9. Mona Lisa to monogrid - Editorial - Le Random - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Mona-Lisa-to-monogrid-Editorial-Le-Random?index=0x661d4d7fd9a89039977dd4de3718e075f590be6640999252e720c652b78476a8310fa08a - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/mona-lisa-to-monogrid - Shared 15 April 2024, 2 upvotes, 0 comments The shift from paintings like Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to works like Kim Asendorf's monogrid is framed as the mechanization of art, which began in earnest about two hundred years ago with the invention of the camera. Machines are described as systematic ways of thinking rather than any single device, drawing on Vera Molnár's and Sol LeWitt's views. The account traces this through Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion (1887), Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending the Staircase (1912), and Molnár's "machine imaginaire." It ends with Tyler Hobbs's algorithmic work and Asendorf's work celebrating the digital and its mechanical legacy. ## 10. Hito Steyerl on How It Uses Us - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Hito-Steyerl-on-How-It-Uses-Us?index=0x688494a4ba2966c553c0e6b36989239cb9501b6a1433e87a544653bc7a89b1d0a9fcacdb - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/hito-steyerl-on-how-it-uses-us - Shared 26 July 2025, 1 upvote, 2 comments Hito Steyerl argues that the central question about AI is how it uses people and for what purposes, not whether artists and writers personally adopt it. She ties machine learning industries to energy consumption, militarization, data colonialism, surveillance and automation, and says ML is helping authoritarian governments and boosting far-right movements. She also says ML will reduce the bargaining power of many wage-reliant workers in the medium term, and that Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson argue that productivity gains will not be redistributed voluntarily, so social movements will be needed. ## 11. The Cerebral Samba: Protocol Art, Worldbuilding & Our Two Brains - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Cerebral-Samba-Protocol-Art-Worldbuilding-and-Our-Two-Brains?index=0x6a08f02dc6a325c22cb1a77abb9c28f5094139abff6486610d60c14928635e3d86b7bccb - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/the-cerebral-samba-protocol-art-worldbuilding-our-two-brains - Shared 16 May 2026, 1 upvote, 0 comments Peter Bauman argues that protocol art and worldbuilding externalize the brain's two hemispheres: the left hemisphere's urge to formalize reality into rules, and the right hemisphere's urge to inhabit it as an open environment. Drawing on Iain McGilchrist's view of the divided brain, Bauman places artists on a sliding scale, with Primavera De Filippi's Plantoid as a protocol instantiator, Trevor Paglen's ImageNet Roulette as protocol critique, and Jakob Kudsk Steensen's The Song Trapper as worldbuilding. Bauman says these practices make the brain's operations visible and shareable. ## 12. Seams and Synthesis: Schizocollage and AI Aesthetics - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Seams-and-Synthesis-Schizocollage-and-AI-Aesthetics?index=0x69812705cbef5b09a05785de81087a34fa2182de3bf9c0a58bb268e647fc9690a1f64d22 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/seams-and-synthesis-schizocollage-and-ai-aesthetics - Shared 2 February 2026, 1 upvote, 0 comments Brian Droitcour argues that contemporary NFT art operates in productive tension between schizocollage, which foregrounds visible seams and difference, and generative AI, which synthesizes difference into coherent wholes. The article names Mons and Little Swag World by Supermetal Bosch, and Ugly Bitches and Little Darlings by Ann Hirsch and Maya Man, as the most compelling examples of this tension. Bosch trained a GAN on images of cartoon monsters to produce blurry, half-realized creatures, while Hirsch and Man used GAN-processed composites and Stable Diffusion figurines to satirize collector desire. ## 13. Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst on Artificial Psychedelia - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Holly-Herndon-and-Mat-Dryhurst-on-Artificial-Psychedelia?index=0x6925881d9313768c3894152afb147a58cd14d0a5a920ef70cdff1bf2efd956734c1020c4 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/holly-herndon-mat-dryhurst-on-artificial-psychedelia - Shared 25 November 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst discuss their installation Starmirror at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, on view until January 18, 2026, as an attempt to build an AI public space that persists, unlike most AI models that produce ephemera. Starmirror is the German chapter of their series after The Call, the UK edition, and draws on medieval composer Hildegard von Bingen, with a songbook that hosts call-and-response choir singing in the exhibition space. Herndon and Dryhurst also argue that culture is an ongoing act of reinterpretation rather than a fixed file, and that AI models work in a similarly recombinative way. ## 14. AA Cavia on Summoning Worlds - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/AA-Cavia-on-Summoning-Worlds?index=0x68ffdf5504093d8d273fe31c4e29541528a8b22ddcfe7adcd3f4ccccf85bf5e3ea66de0f - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/aa-cavia-on-summoning-worlds - Shared 27 October 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments AA Cavia discusses a topological view of computation, which he describes as a shift from rule-based programs to cognitive models such as deep learning, with Peter Bauman. Cavia argues that computation is essentially cognitive and that its grounding rests on realizability, which introduces an irrevocable uncertainty into logic. He contrasts the decomposability of earlier algorithms, using Ken Perlin's Perlin Noise as an example, with the stochastic diffusivity of synthetic media. He also argues that composing a scene means summoning a world in latent space, citing Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon's Readyweight θ (2024) as an example. ## 15. Cognitive Technologies - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Cognitive-Technologies?index=0x689d0fb9f57105b142eae1d3828a8755d7bfb5693a87566ce117dca860e4ebecbe5e67d9 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/cognitive-technologies - Shared 13 August 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments Brian Droitcour argues that AI systems, in the hands of thoughtful artists, can become instruments for seeing the world differently and for reconsidering human perception. He reviews K. Allado-McDowell's The Known Lost at the Swiss Institute and Pierre Huyghe's In Imaginal at Marian Goodman Gallery, which he says use generative AI and robotics as collaborative agents. Allado-McDowell's installation proposes a monument to extinct species, with Midjourney images and seven volumes of Latin species names, while Huyghe's show includes Camata, a film made from robot-captured footage in Chile's Atacama Desert. Droitcour describes Huyghe's work as decentering the human and Allado-McDowell's as keeping the human at the center. ## 16. Post(human)-AI Art - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Posthuman-AI-Art?index=0x68922e15cd5caecb657c6d4e72bc0d27228f49264c95eb631ad469c0733a1f25fb91f0b6 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/post-human--ai-art - Shared 5 August 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) argues that Post-AI Art departs from AI Art by rejecting human-centric views in favor of a posthumanist perspective emphasizing interdependence, entanglement and co-inhabitation between humans and non-humans, including AI. The article traces this lineage to Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Donna Haraway and James Bridle. It also notes that Entangled Others (Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick) moved away from the human face in 2020, a shift McCormick called "very much a response" to AI Art's human-centric early years. ## 17. Reprogramming Sensory Habits - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Reprogramming-Sensory-Habits?index=0x684c9c8f4812168b4d090ba1ed140117ddce2860a84bbb3e6acb31cfad8b4c8d07367c38 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/reprogramming-sensory-habits - Shared 13 June 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments Tom White presents Atlas of Perception, a spinning sculpture of roughly fifty visual concepts from Google's SigLIP vision model, each shown as an animated visualization that was verified to activate its concept. White says the names are whimsical nicknames he chose so the concepts could be referred to, and he frames the work as exposing what these systems have learned about the visual world. Separately, Justin Urbach discusses BLINDHAED with AI researchers Alexander Koenig and William East, explaining that event cameras respond only to local brightness changes and that the artists chose them for their otherworldly imagery. ## 18. Dmitri Cherniak on Strictly for Art - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Dmitri-Cherniak-on-Strictly-for-Art?index=0x68374d15dab508858c669d5a9ba1b3d31850cdf3f14263176b18b2202843027bcb4211f7 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/dmitri-cherniak-on-strictly-for-art - Shared 28 May 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments Dmitri Cherniak discusses his participation in the Toledo Museum of Art's group show Infinite Images and the growing presence of generative and code-based art in museums, in a conversation with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony). Cherniak says the popularity of generative art has grown by an order of magnitude, and that curators now see it as a line from Sol LeWitt and Constructivism to the present. He points to the 2019 Christiane Paul show Programmed at the Whitney as a major moment, and says blockchains let collectors engage with the software directly. He also describes automation as his artistic medium. ## 19. Kim Asendorf on Elegant Symbiosis - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Kim-Asendorf-on-Elegant-Symbiosis?index=0x679e3f4be92049bda36888e46602ed0af266c51f9ebc5764222aeb9879171af01eb6a5a3 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/kim-asendorf-on-elegant-symbiosis - Shared 1 February 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments Kim Asendorf describes PXL DEX as an experimental work that tokenizes the pixel to explore the symbiosis between code, blockchains and crypto culture. Asendorf says PXL is an art coin rather than a meme coin or artist coin, and that he will not create a coin bearing his own name. He states that the maximum supply is 256 million pixels, 25% of the total pixel supply, with a fixed market cap of 1.024 billion in the smart contract. Asendorf also argues that technology should not be hidden in art, saying that for most of his work, relying on technology is natural and that he would rather celebrate it. ## 20. Inside Qubibi’s Shinjuku Studio - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Inside-Qubibis-Shinjuku-Studio?index=0x67772a0c264665c25a5face8625bb62f9e78c11ceeed1dcb578822a9e67d1c80129dac61 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/inside-qubibis-shinjuku-studio - Shared 3 January 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) reflects on how a visit to artist Kazumasa Teshigawara, known as qubibi, at his Shinjuku Kaibutsu studio highlights themes of contradiction, cyclicality, repetition and discovery through stillness. Bauman links these themes to qubibi's mimizu series, in which worms are contradictions, alive yet symbols of decay. qubibi says he left his previous studio in early 2023 when it was renovated, and that he has worked standing for the past two years. He says his teenage textile factory work, where he learned the grid of woven fabric, is an influence he only recognizes in hindsight. ## 21. Trevor Paglen on Technological Points of View - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Trevor-Paglen-on-Technological-Points-of-View?index=0x67097b3797e24e991f739c4f2784078b3c3c607ba798d4c0bf2c59129203713885ab47f2 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/trevor-paglen-trevor-paglen-on-technological-points-of-view - Shared 11 October 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments Artist Trevor Paglen argues that artists are needed to expose the biases built into AI and technology, and that technology cannot be unbiased because every technology embeds a point of view. He says that when examining computer vision systems, the key questions are what a technology is optimized to see and who benefits, citing facial recognition in police body cams and driving assistant systems that send habit data to insurers. Paglen also says technology is flawed because the economic incentives it operates under are flawed, and that imagining non-capitalist technologies would require theorizing what they might look like. The interview was conducted by Peter Bauman (Monk Antony), editor in chief of Le Random. ## 22. Simon Denny on Society, Technology and Art - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Simon-Denny-on-Society-Technology-and-Art?index=0x66ea99a582f0b1ee74c9eedd594998bb8062d64f91cea45750e4800334ff1b50fbb3fc35 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/simon-denny-on-society-technology-and-art - Shared 18 September 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments Simon Denny argues that technology is both a logistical and a narrative device, and that he personally tends toward optimism while holding critical questions about it. In a conversation with Peter Bauman, Denny says art is valuable for describing how technology feels and for questioning its role in people's lives. He links the current downturn in cultural spending to political instability, and he draws on Marc Andreessen's dot-com claims in discussing his project Dotcom Séance. ## 23. Joan Heemskerk on Quantum Web4 - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Joan-Heemskerk-on-Quantum-Web4?index=0x66e16414227e51c276d0bf45a3b33c88f60f73bc249096f46ab2a2342e8267649b1b6f6c - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/joan-heemskerk-on-quantum-web4 - Shared 11 September 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments Joan Heemskerk, of the net.art duo JODI, completed a two-month residency between CERN, where the World Wide Web was born, and Copenhagen Contemporary, and the resulting work will be shown at Copenhagen Contemporary in 2025. In an interview with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony), she discusses her interest in quantum computing and what she calls Web4, a joke name she uses for a quantum, non-binary web. She compares the early 1990s web, limited to governments, militaries and research institutions, to today's quantum networks, which she says are still very local, and she describes quantum computers as roughly comparable to 1950s mainframes. ## 24. John Maeda on Computational Evolution - Editorial - Le Random - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/John-Maeda-on-Computational-Evolution-Editorial-Le-Random?index=0x66a2734584ef74e56b55c756dd3695fc67fbfda83ac6c7d65a1eac35e225e82f55bc5a07 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/john-maeda-on-computational-evolution - Shared 25 July 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments John Maeda discusses his combined identity as a technologist, artist and designer, arguing that a multidisciplinary approach is essential to innovation and creativity, in an interview with Peter Bauman for Le Random. Maeda says he is genuinely excited about AI, much as he was about the early World Wide Web, and that artists will need to become much faster at delivering their work because latent diffusion models can generate images in seconds. On his own work, he says his art lies in the fact that he made it, and he notes that he recently changed roles at Microsoft from VP of Design to VP of Engineering. ## 25. Michael Kozlowski on Exploration as Practice - Editorial - Le Random - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Michael-Kozlowski-on-Exploration-as-Practice-Editorial-Le-Random?index=0x6620f7824236f1c41f66e512992827d1988259136d4c0f88e0b398c6478c9a8a540b120d - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/michael-kozlowski-on-exploration-as-practice - Shared 18 April 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments Michael Kozlowski discusses his contribution to the Bright Moments Finale Collection, an untitled work that is a self-taught exploration of signed distance fields (SDFs), a computer graphics technique for rendering shapes. He says he spent only about a month on the piece, largely during transatlantic flights, and that it is roughly seven kilobytes of code, about two kilobytes of JavaScript and five of GLSL. Kozlowski says he is moving away from paint simulations, which he describes as something he is now bored of, and plans to keep exploring SDFs. ## 26. Bright Moments, The Finale Cryptocitizen Collection, Sixty Artists, One Contract - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Bright-Moments-The-Finale-Cryptocitizen-Collection-Sixty-Artists-One-Contract?index=0x661e9db70559e6d06d98e020e345049780fdb047e355619576c6e1b23a27a1a1ef26d0b4 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/bright-moments-on-prioritizing-the-personal - Shared 16 April 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments Bright Moments concludes its three-year global tour at the 2024 Venice Biennale with the Finale Collection, which brings together works by over sixty artists on a single contract. In a conversation with Peter Bauman, Bright Moments team members Phil Mohun, Seth Goldstein and Samer Dabra (Spongenuity), along with Art Blocks founder Erick Calderon (Snowfro) and artists Maya Man, Anna Carreras and Piter Pasma, discuss the project's themes of community, randomness and transformation. Phil Mohun says participating artists were invited only if they had taken part in earlier Bright Moments projects. Seth Goldstein describes the minting process, in which collectors receive a random work from a random artist, and Erick Calderon argues that the project shows people can engage with art as communally as they do with sports or music. ## 27. Lauren Lee McCarthy on Software Values - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Lauren-Lee-McCarthy-on-Software-Values?index=0x65df5cfee04a7f6c1170bb5dc8f9362283c98fc7a60fd4f4af5bec415b5084e35a6f3de5 - Source: https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/lauren-lee-mccarthy-on-software-values - Shared 28 February 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments Lauren Lee McCarthy, creator of p5.js, discusses her first long-form generative art project, Seeing Voices, with Peter Bauman, and argues that people should question the values built into the software they use. She describes making the drawings that form Seeing Voices by hand, interpreting AI-generated text phrase by phrase as if she were Midjourney, and then using custom software to combine and crop the scans. McCarthy says the companion piece, Voice In My Head, made with Kyle McDonald, lets participants customize an AI voice for their inner monologue, which raises questions about whether people want AI to replace their thoughts.