Artwrld
Episodes
Ben Davis on What’s At Stake in Art Criticism Today
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re an art critic, it helps to feel that something is at stake in what you’re writing about. It sharpens the pencil, so to speak.When readin...
Filmmaker Bennett Miller on the Imperative of Artistic Innovation in the Age of AI
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Around 2015, after finishing the acclaimed movie Foxcatcher, the filmmaker Bennett Miller began working on a documentary about AI. Though it was year...
Christie’s Nicole Sales Giles on Making History With the First AI Art Auction
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you're in the art and tech space—or the art world writ large—you've probably been at least a little transfixed by the drama, controve...
Artist Stephanie Dinkins on How to Play the Long Ball With AI
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few things feel worse than being misunderstood. That’s especially the case when you’re persistently misunderstood—when, try as you might to conv...
Metalabel's Yancey Strickler on Building a Post-Crypto Haven for Artists
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A few years ago, the Kickstarter-cofounder and creative entrepreneur Yancey Strickler went down the crypto rabbit hole. In his brilliant 2019 essay “...
Tom Emrich on How to Prepare for an Augmented Art World
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2014, after Google Glass was released, the tech journalist and entrepreneur Tom Emrich wore that notoriously before-its-time AR device for nea...
NEW INC'S Salome Asega on Incubating Tomorrow's Art x Tech Superstars
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With AI, blockchain, and augmented reality gradually but inexorably changing the nature of creative work, there has probably never been a time when pl...
Spawning's Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst on How to Build Humane AI for Artists
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a twist of history that the AI revolution first reached mainstream attention via visual art, with DALL-E, and yet artists have been among the t...
a16z crypto's Chris Lyons on What Comes After NFTs
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Lyons is a visionary leader, entrepreneur, and President of Web3 Media at a16z crypto. Lyons joined a16z in 2013, first as chief of staff ...
Beeple on How His Art Reflects a Changing America
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a disruptive new administration arrives in Washington with pledges to hit the fast-forward button on Mars, AI, and crypto while simultaneously roll...
Futurist Monika Bielskyte on a Protopian Vision for Art
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Monika Bielskyte is a visionary futurist and speculative designer whose work transcends traditional boundaries of art, technology, and social theory. ...
Hans Ulrich Obrist on How Video Games Can Level-Up the Art World
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the next time you went to a museum you didn’t just look at the art on the wall—what if you activated a controller and played it? To a cer...
Kenny Schachter on Why the Art World Is Broken, and How Technology Can Fix It
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does one describe the Zelig-like art world force of nature that is Kenny Schachter?He’s a teacher, lecturer, and writer whose Artnet column—a ...
How Artist-Investor Sarah Meyohas is Shaping Her Vision for the AI-Driven Future
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the reasons the intersection of art and technology is such an exciting space to be is its sheer vivifying complexity, with each side of the dya...
How Crypto Artist Sam Spratt Is Building a New Kind of Gamified Art World
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the challenges of spotting an original artist is that we tend to judge new art based on the criteria of the past—causing a major blind spot w...
Google DeepMind's Matthieu Lorrain on the 'Liquid' Future of Art
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthieu Lorrain is a creative and technology pioneer in the fields of digital experiences & content innovation.​He is currently Creative Lead, ...
How Refik Anadol Is Writing the Next Chapter of Art History
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since AI broke into public consciousness with ChatGPT's launch in November 2022—just two years ago—the race for artificial general intelligen...
How Venture Capitalist Ryan Zurrer Is Fueling a Digital Art Revolution
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Zurrer is the founder of Dialectic, a Swiss-based fund focused on alternative assets.​Ryan was a very early investor in some of the best-perfor...
Cathy Hackl on How AI and Mixed Reality Will Spark the Next Renaissance
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
These days, as artificial intelligence begins to spread through society, it’s impossible not to sense that something fundamental about our reality i...
Artist Anicka Yi on Creating Her Immortal AI Twin
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The artist Anicka Yi is a human being, but she's not stuck up about it. In fact, she's perhaps most at home collaborating with non-human ent...
How Tech Could Transform the Art Industry with Marc Glimcher CEO of Pace Gallery
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the thorniest conundrums of the art world—and arguably the greatest business opportunity—lies in the mismatch between the art audience and ...
Matr Labs's Ben Tritt on Why Today's Artists Need Robots
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will the artists of the future be cyborgs? Actually, some artists already are—only instead of having AI implants in their brains and robotic arms by...
Auriea Harvey on What Ancient Magic Has to Do With Digital Art
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
​The pioneering digital artist Auriea Harvey doesn’t really want to talk about the future these days—she’s much more interesting in talking ab...
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy on the True Value of Digital Art
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if the art market—what if the whole underlying foundation of the art ecosystem—was a buggy string of legacy code? And, what if you could fix ...