The Wikipedia image for stable diffusion, an AI platform that generates images from text prompts, is a surrealist photo showing an astronaut atop a horse. At first glance, it scans as realistic, the horse in mid-trot, a forest in the background. But a closer inspection reveals that the astronaut seems to have no hands or […]
Tag: digital art
Posted inArts & Culture
Inside SAIC’s Bio Art Lab, where art is life—literally
In a basement below Michigan Avenue, poetry turns into viruses and yeast into music.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A short list of reasons we shouldn’t want the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum
A short list of reasons we shouldn’t want the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum—and a really short list of reasons why we might.