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Luba Elliott @elluba.bsky.social · Jun 9

A little preview of our @cvprconference.bsky.social AI art gallery on @lerandomart.bsky.social 👀

We will premiere @drib.net 's crazy flower windmill sculpture - what an honour 🥰🌻

Read my interview with three of the gallery artists: bit.ly/3SKDaNL

#CVPR2025 #creativeAI

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · Jun 2

I wrote this piece for @lerandomart.bsky.social about @nopattern.bsky.social. Making good art with generative AI is nearly impossible, which is why I had to take a closer look at how Chuck Anderson is pulling it off. www.lerandom.art/editorial/me...

Meandering with AI

Consumer-grade text-to-image tools make it easy to skip the arduous work of artistic practice and jump straight to a polished result. Chuck Anderson’s Imagined Wreckage shows how these tools instead c...

www.lerandom.art

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Monk Antony @monkantony.bsky.social · May 16

👏 👏 thank you!

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Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · May 16

We are beyond thrilled to include Luba’s voice in our editorials

Luba Elliott @elluba.bsky.social · May 14

I wrote a piece on 'Object Misrecognition' for @lerandomart.bsky.social @monkantony.bsky.social 🥳

feat artists
@shinseungback.bsky.social @jessica-tucker.bsky.social @mmariansky.bsky.social
& more

Read here: bit.ly/3RZP1Hj

#creativeAI #AIart

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Luba Elliott @elluba.bsky.social · May 14

I wrote a piece on 'Object Misrecognition' for @lerandomart.bsky.social @monkantony.bsky.social 🥳

feat artists
@shinseungback.bsky.social @jessica-tucker.bsky.social @mmariansky.bsky.social
& more

Read here: bit.ly/3RZP1Hj

#creativeAI #AIart

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Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Apr 29

“Meandering with AI" by Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com🔻

Mentions: @quasimondo.bsky.social @hollyherndon.bsky.social @memoakten.bsky.social @lupefiasco.bsky.social

lerandom.art/editorial/meandering-with-ai

Meandering with AI

Consumer-grade text-to-image tools make it easy to skip the arduous work of artistic practice and jump straight to a polished result. Chuck Anderson’s Imagined Wreckage shows how these tools instead c...

lerandom.art

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Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Apr 29

“Meandering with AI" by Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com

Buist shows how Chuck Anderson @nopattern.bsky.social reclaims text-to-image AI, folding it into a meandering practice

📖 lerandom.art/editorial/meandering-with-ai 📖

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Monk Antony @monkantony.bsky.social · Feb 19

AI has been on my mind a lot lately

its underlying ideas

how it can be framed—within a historical and conceptual context—to make it more resilient to attack

here it goes👇

Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Feb 19

“Neural Unconscious" by Peter Bauman @monkantony.bsky.social

From hidden details to AI co-creation—how technology has always changed the way artists see, create and think

📖: lerandom.art/editorial/neural-unconscious

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Feb 22

“Thinking of intelligence and creativity as explorable landscapes clarifies terms like latent space while linking them to art history’s traditions of pictorial and output spaces.“

Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Feb 19

“Neural Unconscious" by Peter Bauman @monkantony.bsky.social

From hidden details to AI co-creation—how technology has always changed the way artists see, create and think

📖: lerandom.art/editorial/neural-unconscious

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Monk Antony @monkantony.bsky.social · Feb 19

AI has been on my mind a lot lately

its underlying ideas

how it can be framed—within a historical and conceptual context—to make it more resilient to attack

here it goes👇

Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Feb 19

“Neural Unconscious" by Peter Bauman @monkantony.bsky.social

From hidden details to AI co-creation—how technology has always changed the way artists see, create and think

📖: lerandom.art/editorial/neural-unconscious

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Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Feb 19

“Neural Unconscious" by Peter Bauman @monkantony.bsky.social

From hidden details to AI co-creation—how technology has always changed the way artists see, create and think

📖: lerandom.art/editorial/neural-unconscious

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Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Feb 18

“Neural Unconscious” by Peter Bauman @monkantony.bsky.social Wednesday

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Monk Antony @monkantony.bsky.social · Feb 18

With AI art taking center stage this week

I write about art as the navigation of space—per computational philosopher @cavvia.bsky.social—linking historical exploration from pictorial to output to latent

+ the unconscious forces that drive them

Coming soon to @lerandomart.bsky.social

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LoVid @lovidlovid.bsky.social · Feb 15

On February 15, a wonderful exhibition curated by @lerandomart.bsky.social
opens at @artblocks.bsky.social
Gallery, Marfa.

“Algorithmic Generations” explores the evolution of procedural generative art through the decades, tracing its growth from early pioneers to today’s contemporaries.

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FEED art @feedart.bsky.social · Feb 12

#MediaArt

Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Feb 12

“Barbara London on New Territory” by Peter Bauman @monkantony.bsky.social

The famed curator shares her experience institutionalizing a form at MoMA

📖: lerandom.art/editorial/barbara-london-on-new-territory

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cafeGIANT.art @cafegiant.bsky.social · Feb 12

#MediaArt

Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Jan 7

Generative Art Starter 🟢

A graphic to get started with generative art
• Overview
• Artists
• History
• Collecting
• Resources

PDF with links:
bit.ly/LR_GenerativeArtStarter

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Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Feb 12

“Barbara London on New Territory” by Peter Bauman @monkantony.bsky.social

The famed curator shares her experience institutionalizing a form at MoMA

📖: lerandom.art/editorial/barbara-london-on-new-territory

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Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Jan 30

“Kim Asendorf on Elegant Symbiosis" by Peter Bauman @monkantony.bsky.social with @kimasendorf.com

The artist discusses balancing code, blockchains and culture in PXL DEX

📖: lerandom.art/editorial/kim-asendorf-on-elegant-symbiosis

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Monk Antony @monkantony.bsky.social · Jan 30

Thrilled to be invited as a juror for the 2025-26 SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award

Previous winners—Molnár, Cohen, Kawaguchi—represent a who's who of digital art history.

Encouraging and welcome to see SIGGRAPH engage more broadly 🤝

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Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Jan 21

"Rafaël Rozendaal on a Liquid Canvas" by Peter Bauman @monkantony.bsky.social

The artist reflects on his MoMA exhibition + lightness and accessibility in the digital

📖: lerandom.art/editorial/rafael-rozendaal-on-a-liquid-canvas

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Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Jan 7

Generative Art Starter 🟢

A graphic to get started with generative art
• Overview
• Artists
• History
• Collecting
• Resources

PDF with links:
bit.ly/LR_GenerativeArtStarter

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celadoor @celadoor.bsky.social · Jan 7

@lerandomart.bsky.social posted this useful poster

“Generative Art Starter
A graphic to get started with generative art
• Overview
• Artists
• History
• Collecting
• Resources”

For the PDF t.co/8KGB0i4ouN

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Monk Antony @monkantony.bsky.social · Dec 18

Our final written piece of 2024 at @lerandomart.bsky.social 🔻

Le Random @lerandomart.bsky.social · Dec 18

“Inside Qubibi’s Shinjuku Studio" by Peter Bauman @monkantony.bsky.social with qubibi & thefunnyguys

A glimpse into the quiet center of the artist's practice🔻

📖 lerandom.art/editorial/inside-qubibis-shinjuku-studio

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