AI Art Community Newsletter

Warhol & The Weekend

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A hearty hello & welcome to the first installment of the AI Art Community newsletter! We hope to provide a bit of levity and goodness to your inbox each week in the form of news, artist spotlights, games and memes.

Who’s writing?

Hiya, I’m Jackson (LinkedIn, do connect!). Every day of the last 8 months, I’ve been running the daily theme on Instagram. At first through our now-banned ai.art.community (story for another day), then through these lovely underscores. I also helped give birth to Ultron, our bot that runs the action in Discord.

Before this, I built Frame 240 to connect 3D artists with VFX studios. I crave an internet where art, animation & creativity are more in focus. I feel lucky to know you all and be among such a merry band of misfits in our fast-changing world.

Who are YOU?

I’d love to read a bit about you! Who are you, what do you do outside of AI, what gets you excited, etc. If you’re keen, join me for a written mini interview.

Now, for your regularly scheduled programming…

Weekly theme

Introducing: the most casual, laid back, exploratory, tea-sipping weekly theme event on the web. It would be out of character and borderline criminal for us NOT to host a weekly theme here, so… what’s done is done. We’re doing it.

You have until Wednesday May 3 (letter #2) to explore the intricate world of bugs 🐛🐞🐝. Submit here: https://forms.gle/mN1F5hDaEsFquvpd6.

Kudos to KirstyAI for the theme suggestion.

AI Art Tournament

Today in Discord we announced our third AI Art Collab Tournament. A March Madness-style art competition, in which teams of 2-3 compete for a hand-prompted digital trophy, a small cash prize, IG collab posts, and internet fame.

Join with or without a team: https://forms.gle/ikM7wFPpggzQabTz7

Get hip to the news

Thank you to Barbara Chira & cmgj for scouring the internet for juicy news in AI. This week…

Our very own TroplandUniverse was featured in LA Weekly! Josh is a community Patron Saint & writing a book about a new, fictional world called the Tropland Forest. DM him if you want to team up.
AI in music: Grimes lets anyone replicate her voice, Kanye + Gotye AI mashup (🔥), anonymous TikToker released a massively viral AI-generated Kanye + The Weekend song, which has since been taken down for copyright. Here’s a fascinating process video
ChatGPT + Boston Dynamics = walking, talking robotic puppy
The issue of image copyright remains entirely unresolved. Andy Warhol & Generative AI Copyright

Artist spotlights

I am always amazed at how global we are, flung far and wide across earth. And at the varied lives we lead outside of AI. Below, a pHD, musician, Anthropologist, founder, and more…

Each week, we’ll feature a handful of subscribers. Want a feature? Just reply!