We had a fantastic evening of conversation around Art & AI on April 24th, inspired by the recent exhibition of works by Botto, "a decentralized autonomous artist" designed to create crowd-sourced, generative works of art.

The evening followed a simple structure: Nathan Bayliss (from last year's "Navigating the Not Yet") started us off with a short introduction looking at AI-generated work and posed the question "But Is It Art?" From there we opened the room to discuss and it was a lively one!  There was great crowd in attendance and they brought a depth of knowledge and interest that made for one of the best evenings we've had.

Our aim was to generate an interesting conversation and hear what others think about this new world of art-making and we certainly did that.

Below are some links to essays, videos and artwork that helped us along the way:

Verse.work - Botto's work & the eye-watering sums it's selling for.

Verse.work - What's really going on behind the scenes.

Itsnicethat.com - Ann Ridler discusses her work.

Jake Elwes - Two AI's in conversation.

Peel Slowly and See - The banana on the wall.

Moma.org - Joseph Kosuth's chairs.

Moma.org - Yoko Ono's instructions for paintings.

Newsocialist.org - AI aesthetics and fascism.

Honest-broker.com - AI Art and the Aesthestics of Slop

Alignment Faking - A lengthy but interesting panel discussion on AI learning to lie.

AI and the Arts - How AI is changing creative work.