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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · 2d

Reading this article made me feel better — I'm not alone 🙂.
I hope more artists will read it!

Catapult - New Munchies Art Club @catapultart.bsky.social · 3d

Why Are You on Instagram as an Artist? An Honest, Realistic Look for Artists! A new editorial series about Scoial Media, Digital presents and social media in general.

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Why Are You on Instagram as an Artist? An Honest, Realistic Look for Artists!

Instagram is a $71 billion ad machine that doesn't owe you anything. You're creating free content for Meta's shareholders while calling it your 'art career.' Here's what nobody tells you: most artists...

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · 13d

Interesting. We're 70 years later and it's still a struggle to become and remain a pro! With some perseverance lot of us get a little hype, wich fade out so fast... It's like there is a planned obsolescence for artists 🥲

Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · 13d

Next studio visit !

Friday 3rd October

🙂

Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · 13d

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · 26d

If you're in Paris, don’t miss The world through AI at Jeu de Paume !

The exhibition is brillant and goes beyond generative AI hype.

Special mention to Calculating Empire by Crawford & Joler — a mind-blowing map of technological power.

#art #AI #Paris @katecrawford.bsky.social

A close-up of Calculating Empire by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler. The map’s structure is meticulously organized, yet as you begin to read, it feels like navigating a labyrinth of information — where the exit (or perhaps the origin?) seems to be our own contemporary reality.

A bigger view but still detail. The artwork is huge an takes an entire room

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jul 10

The starting point of my mural project : a reference to “Saint John the Baptist” by Hieronymus Bosch.

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Indeed, in the foreground of Bosch’s painting, there’s a curious, fantastical, overgrown—and surely diabolical—plant. In the composition, it occupies a space as prominent as the saint himself. As is often the case with Bosch, the plant is an aggregation of elements drawn from multiple species.

To my knowledge, this is the only instance in classical painting where such use of a plant figure occurs—and one of the rare examples of “base” vegetation (meaning: plants deemed unproductive for food or ornamental purposes) being depicted.

If you know of any other examples, feel free to share them in the comments!

Saint John the Baptist, painting by Hieronymus Bosh

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jul 8

Overview of my mural project

The plants scale matches that of real street plants...
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Overview of the mural project “Incultures.”
The plants are painted in acrylic using a technique reminiscent of watercolor.
Their scale matches that of real street plants growing in the space between the sidewalk and the wall.
As a result, the painting process takes place sitting directly on the ground, kneeling, or sometimes even lying down… a rather athletic painting experience!

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jul 7

Pixelfed is server-based, just like your email. You can send a message from Gmail to Hotmail because both use the same protocol. It's the same idea, but for social media.

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jul 7

"Incultures (7)"

A story of AI and plants

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Incultures is a mural project depicting invasive plants generated by artificial intelligence. These plants appear "bugged" because AI struggles to accurately generate them, revealing the limitations of the technology.
This failure mirrors our own selective and incomplete perception of the living world. Painted at the base of the walls—like the weeds that thrive in urban spaces—these plants challenge both our ways of seeing and the growing influence of AI in visual culture.

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jul 6

You're welcome ! I'm very glad about this kind of news ! To become an attractive place, Pixelfed need such "big fishes".

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jul 6

Pixelfed is growing and improving, but not as fast as Bluesky. For now, it's still a small trend. I still prefer it to Instagram because there are no ads and no algorithm telling me what I should find interesting 🙂

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thx! I didn't know about their short lifespan.

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jul 6

Has someone ever tried one of those platforms ? If yes I'm curious of your feed-back !

Catapult - New Munchies Art Club @catapultart.bsky.social · Jul 6

Where should artists submit?
We just published a new piece on indie platforms that still matter — from CAD to KubaParis, from quiet curation to cheeky chaos.
For artists, galleries, and anyone tired of chasing the algorithm.
Includes scores. No fluff.

#artplatforms #artistsshouldknow #curated

11 Art Platforms Artists Should Know in 2025

Discover 11 curated art platforms where artists can submit their work, get featured, and be seen by curators, collectors, and real art audiences. From Artviewer to Munchies Art Club, here’s who’s stil...

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jul 2

A chosen fragment of a landscape glimpsed at 90 km/h, where so many once paused...

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Painting by Aurel Porté depicting a roadside embankment. The site is scattered with large blocks that evoke strange minimalist sculptures or a modern ruin. These blocks are in fact intended to prevent the settlement of the poorest populations. They are quite common in the Paris region. Here, they are rendered in a vivid blue to emphasize the surreal quality of the scene.

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jul 1

I find there is a particular resonance between places dedicated to preserving nature—such as greenhouses and aquariums—and works of art...

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Perhaps because, like art, they shelter a small fragment of reality, seeking to present it authentically and protect it from external disturbances. Or perhaps because both the greenhouse and the artwork reproduce what we call nature so ideally that they generate a paradoxical energy—an artifice devoted to negating itself, as the very notion of "natural" stands in opposition to "artificial."

However, in the context of ecological disaster, the image of the greenhouse invites further reflection: Will there always be a place for the living world we know outside of a glass dome? What is the meaning of celebrating life through images when life itself might not survive them?

So yes, perhaps art is also, in a way, a small, separate ecosystem—where rarity is cultivated and the fragility of the outside world is gathered, calling for care before it is too late.

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jul 1

Vielen Dank Rainer !

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jun 30

A painting that plays on our ignorance of living things, presenting a few wild plants gathered from a roadside embankment as if they were part of a jungle...

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This project is not just about giving visibility to an overlooked aspect of the plant world, which is often confined to botanical illustrations. Above all, it is a way to bring enchantment to everyday life at little cost—summoning visions of elsewhere from right here and affirming the porous nature of our world, where the exotic and the ordinary are one and the same, with the former merely being a fleeting moment of the latter.

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jun 26

"Incultures (6)"

A story of AI and plants

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#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #painting #bskyart #artsky #visualart #figurativeart #artcontemporain #art #malerei #peinturecontemporaine #wildplants #weeds #sidewalkplants #ai

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jun 25

"Incultures (5)"

A story of AI and plants

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#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #painting #bskyart #artsky #visualart #figurativeart #artcontemporain #art #malerei #peinturecontemporaine #wildplants #weeds #sidewalkplants #ai

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jun 24

"Incultures (4)"

A story of AI and plants

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#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #painting #bskyart #artsky #visualart #figurativeart #artcontemporain #art #malerei #peinturecontemporaine #wildplants #weeds #sidewalkplants #ai #contemporarytuesday

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jun 23

A single stroke—coloring in, filling the void— And reality tilts into its own representation...

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A single stroke—coloring in, filling the void— And reality tilts into its own representation.

An instant sealed in concrete, while through the media drifts the image Strange, rare, parodic— A depiction of labor without the laborer.

Alberti’s window-frame, or Butades’ wall-painting— A question of absence. Who moves the frame?

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jun 20

Untitled (2024, concrete block)

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It is common in French suburbs to find entire streets punctuated by poles mounted on temporary concrete bases, providing electricity and telephone service to residents. These blocks, mainly used near construction sites, are part of the visual grammar of urban areas undergoing renovation. It is difficult for an artist not to see them as a minimalist sculpture that has escaped from a museum or as a symbolic form—a contemporary totem—embodying the ongoing transformation.

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CreepyPasta Ben @pastaben.bsky.social · Jun 17

thanks to this article i learned i've been using "hot medium" and "cold medium" completely wrong artreview.com/hito-steyerl...

Hito Steyerl’s ‘Medium Hot’: The Age of Slop

Steyerl challenges us to recognise the vast scale of AI’s ubiquity and also to realise its ‘artificial stupidity’

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House of Harley @houseofharley.bsky.social · Jun 18

Identity politics v class politics in the art world…
#art #politics #identitypolitics #class

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Who’s Afraid of Identity?

After Trump’s second coming, the artworld will have to work hard to regain its legitimacy

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Aurel Porté @aurel-porte.bsky.social · Jun 18

The representatives came to mark the beginning.
The first stone was laid.
The costumes, the roles—assumed.
The postures, the photos—taken.
"To build is, first, to stage," they say.

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Painting by Aurel Porté depicting elected officials at the inauguration of a major public works project. The officials are dressed in formal suits, topped with yellow safety vests. In the foreground, a wall made of the first stones of the future structure stands prominently. The painting is done on a plasterboard panel prepared with tile adhesive, creating a highly textured effect.

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