Kate Armstrong

Do we wanna be somebody Part 2 of the series “Canada’s AI Strategy Forgot the Artists” If Part 1 was about why, this one is about what.

I've written a 2 part series on AI and cultural policy - would love to hear thoughts!

Part 1: Canada's AI Strategy forgot the artists aifutures.substack.com/p/canadas-ai...

Part 2 Do we wanna be somebody? open.substack.com/pub/aifuture...

Super excited about this project with RefractionDAO and baseapp x.com/RefractionDA...

Thank you !

@coinop29.bsky.social

Interview with Jonah Brucker-Cohen When tools push back

New today! Interview with Jonah Brucker-Cohen, a critical media artist and researcher whose work explores the often invisible systems that shape our digital lives.

aifutures.substack.com/p/interview-...

What Lurks Inside Interactive Video Today's gothic miracle

New post on Substack! Today's subject is interactive video and how we might come to see 2D images differently once we can "play" 3 dimensionally inside any image. Also - mid-century Italian gothic horror and Loeb. aifutures.substack.com/p/what-lurks...

The universe is giving Storm Troopers AI is an engine for manifesting zeitgeist

Is it just me or does AI allow zeitgeist to be created and measured in real time aifutures.substack.com/p/the-univer...

I was there Where is our freakishly successful envelope-pushing cultural infrastructure that stretches underneath it all like an undulating electric field pulsing with glory?

new substack post - This is what happens when you ask me about cultural policy.... aifutures.substack.com/p/i-was-there

AI Futures for Art and Design | Kate Armstrong | Substack Charting impacts of AI technologies on art and design and imagining new futures. Click to read AI Futures for Art and Design, by Kate Armstrong, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

I can’t compare to Eryk salvaggio but here’s mine - would love to know what you think aifutures.substack.com

reflecting on the state of AI Film in 2025 aifutures.substack.com/p/unaddresse...

Was very busy last week in Los Angeles and forgot to send this around. New post> aifutures.substack.com/p/making-str... check it out 🎉

Yo Biennale! Conversing with museum objects is todays's subject on my substack aifutures.substack.com/p/messages-f...

New post on my substack: Thoughts on Immersive Media - check it out and let me know what you think open.substack.com/pub/aifuture...

Big Boi The sublime new giants among us

New post on my substack about why everything right now is SO LARGE aifutures.substack.com/p/big-boi

Law of Accelerating Returns, Cow Version Quick reminder for those of us who might have forgotten what an outrageously extravagant, fantastical and improbable moment we are living through with regard to Generative AI in terms of the vast poss...

Law of Accelerating Returns - Cow Version: new post on substack aifutures.substack.com/p/law-of-acc...

No plans for it actually tho would love to ! You going ?

Soon I will release a little collection of text works from outer space >>> here's one for Valentine's day (romantic? Notsure)

TESTING bluesky images and how they work: image: from a forthcoming series stay tuned!

🦏TESTING pink sky🦏🦏 image: From multiple realities - experimental art in the eastern block 1960-1980 at @vanartgallery

It’s super grim - he has 11 children and apparently has chosen one of them as the best and that is x so he takes him everywhere

University of Bergen Library has added the book from our 2005 work Grafik Dynamo to the collection en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafik_... 😍

Hive mind - are there any fabulous conferences or openings in art, AI, web3 etc in NYC April 25-30ish, or anyone around?

Pros and choices The NeurIPs convention brought 16,000 AI people to Vancouver last week, including Ted Chiang, the famous science fiction author and author of the article in the New Yorker that caused so much stir in ...

I just realized I've been forgetting to post my substack links. Check it out, would love comments on this or other posts -- aifutures.substack.com/p/pros-and-c...

KATE ARMSTRONG AND MICHAEL TIPPETT | OBUM

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With this project, @mtippett.bsky.social and I wanted to capture and expand OBUM’s strange world. The 13 works offered by @ExpandedArt curated by @postanika as part of Reimagine Tomorrow (1954-2024) mark the launch of this world-building project.

What makes OBUM unique for us as artists is how it almost felt discovered, not created. Even the name "OBUM" appeared spontaneously during the creative process, as if the project named itself.

As post-photographic AI art, OBUM’s images are derived from human-made datasets, so the works are in some way products of our collective unconscious that reflect our culture's preoccupations with power, sexuality, and consumerism.

The project features solitary women juxtaposed with bizarre machines or vehicles. These images feel familiar yet unsettling, like glimpsing an alternate reality.