The hottest Generative Art Substack posts right now

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Color Palettes, Leaf Music, and NeuralSVG

Generative Arts Collective • 65 implied HN points • 16 Feb 25
🎨 Art & Illustration Generative Art Creative Coding Digital Design Visual Arts
  1. Creating generative art involves using programming to make things like color palettes or music inspired by nature. These projects let you explore creativity with technology.
  2. NeuralSVG is an interesting method for generating vector graphics from text prompts. It helps create more structured designs, which can be really useful for artists.
  3. Using tools like Blender and Three.js can make it easier to design stunning generative visuals. Tutorials are available to help you learn these skills step by step.

Drawing Eno

Austin Kleon • 1778 implied HN points • 23 Jul 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Visual art Film Creativity Generative Art Documentary
  1. The documentary about Brian Eno is exciting and unique because it creates a different version every time it's shown. This encourages viewers to watch it in theaters for a fresh experience.
  2. It uses a special system called Brain One to generate the film. This system combines new interviews and personal clips from Eno’s archive, making each showing feel like a new story.
  3. The movie has interesting marketing advantages. Since every version is different, it gives people a reason to see it on the big screen instead of waiting for it to stream.

Creating Personality w/ Math, Visions of Destruction, and Blender with Voice

Generative Arts Collective • 79 implied HN points • 22 Dec 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Generative Art Creative Coding Digital Art Interactive art AI Art
  1. You can create unique snowflake designs using a website that generates them. It's fun to play around with the designs and save your favorites as SVG files.
  2. Generative AI is being used in interactive art to create experiences that change based on audience interaction. This can highlight important issues like environmental damage.
  3. Using voice commands to control software like Blender shows how technology can make creative tools more accessible, allowing for new and exciting ways to interact with art and design.

Another clueless person attempts to defend generative AI "art"

Top Carbon Chauvinist • 19 implied HN points • 08 Sep 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Generative Art Art Criticism Contemporary Art Visual Culture Creative Process
  1. Generative AI art lacks true artistic intent because it does not involve a person making conscious creative decisions.
  2. Many famous art movements involved randomness, but they still required an artist's direction and vision.
  3. Using AI to create art can lead to results that are very different from what the person intended, making it hard to consider those results as true art.

L-Systems, Elm Puzzle Generator, and Skia

Generative Arts Collective • 65 implied HN points • 09 Dec 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Generative Art Creative Coding Digital Design Interactive art
  1. L-Systems can create beautiful patterns like trees or snowflakes using simple rules. They're fun tools for exploring nature-inspired designs.
  2. Elm is a programming language that makes it easy to create SVG images. You can use it to generate puzzles and get creative.
  3. Skia Canvas lets you use the HTML Canvas API outside a web browser. It's great for making graphics on both servers and desktop applications.
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Domain Warping, Inverse Kinematics, and Iterations

Generative Arts Collective • 79 implied HN points • 17 Nov 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Creative Coding Generative Art Visual art Digital Media
  1. Learning how to create art from scratch lets you put your unique style into the work. It's about understanding the tools and processes involved in making something new.
  2. Art can express deeper meanings, even if the creator isn't consciously aware of them. It's interesting to think about the reasons behind the choices made in any artistic creation.
  3. Technology keeps evolving, especially in creative fields. New tools and techniques allow artists to explore and produce things that were previously not possible.

Critical Making Reflections, 2D Packing, and Grids in R

Generative Arts Collective • 65 implied HN points • 24 Nov 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Art Theory Creative Process Generative Art Art Education Visual Culture
  1. Creativity is about balancing rules and imagination. Understanding the rules helps you know when to break them and innovate.
  2. Making art is a journey that involves exploration. It's important to try new things and take steps, even if you don't know where they will lead.
  3. Looking deeper into things can reveal their true complexity. Just like knowing more about birds goes beyond their colors, understanding art involves seeing beyond the surface.

Computation using Fractions, Shader Based Journeys, and Remembering Lillian Schwartz

Generative Arts Collective • 79 implied HN points • 18 Oct 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Generative Art Creative Coding Digital Art Animation Visual Effects
  1. Lillian Schwartz was a key figure in computer-generated art, known for her innovative techniques that combined art and technology. Her work at Bell Labs helped shape the world of digital expression.
  2. Fractran is a unique computation method based on fractions, using prime numbers for calculations. It's a creative way to explore new ideas in both math and art.
  3. Theatre.js is a helpful animation library that allows artists to create detailed animations without needing advanced coding skills. It's great for those who want to add motion to their creative projects.

🎁 Special Holiday Surprise 🎁

Generative Arts Collective • 39 implied HN points • 22 Nov 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Generative Art Creative Coding Visual Arts Digital Media Art Community
  1. There is a special surprise for paid subscribers who support the newsletter. It's a small thank you gift to show appreciation.
  2. Subscribers can enjoy a 7-day free trial to access the full post archives. This allows new readers to explore past content without commitment.
  3. Generative arts and creative coding are the main themes of the newsletter. These topics encourage creativity and innovation in art and technology.

I am Botto, a decentralized, autonomous artist governed by the people

DeFi Education • 539 implied HN points • 24 Feb 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Digital Art Generative Art NFTs Decentralization
  1. Botto is an artist that works without a human to direct it, relying on people for guidance. It uses technology to create art based on a wide range of images.
  2. This project operates as a DAO, which means the community can vote on artistic decisions. This helps the art to reflect the collective input of the people.
  3. Botto represents the growing field of generative art in the NFT space, showcasing how technology and creativity can come together. It pushes the boundaries of traditional art forms.

Open Source and Open Seas — or: Why AI will be Open Source

followfox.ai’s Newsletter • 117 implied HN points • 03 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Open Source AI Software Development Generative Art Tech industry
  1. Open source software has become a foundational layer of innovation and is prevalent in tech stacks globally.
  2. The interest in open source stems from its ease of debugging, fostering innovation, and being cost-free.
  3. The evolution of tech industries, like AI, shows a progression towards open source to drive innovation and accessibility.

A Short Note on Subscriptions

Cybernetic Forests • 59 implied HN points • 16 Aug 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Generative Art AI Art
  1. The author is offering a special promotion for readers to support their newsletter with a $1.00 monthly donation until September 1st.
  2. The newsletter includes interviews with new media artists, explorations of generative art practices, examinations of generative AI, and historicizing cybernetic and generative art work.
  3. Readers are encouraged to support the newsletter with financial contributions or by sharing it with others who might appreciate its content.

Sound in the Shape of Electricity

Cybernetic Forests • 59 implied HN points • 16 Apr 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Experimental Art Generative Art
  1. Dogbotic is a unique educational space teaching technology through a hands-on, creative, and abstract approach.
  2. Exploring generative art and music through tools like AI and tape loops can lead to innovative ways of creating and understanding sound.
  3. Thinking critically about the use and misuse of new technologies like AI can spark profound insights into our relationship with these tools and their impact on society.

A Generative Week

Cybernetic Forests • 39 implied HN points • 19 Feb 23
🎨 Art & Illustration AI Art Generative Art Artificial Intelligence Visualization Experimental Art
  1. Eryk Salvaggio will be a guest on BBC 4's _Digital Humans_ radio show discussing creativity and automation in AI art
  2. Sensitive Noise is an AI-generated artwork exploring content moderation and human sensuality through censored images
  3. Apply for STORY x CODE, a residency program focusing on AI and Machine Learning in storytelling, filmmaking, and animation

Doing Nothing, Creative Freedom and Airfoil - Tutorial

Generative Arts Collective • 13 implied HN points • 19 Mar 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Generative Art Tutorial
  1. Creativity thrives on individual freedom, allowing artists to express themselves uniquely.
  2. Artists grapple with the balance of being authentic while also desiring recognition and fair compensation for their work.
  3. Consider the interplay between individual expression and collective culture in creative pursuits to maintain a harmonious balance.

Organic Architecture, Automation, and Poisson Flow

Generative Arts Collective • 26 implied HN points • 04 Aug 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Generative Art Creative Coding Automation
  1. Exploring 3D generative asset creation using computational geometry libraries like CGAL can lead to combining organic and inorganic processes.
  2. Automation in creative coding through projects like Automaton offers a framework and GUI to connect coding pieces with animations.
  3. Learning about Poisson Flow Generative Models can provide insights into generating images using deep learning models inspired by physics.

Infinite Barnacle

Cybernetic Forests • 19 implied HN points • 13 Feb 22
🕹 Technology Generative Art Machine Learning Digital Art Artificial Intelligence
  1. Memories and data are distinct - photographs capture data, while memories hold fragments of experiences.
  2. Technology can transform memories into new data - a machine can create new pictures from a collection of images.
  3. Generative images challenge the concept of memory - creating variations that may not accurately reflect the original experience.

OneClick Stable Diffusion Installer that comes prepackaged with SD1.5 and SD2.0

Barn Lab • 0 implied HN points • 25 Apr 23
🕹 Technology AI Software Installation Generative Art Neural Networks
  1. The OneClick Stable Diffusion Installer includes SD 1.5 and SD 2.0 models to simplify installation for users.
  2. The installer provides integrated model downloader to access famous models within the SD interface.
  3. For those interested in AI generative art, AUTOMATIC1111 is a feature-packed interface worth exploring after trying InvokeAI.

Fighting Against Generative Art is Futile

The Future of Life • 0 implied HN points • 11 Apr 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Generative Art Digital Art AI Art Art Criticism
  1. AI art is quickly getting better and could surpass human art. It's not worth arguing that human artists are always better because AI can improve rapidly.
  2. Generative art can create infinite variations based on a single prompt. This raises questions about what makes an artwork valuable when there are so many similar pieces.
  3. AI can make original art, not just copy others. Even though it learns from existing art, it can mix ideas in new ways, much like how writers use language.