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Demoscene
Sweden added its demoscene to its national UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage.
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| 2025 |
Kisekae Set System
Kisekae UltraKiss launches online browser access to KiSS sets using Webswing server technology, enabling users to run KiSS applications directly in web browsers on the BiG KiSS Page and World KiSS Project websites.
GitHub - kisekae/UltraKiss: Kisekae UltraKiss is a full featured IDE for creating, editing and viewing online KiSS sets. FKiSS1 through FKiSS5 is fully supported. Demonstration KiSS sets, tutorials, and Help documentation is provided.
github.com
Kisekae UltraKiss - Online KiSS Viewer by William Miles
www.bronzeart.ca
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| 2025 |
Artificial intelligence art
Japanese anime television series Twins Hinahima debuts, produced and animated with significant AI assistance in image conversion and illustration.
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| 2024 |
Artificial intelligence art
Japanese film project generAIdoscope is released, co-directed by Hirotaka Adachi, Takeshi Sone, and Hiroki Yamaguchi, with all video, audio, and music created using artificial intelligence.
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| 2024 |
Artificial intelligence art
The Whitney Museum of American Art exhibits AI art from Harold Cohen's career, including re-created versions of his early robotic drawing machines.
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| 2024 |
Artificial intelligence art
Flux, a realistic image generation model developed by Black Forest Labs, was released and integrated into Grok and Le Chat chatbots.
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| 2024 |
Artificial intelligence art
Google's Gemini AI image generator was criticized for perceived racial bias in its image generations, particularly in historically inaccurate representations of white historical figures. Google subsequently apologized and took the image generator offline for updates.
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| December 2024 |
Artificial intelligence art
Grok switched to its own text-to-image model called Aurora.
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| December 2024 |
Artificial intelligence art
OpenAI released Sora, a text-to-video AI model.
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| November 2024 |
Artificial intelligence art
A group of artists and activists shared early access to OpenAI's unreleased video generation model, Sora, via Huggingface, criticizing the exploitative use of artists' work.
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| April 2024 |
Artificial intelligence art
Adam Schiff introduced the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act, which would require AI companies to submit copyrighted works in their datasets to the Register of Copyrights.
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| March 2024 |
Artificial intelligence art
Tennessee enacted the ELVIS Act, prohibiting the use of AI to mimic a musician's voice without permission.
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| 2023 |
Demoscene
Netherlands added its demoscene to its national UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage.
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| 2023 |
Aseprite
Aseprite used in the development of Pizza Tower game.
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| 2023 |
Catherine Mason
Continued exploring how artists can use cybernetics in her research and writing.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence art
Eric Millikin released 'The Dance of the Nain Rouge', a documentary film created using AI deepfake technology, which won awards at the Pisa Robot Film Festival and Absurd Film Festival.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence art
Lensa, an AI image generation app, gained popularity on TikTok while being criticized for generating problematic images that lightened skin tones, made users appear thinner, and created hypersexualized representations of women.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence art
Researchers from Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University published a paper analyzing the energy consumption and environmental impact of AI image generation models, specifically examining Stable Diffusion's XL 1.0 base model's power usage.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence art
University of Washington researchers discovered racial bias in the Stable Diffusion AI model, finding that generated images of a 'person' predominantly represented males from Europe or North America.
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| August 2023 |
Artificial intelligence art
Ideogram was released, a text-to-image AI model known for generating legible text.
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| July 2023 |
Artificial intelligence art
U.S. District Judge William Orrick was inclined to dismiss most of the lawsuits by Andersen, McKernan, and Ortiz, but allowed them to file a new complaint.
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| July 25 2023 |
R/place
The r/place 2023 experiment concluded, with the canvas being expanded six times during its duration. In the final hours, users were limited to placing greyscale tiles, and ultimately filled the entire canvas with white space.
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| July 20 2023 |
R/place
Reddit relaunched the r/place collaborative project under the tagline 'Right Place, Wrong Time', amid ongoing API controversy and community tensions. The project began with multiple protest messages against Reddit CEO Steve Huffman.
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| July 20 2023 |
R/place
The third iteration of r/place was hosted, continuing the collaborative social experiment that had become a notable internet cultural phenomenon.
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| January 2023 |
Artificial intelligence art
Artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt for using artists' images without consent.
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| 2022 |
R/place
Student Stefano Haagmans initiated a new atlas based on the same software as the 2017 version, later introducing innovative features like a timeline to view the canvas's development over time.
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| 2022 |
Aseprite
Aseprite used in the development of Haiku the Robot game.
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| 2022 |
Artificial intelligence art
Midjourney text-to-image AI was released.
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| 2022 |
Artificial intelligence art
Harvard Kennedy School researchers identified concerns about synthetic media (including AI art) potentially being used as a vector for political misinformation after studying its proliferation on the X platform.
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| 2022 |
Artificial intelligence art
CETINIC and SHE published research demonstrating how AI can be used to analyze digital art collections, providing new insights into artistic styles and influences.
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| December 2022 |
Artificial intelligence art
Users of ArtStation staged an online protest against non-consensual use of their artwork within datasets, leading to increased visibility of opt-out services.
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| September 2022 |
Pixel art
Pixelation announced the closing of its web forum and transition to Twitter, marking a significant shift in pixel art online communities.
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| September 2022 |
Artificial intelligence art
Reema Selhi of the Design and Artists Copyright Society highlighted the lack of safeguards for artists to identify and opt out of their works being used in AI training datasets.
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| August 2022 |
Artificial intelligence art
Stable Diffusion was released as a source-available text-to-image AI model.
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| May 2022 |
Artificial intelligence art
Google Brain announced Imagen and Parti text-to-image AI models.
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| April 2022 |
R/place
Popular Twitch streamer xQc (Félix Lengyel) peaked at 233,000 concurrent viewers during the r/place event, setting a personal record.
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| April 2022 |
R/place
In the final hours of the event, Reddit restricted users to placing only white pixels, gradually filling the canvas back to its original white state.
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| April 2022 |
R/place
During the experiment, over 10.5 million users made 160 million pixel changes, averaging about 2 million pixels placed per hour.
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| April 1 2022 |
R/place
The r/place experiment officially began, running for three and a half days with multiple canvas expansions and color palette updates.
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| April 1 2022 |
R/place
Reddit repeated the r/place experiment on April Fools' Day, revisiting the collaborative pixel art project from its 2017 debut.
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| March 28 2022 |
R/place
Reddit announced the reboot of r/place, signaling the return of the collaborative pixel art experiment.
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| 2021 |
Demoscene
Germany and Poland added their demoscene to their national UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage.
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| 2021 |
Aseprite
Aseprite used in the development of Loop Hero, Eastward, and Unpacking games. Also noted to have had 66 different releases between 2014 and 2021.
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| 2021 | Experimental Television Center announced its relocation to Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 2021 |
Artificial intelligence art
OpenAI released DALL-E 1, a text-to-image AI model based on large language generative pre-trained transformer models similar to GPT-3. EleutherAI also released the open-source VQGAN-CLIP based on OpenAI's CLIP model.
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| December 2021 |
Artificial intelligence art
Latent diffusion model was published, which later became the basis for Stable Diffusion.
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Pixel art, Experimental Television Center, Chaotica (software), Artificial intelligence art, Kisekae Set System, Demoscene, Aseprite, R/place & Catherine Mason, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.