In 2017, Emily Olson, a stay-at-home mom based in Boulder, Colorado, started selling prints and custom-made puppy portraits on Etsy. Her watercolors were simple and relatively cheap—images of saucer-eyed corgis and malamutes in mini-tuxes, which she sold for $75 to $300 each—but dog owners adored them: “They were a labor of love,” she says. In … Read more
“I think we are literally in a renaissance,” says the artist Refik Anadol, in a characteristically optimistic comment, when asked how he sees this moment in art history, with artificial intelligence ascendant yet controversial as a medium. “We just don’t have a name for it yet.” Anadol, known for technological installations that probe the relationship … Read more
As public backlash to the seeming omnipresence of artificial intelligence intensifies, the collective quest to weed out—and reject—the telltale signs of its use continues. One of the first casualties, to my dismay, was em dashes—which are a great, and very human form of punctuation, by the way! There’s also the “rule of threes,” which is … Read more
Holograms are a mainstay of science fiction, popping up across the great expanses of Star Wars, Star Trek, hello,and The Expanse. If a story is set in the future, or in space, it’s probably got a hologram in it. Unfortunately, this is less the case in real life, despite many tech companies eager to make … Read more