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Art exhibition preview: Ben Bloch’s Make Me a Landscape, Do Not Include Any Sky
A Utah artist feeds his own work into an A.I. program, and plays with the results.
The role of artificial intelligence in the arts has become a hot-button topic, with many artists resisting the use of their work in training large-language models. Ben Bloch has taken a different approach—to the extent of building an entire exhibition out of the result of deliberately training an A.
I. program on his own paintings. Make Me a Landscape, Do Not Include Any Sky marks a collaboration between Bloch, a visual artist based in Utah and Montana, and programmer/software entrepreneur John Brownell.
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