Recap — Christies Art+TechSummit 2019 – Pixura
On the 25th of June in New York City, Christie’s held their second Art+Tech summit with support from global brands including Hyundai and Gucci. The 2019 summit centered on “The A.I. Revolution,” gathering artists, curators, collectors, industry insiders and creatives from around the world to discuss the convergence of artificial intelligence and art.
Entering the Christie’s building, digital artworks by Hyundai greeted the visitors, presenting the attendees with a taste of the topic to be discussed. In addition to the digital and tech based pieces featured by Hyundai, Yugen, a digital art piece by artist and filmmaker Martha Fiennes, displayed a rendering of future, technology, and nature at the bottom of the staircase leading up to the conference.
Here’s a few stills from Martha’s piece titled “Yugen”:
Gideon Lichfield, of the MIT Technology Review opened the summit with a briefing on A.I., which then led into Jason Bailey of Artnome’s discussion on A.I. as a tool for the organization and categorization of art. Dr. Ahmed Elgammel of Artrendex discussed his work on utilizing A.I. to detect forgery and better understand the art market, and panels on the future of the museum and machine learning in artistic practice discussed A.I. as a tool to build on the human experience of art, opening up the conversation to the legal implications, ethics, and future of A.I. in the art world.
The very first artist to tokenize on SuperRare, Robbie Barrat, discussed his creative process and his experience with open source code, which both instructed his work and led to its counterfeiting. Sharing his passion for creating, Robbie additionally discussed his hatred for the printing of digital works, informing the collectors in the room of his belief that the display of digital art should remain in its digital origin (PREACH Robbie PREACH ??).
The speakers presented a shift in values within the art market, putting forward principles that further the public benefit and accessibility of art. Emphasizing transparency, adaptation, learning, and sharing, the summit asked new questions about the ethics, display, and purchasing of art, relying more so on the eye of the general population than on the opinion of an established museum or collector.
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Published at Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:16:39 +0000
