Technology
Mail art meets NFTs for all in the ‘MoMA Postcard’ programme
New York museum invites online audience to make and own non-fungible tokens communally on the blockchain in 15-person groups
Can location-specific digital technologies help to resolve debates on restitution?
Many believe new applications—from AI and NFTs to 3D scanning—are game changing in returning objects to source communities. Lawyers say they can make the process harder
How TikTok coaches art world institutions to go viral
The social media platform's lifestyle and education team has been offering services to companies like Sotheby's to help improve content and grow followings
Artist and AI pioneers use DeepDream to create ‘hallucinatory’ depictions of landscapes by Capability Brown
Daniel Ambrosi used Google's AI to reimagine high-res photographs of parkland designed by the 18th-century landscape architect
New art project seeks to capture the sounds of migration
The initiative is a collaboration between the University of Oxford and Cities and Memory, which since 2015 has been forming a sound map of the world
From VR to NFTs: in the year of AI, how should we define digital art?
The opening of Digital Art Fair in Hong Kong is a moment to take stock of how technological developments have changed the nature of digital art
Architects of light: how artists are using years of hardware advances to serve their vision
Shows in London and Amsterdam and new works marking 300 years since Christopher Wren’s death reveal artists putting concept first, despite the paralysis of choice offered by infinitely programmable LEDs
Does coverage of Sotheby's Freddie Mercury sales show that auctions are perfect TikTok fodder?
Videos of bidding battles for the Queen frontman's possessions resulted in the auction house doubling its TikTok followers in less than a week
Artists, writers, performers and their advocates call on US Congress to ban companies from copyrighting AI-generated art
The AI Day of Action, scheduled for 2 October, comes as US officials consider whether and how to regulate material generated by artificial intelligence
Elvis returns to Las Vegas in Marco Brambilla’s new video for the Sphere, created with AI
The King reclaims his throne in an immersive video that will play during U2’s concerts at the city’s new $2.3bn entertainment complex
Fresh light on Wren: new installations interact with the domed spaces of two of the architect's greatest buildings
300 hundred years after the death of Christopher Wren, the London Design Festival has commissioned new pieces of light art for St Paul’s Cathedral and St Stephen Walbrook
Invisible by numbers: artists must remain vigilant to escape censorship loop created by social media shadowbans
New European regulations have required Instagram to reveal how some artists’ accounts have been deprived of visibility. But fears remain over who has access to the culture-shaping power of social media
A question of attribution: just how useful can AI tools be?
Connoisseurs and app makers agree on one thing: artificial intelligence-driven apps may supplement but do not replace the human eye and expertise in assessing a picture’s authorship
Pulling at loose Threads: should the art world sign up to the latest social media app?
Art world figures are forging new personalities on the new 'Twitter clone' from Meta
Venture capital and other tech-industry funding methods come to the art world
There is more variety than ever in how and why art is funded and the Silicon Valley models have arrived
Is AI generating an ‘averaged’, one-sided, view of art history?
Artists are getting creative to counter visual language being skewed by image-generating apps that average out scraped stock photos and social media files into “mean images”
Blockchain platforms promise resale royalties and provenance tracking for physical artworks
After NFT boom, blockchain technology is increasingly being used to help solve art industry's practical problems
Art world AI-nxiety: what is artificial intelligence and how are artists using it?
Plus, the AI photography scandal at the Sony World Photography Awards
'AI will become the new normal’: how the art world's technological boom is changing the industry
Artificial intelligence art projects are popping up everywhere, forcing difficult questions around artist agency, copyright and market value
Paris's Centre Pompidou breaks new ground by acquiring 18 NFTs
The acquisition, the first of its kind by a major French public museum, includes works by Jonas Lund, Robness, Agnieszka Kurant and Sarah Meyohas
Mysterious NFT collector—who may actually be the rapper Snoop Dogg—gifts 22 blockchain works to Lacma
Pseudonymous NFT collector Cozomo de’ Medici gives Los Angeles County Museum of Art "largest collection of its kind in a US museum"
Artist Gabriel Massan uses video game world-building and the blockchain to reimagine the meaning of 'Third World'
The Brazilian digital artist is creating a multi-level collaborative game as part of the Serpentine Galleries' Artist Worlds programme, and minting tokens with the Tezos Ecosystem blockchain
Fleeing Twitter? Sick of Instagram? Eight lesser-known social media sites for the art world to try
More than a million users have left Twitter since business magnate took over the platform
Artist robot goes to UK parliament—and gives politicians nightmares
“Contemporary art project” Ai-Da gave evidence to the House of Lords, taking questions from bemused members
Investigative artists Forensic Architecture claim to uncover new evidence in shooting of Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh
Working with human rights organisation Al-Haq, new report says journalists were deliberately targeted by Israeli forces in May
NFTs use 'smart' contracts—but what exactly are they?
The sale of works on the blockchain inscribes "promises" within the code—but it is not that simple
Christie’s launches venture capital fund for art tech startups with a focus on NFTs
Move follows concerted drive by the auction house to gain ground in the blockchain and fintech domains
What is generative art and why does it matter?
As Phillips presents the first ever auction dedicated to the medium, we consider what it is and how it is curated
JR in AR: artists wants people to leave portraits in the metaverse in new project
App in partnership with Superblue to be rolled out across cities worldwide