AI’s capabilities to create visual art, music, stories, and videos are improving exponentially. AI can teach innovative new strategies, unknown to humans, in games such as chess or Go and promises to revolutionize human problem-solving. These advances motivate important questions relating to AI and Human Creativity. Join us at the 2024 Mellichamp Mind and Machine…
Written by Gretchen Andrew, published on March 15, 2024 on TheArtNewspaper.com. In a 2014 bombshell, Facebook (now Meta) made a bold near $3 billion bet on the future, acquiring Oculus VR, a fledgling company pioneering virtual reality (VR) headsets. This audacious move, while initially met with skepticism, positioned Facebook at the forefront of a potentially…
CFP Submission Deadline: May 15, 2024 The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, invites submissions for the inaugural Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference, to be hosted at the University of London from 2-4 April 2025 in collaboration with colleagues from Aarhus University, the British Library, and the…
Proposal Submission Deadline: Monday, April 22, 2024 The Sixteenth Century Society (SCS) is pleased to invite proposals for individual presentations, panels, and roundtables for its annual conference, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2024, at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. Please note that this conference will begin on Thursday morning and end on Saturday evening.…
Written by Gareth Harris, published on March 11, 2024 on TheArtNewspaper.com. A Swiss company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to authenticate Old Master paintings says that a portrait of a peasant woman is likely to have been made by one of the greatest artists of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer. The latest claim fuels the…
Manuscript submission deadline: June 20, 2024Publication: December 2024Thematic editor of the issue: Dr Emilia Kiecko Representations in the form of drawings, infographics, images, models, films and other visualisations seem almost indispensable in the production and transmission of knowledge. They give the impression of being universal tools that help objectively ‘embody’ any data and ideas and…