Bangalore, India’s Bellandur Lake keeps erupting into flames. Officials know why, but they are struggling to #stem the problem.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/bangalore-india-lake-bellandur-catches-fire-pollution/
Inside the world of India’s cyborg artists
In October 2018, New York-based Christie’s sold Edmond de Belamy, from La Famille de Belamy, a AI-created portrait for $432,500. The piece was created by an art collective called Obvious using code uploaded by a 19-year old programmer Robbie Barrat on Github and training data scraped from WikiArt.
Their thesis, published in the August 2018 edition of art journal Critical Collective, takes issue with art’s obsession with the past and proposes that artists must find ways of co-creating the future, “like the Soviet modernists of the pre-Stalin era who collectively dreamed of the future”.
https://factordaily.com/artificial-intelligence-in-art-india/