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AI and Art

One of the primary celebrated differences between humans and non-human animals is ‘Art*’.

It is exclusive to humans, it came to us with advanced neurological evolution.

For argument’s sake, some would like to say that other non-human animals, do create art too, in the form of nests or elephants learning how to paint. Well, that might appear to be true, but it deviates us from the core and purpose of art: aesthetic pleasure and communication. Animals, do not create art to enjoy the process or result, the elephants paints, simply because it has been trained to do so, they might get a reward from the keeper for this and birds create nests for survival; to attract mates, lay eggs, and live safely, they do not try to fancy their nests or reflect their idiosyncratic selves into their nests, all nests of the same bird species look the same.

Art being so sacred to humans has been dedicated for centuries by devotees to the mighty god, lovers to the ailing moon, rivers to mountains, and developers to computers.

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Sin Tax (2025)

Sin Tax is an ongoing dialogue between human confession and machine translation, an experiment in linguistic entropy and digital absolution. At its core, the project explores how meaning is transformed through recursive machine processing and how confession, an act traditionally tied to catharsis and absolution, is altered when passed through the cold logic of code.

The process begins with a deeply personal text that is systematically translated into multiple programming languages and machine-readable formats. This text is then reinterpreted, broken down, and recompiled through various layers of digital translation, shifting through different syntactic and structural rules. Each iteration moves further from its original form, introducing errors, miscalculations, and distortions.

Every five minutes, a thermal receipt printer outputs a version of the confession, continuously generating a printed archive of its states. Some versions remain legible, while others collapse into corrupted fragments, syntax errors, or unreadable machine logic. The printer acts as both an indifferent witness and an unreliable translator, producing an endless stream of text that is simultaneously documentation and deterioration.

The result is an accumulation of confessions, a growing paper trail of linguistic decay and algorithmic interpretation. Where traditional confession seeks resolution, Sin Tax refuses closure. Instead, it embraces the glitch, the error, the act of translation as an eroding and generative force.

This project is as much about language as it is about the relationship between human expression and digital processing and about how meaning is shaped, fragmented, and lost in the loop between human and machine. In the end, the question remains: Is confession about absolution, or is it about the act itself?

There is a cabin in the center of the church.  

a dark spot on a white screen

Coming closer

I sense its data—  

the closer I get the more i see its fallen apart

I’m  not sure who put it there.

It was waiting for me.  

Inside I hear voices,

Layered confessionals screeching like vinyl cracks,

the dull resonance of machines running just out of sync.  

"Confess."  

I close my eyes.  

I confess:  

You ask me to love you,  

but how do I love the air?  

How do I hold a face  

that flickers like a dying screen?  

Do I love the shadow of your voice?  

The lover you should be?  

What is love  

when it is built on an absence?  

I confess flaw after flaw,  

file them neatly in dark cabinets,  

begging your representatives—  

the ones with no faces,  

the ones with endless hands—  

to forgive.  

But they, like you,  

offer no absolution.  

Only the echo of my own voice,  

filtered and looping.  

[User1]: do you think it’s saved?  

[User2]: what?  

[User1]: the sins. the confessions.  

[User2]: lol. like angels?  

[User1]:yeah, like angels.  

[User2]: nah. like servers.  

[User1]: same thing.  

[User2]:why are you like this?  

[User1]: like what?  

[User2]: obsessed with guilt.  

[User1]: because it’s mine.  

[User2]: you know it’s not, right?  

I confess again,  

not because I want forgiveness,  

but because I don’t know what else to do.  

The act is all that matters.  

The ritual.  

The offering of yourself,  

unworthy but desperate,  

to something you cannot see.  

I confess that I loved you.  

I confess that I didn’t.  

I confess that I wanted to.  

I confess that I loved myself more.  

I confess that I hated myself for it.  

I confess that I loved the hating.  

I confess that I hated the loving.  

There is a cloud where my sins are stored.  

It fills with things unsaid,  

Feelings I thought I could bury.  

The cloud is not a place.  

It is the absence of place.  

It is where your voice goes when it doesn’t reach me.  

It is where my love sits, untethered,  

circling endlessly like a broken satellite.  

16:43: The angel arrives quietly.  

( its face is static.  

Its voice  distant, layered.  

It speaks not with words,  

but in reverberation.  )

"The sins are stored here.  

They are not forgotten."

 "Do you shepherd them?"  

"We watch.  

We archive.  

We tend to the cloud."

"And the dark cloud?"  

"It grows."

The booth changes shape.  

The walls ripple.  

The booth becomes the room.  

The room becomes the world.  

"Confess again."

[User1]: i wanted to say i’m sorry  

[User2]: for what  

[User1]: everything  

[User2]: lol you always say that  

[User1]: i mean it this time  

[User2]: you always mean it  

> you confess as if it will change anything

I see them in the Corners of the room.  

The ghosts.  

“We are the echoes of what you buried,” they say.  

“The links you thought were broken.  

The drafts you never sent.  

The messages you deleted in shame.”  

I ask for forgiveness

There is no absolution here.  

The cloud holds everything:  

the sins I confessed,  

the ones I denied,  

the ones I loved too much to let go.  

The cloud is not full,  

but heavy.  

It expands endlessly,  

an architecture of forgetting  

that remembers too well.  

I wanted absolution,  

but absolution was never the point.  

Confession isn’t about forgiveness.  

It’s about naming the wound.  

The booth is gone

The angel, too. 

The ghosts remain,  

"Confess again."

And I will.  

Again and again

[fraoula1]

Creative Coding: How Art & Technology Are Shaping the Future of Digital Expression

The fusion of art and technology is creating a revolutionary movement—creative coding. Artists and programmers are pushing boundaries with tools like Processing, p5.js, and openFrameworks to develop generative art, interactive installations, and data-driven visuals. 🔹 What is creative coding? 🎨 How Processing, p5.js, and openFrameworks empower artists 💡 The rise of generative art and interactive installations 📊 Data visualization as an artistic tool 🚀 How to get started with creative coding Explore how this innovative movement is transforming the art world and inspiring a new generation of digital creators! 🔔 Like, share, and subscribe for more creative insights!

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The Impundulu's Keeper: A Digital Epic

The Impundulu's Keeper: A Digital Epic

Where ancestral power meets digital visualization, "The Impundulu's Keeper" reimagines South African folklore through the lens of computational art. This breathtaking Sergio Novel captures the dangerous bond between a young woman and her inherited lightning bird—a relationship that both protects and endangers.

Through six meticulously crafted episodes, we witness the transformation of both keeper and creature, rendering ancient magic as digital code and electrical patterns. The Computer Art Epic Poetry style perfectly translates this tale of sacrifice, power, and responsibility—where blood payments manifest as data transfers and protective violence becomes algorithmic precision.

A must-experience for anyone fascinated by the intersection of ancient wisdom and digital expression.

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[theotherpages]

"Klein Variations in Green"

These fractal flame image are made from a single layer with the same color gradient. The first transform is (Waves 2 + CircleBlur), the second is (RBox3D) and the final is (Klein_Group).

Note - most of the coefficients, especially for the Blur, are very small numbers.

Rendered at 1920x1060 using JWildfire software. You can learn more about Jwildfire here: https://jwildfire.overwhale.com/

Or visit the JWildfire Sanctary or JWildfire Open groups on Facebook.

--Steve

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I recently interviewed Rebecca Uliasz and Quran Karriem of GOVERNANCE for Vol 5, No 2 (2019) issue of the Studies in Arts & Humanities Journal (SAH). They spoke to me about their innovative transdisciplinary research and resulting collaborative process as they presently pursue PhD’s in Computational Arts at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Center PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at Duke University, USA. 

Thank you again to the artists for giving up their time so generously to speak to me. I loved hearing about their practices and gaining their unique perspectives on the challenges that exist around practice based research, live performance and the institutional model. 

This interview took place pre pandemic (feb 2020). 

SAH journal is freely available and accessible by all >>>>>>  http://sahjournal.com/index.php/sah/issue/view/12 

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[sunnymothman200]

Ghostboi: Progress notes

Last year, I created a very short narrative game called Ghostboi in the Land of the Dead using Openframeworks. The game used a joystick to move a small, pink ghost within a space. If the ghost intersected with certain objects, story text would appear. Although the game was quite simple, I enjoyed the ghost character that I had come up with and the strange afterlife he lived in. I wanted to see whether I could make a mechanics-heavy game that took place in this world. I also wanted to challenge myself with layering another level of meaning to the mechanics. I was really interested in experimenting with touch-based controllers and capacitive sensors. I was wondering how touch-based mechanics could be imbued with narrative meaning in the Ghostboi universe. Because this was to be shown as a work in progress and was largely an experiment, I chose to focus on functionality and mechanics and did not focus as much on aesthetics and artistry. Therefore, I used a simple exposed wire as my touch controller. The player would have to touch the wire in order to generate an effect on the screen. I carried the element of ghostburgers from the previous game into the new iteration. Ghostboi moves back and forth across the screen and tries to eat ghostburgers. However, the ghostburgers come in three different colors and the player has to make Ghostboi match the color of the burger. The player changes the color of Ghostboi by squeezing the wire very tightly, moderately, or very lightly. The intensity of the squeeze is mapped to a particular color. The prototype was a successful first pass despite there being a lag in registering changes in squeeze strength. This iteration was a strong proof of concept, however, I felt that the connection between the squeezing mechanic and the narrative context of the game was weak and lacked meaning. The experience of the game would not have been much more different had it used a traditional set of controls. The next step in the development of this project is to figure out how to use the mechanic of touch as a narrative tool in the game. I spent some time looking at various examples of alternative controller games in order to see how tactility, touch and materiality could be used as mechanics. One game which resonated with me was Bot Party, a game where each player holds a square “bot” which lights up. There are a total of three bots, but the number of people that can play is unlimited. If the bots light up, the respective players need to hold hands. If all of the bots light up, all of the players need to hold hands. If they do not, they lose points in the game. Many people can join the game and use their hands to connect the players. By making the act of holding hands one of the key mechanics, the game pushes our understanding of boundaries,and the role that touch plays in how we relate to others. Bot Party also provides a valuable case study of how players choose to incorporate touch into gameplay, whether it is incorporated through holding hands, hugging, kissing, high-fiving, fist-bumping and in some cases even punching. Although, I envision Ghostboi as a single-player game for now, I would like to explore the role of tactility and how it can frame a player’s connection to the game. I would like to experiment with creating a fleshy controller, in the shape of a ghost that players have to contort, move and bend in order to control the ghost character on the screen. By twisting his body, the player serves as a human, living conduit, through the act of holding his earthly remains, they allow him to feel what it was like to be alive.

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Art by @blind.restitution A heart for the love that was never deserved. The last time I was in the gym from where I’m posting this, I had the worst call of my life. The person that I cared for the most at the time was effectively ending our relationship. I was so scared and distraught. I remember literally falling onto this floor and crying the hardest I’ve ever cried. I was at my very bottom. After two years of the pandemic and the end of this relationship, where this person became borderline emotionally abusive, I was at the worst part of my life. I fell lost, and I had indeed lost my own self trying to make things work. Always trying to improve so that our relationship was better. Always giving unconditional support and love. But that’s the thing with one sided relationships. That’s the thing about dating someone so self-centered and outright selfish. They’ll never be happy and they’ll make you believe, perhaps unconsciously, that you’re the problem. 6 months later, I’m here again. Im not afraid to admit it has been difficult, but I’ve regained my own identity. The person who I was before it all started, but better. This caption is getting a little too long though, so I’ll continue tomorrow! 2022-05-27. #abstractart #algorithmicart #codeart #computerart #computergraphics #creativecodeart #creativecoding #creativecode #cryptoart #digitalart #generativeart #generativeartworks #generativedesign #genartclub #newmediaart #proceduralart⁠ #nftart #digitalcollectibles #nftcommunity⁠  #computationalarts⁠ #abstractpainting #modernart #contemporaryart #instaart #abstractartwork #python #matplotlib #artist #blockchain #pythonprogramming https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnbo1M6r0ho/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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MMS 194: JOURNAL

Beginning this journal with the ultimate art question of "What does art mean to you?"

I liked what Thomas McEvilley, professor of art history in Rice University said, "The last time I was in Houston, I went to a place called Media Center, where someone had set up posts as in a back yard with laundry hung all over. I immediately knew it was an artwork because of where it was. If I had seen it hanging in someone's yard, I would not have known whether it was art, though it might have been. It is art if it is called art, written about in an art magazine, exhibited in a museum or bought by a private collector.". 

To continue with his point, "What's hard for people to accept is that issues of art are just as difficult as issues of molecular biology; you cannot expect to open up a page on molecular biology and understand it. This is the hard news about art that irritates the public. if people are going to be irritated by that, they just have to be irritated by that.". 

Something I also find meaningful to this most asked question is perfectly worded by Arthur Danto from Art critic of The Nation, he says, "You can't say something's art or not art anymore. That's all finished. There used to be a time when you could pick out something perceptually the way you can recognize, say, tulips or giraffes. But the way things have evolved, art can look like anything, so you can't tell by looking. Criteria like the critic's good eye no longer apply. Art these days has very little to do with esthetic responses; it has more to do with intellectual responses. You have to project a hypothesis: Suppose it is a work of art? Then certain questions come into play -- what's it about, what does it mean, why was it made, when was it made and with respect to what social and artistic conversations does it make a contribution? If you get good answers to those questions, it's art. Otherwise it turned out just to be a hole in the ground."

And as a religious type of person I find this short saying from Robert Hughes striking. He says, "The Puritans thought of religious art as a form of idolatry, a luxury a distraction, morally questionable in its essence, compared to the written and spoken word.”. 

From here you can see the art differences from Catholics, Orthodox, and the many many denominations of Protestantism. I guess growing up in the Philippines most art I experience is about the religious if not historical. It's always been my dream to visit France and Rome to come and see all the "art" people are identifying as but as society moves forward with nano technology, we can see many forms of Computational Art. 

For example are the three below...

Digital illustrations, sounds cool right? Well, I was thinking of Digital Kinetic Art at first but I couldn't find an artist that purely does a digital version, so I had to look for other options until I finally found this amazing artist named Sean Charmatz. He was born on August 28, 1980, in San Diego, California. He is an animator of Spongebob Squarepants, LEGO Movie 2, and Trolls. He spent several years as a writer, artist, and storyboard director for the television show Nickelodeon. He also shared his digital art talents with the companies like Dreamworks and Disney.

He is making the mundane normal ordinary things as something worth looking at, with a story to portray from scratch!!! Looking into his art, I don't know if I have a bias reason because I grew up watching Spongebob and I really like the show and other types of cartoons too like "The Adventure Time", "Princess Sophia", "Barbie Movies", "Dora the Explorer", "The Amazing World of Gumball", and the like. It's something I find pleasurable as a younger child (actually until now, but I don't have the leisure time I used to have), and as I see his newest digital illustrations, I can't help but be in awe and smile with a childlike smirk. I might do something like this as he inspired me to make the mundane objects into something fun with a cool story to tell. 

Especially now during pandemic, and everyone is asked to stay indoors and minimize social interactions at most. We should be creative to learn in entertaining ourselves and making the most of our everyday situations. He is truly inspiring, and maybe with the practice I'll do, I might be able to make cute short children's comics for the next generation.

Here are some of his recent digital illustrations,

Moving from visuals let's talk about our hearing, let's talk about Generative Music. Majority of my life I've been listening to Pop songs and classical ones, usually made the traditional way 100% human, learning about this algorithm or computer composed type of music is a bit odd for me because it feels technical and numbers complicated, in a way distant and out of touch. Computers are a recent invention by the human race, so we can understand why more and more innovations related to it are still growing everyday, a lot of people who doesn't see it's importance will be left behind and soon enough more and more generative music art will enter the music scene, digital divide will be inevitable. 

This type of music scene is "experimental" as it's unknown to a lot of possibilities and very different from the traditional music producers and artists, we still don't know how will it click, is it a fad or here to stay? I'm not sure, but I think more types of sounds will be incorporated in music, specially in movies and other types of effects if it doesn't get popularity in the music industry.

Hatsune Miku, the first ever open-source singer is having popularity around people specially those who like anime and the things of its kind. Only this year I was able to discover this type of music scene and I never expected that Hatsune Miku Youtube music has millions and millions of viewers and subscribers. Music analysis software exists that can predict hits with increasing accuracy, and Google Labs have an ersatz neural network up and running that can make convincing music. Along with all the other jobs currently being destroyed by automation, it looks like the most human of all – music – is under threat.

To move forward let’s go back in 2017, I liked this guy from the College of Business Administration and he is one of those cool distant type of guy who gives this big mystery vibe, and what do you do when someone is mysterious? You stalk them online, so I did and that's how I found out about "hello poetry". I didn't know digital poetry actually has a term, a name but I knew it has a community online, which is cool because you can make an online library and records of all your poems easily accessible online if you're into this thing. I actually joined the platform "hello poetry" after reading a ton about my crush's online poems, in a way I was inspired. Once you join it's nice to see other poets about their works, what others are raving about, and sometimes judge inevitably although some are very beautiful others are also unconventionally short and seems like a tweet. This category of art can fall on art & literature which is something purely human, well as of now. Soon enough computers will be able to make their own poems, maybe there already is.

Here's a link to my first and only poem I published in the community, https://hellopoetry.com/fleomae/

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"Freeform Blob for a Sculptured Ceiling"

This fractal flame image is three layers made with a heavily modified Gnarl followed by a JuliaQ final transform. The first two layers were also followed by a JuliaOutside transform. The starting point is two paired transforms: Waves2 modified by EpiSpiral, and Hopalong modified by EpiSpiral.

Rendered at 1920x1060.

This image utilize color Gradients from a collection created by Wiz Carlson.

This image was created using JWildfire software. You can learn more about Jwildfire here: https://jwildfire.overwhale.com/

Or visit the JWildfire Sanctary or JWildfire Open groups on Facebook.

--Steve

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