Curation is an essential part of supporting Artists and the Art industry. Curation is the process of selecting, organizing and presenting art. While it is important to buy what you like, curators play an important role in providing context and authentication. With artists being empowered like never before to create art at scales never seen before, curation must also scale to serve the artists and owners of these pieces.
Take the below example. One of the images below is from the Tyler Hobbs Collection: Fidenza and has a market valuation over $80,000. The other is a derivative that has a neglible market value? The job of curation is to support buyers in authenticating work and also providing the space for the market to be properly informed.
The rapid creation of new Generative and A.I. Art has marked these as burgeoning art forms that provide a unique medium for artists and technologists. Generative Artists release new pieces that range from individual pieces to long form collections that can have thousands of pieces. A.I. provides artists to create unique digital pieces in minutes and reduces the barrier of entry for the creation of rendering fantastic pieces. The rate of digital art is rapidly increasing. However, there are still pieces and artists that still stand apart. These reasons range from the theme, the context, the method of creation, the artist, the timing and more. Separating and understanding these narratives and providing context to potential owners is why curation is vital.
To meet the issue of scale, community education is vital. Thus, one of the goals of the RITHM Art Content will be to demystify Algorithmic Art such as A.I. and Generative Art. Make sure to follow as we delve into these very distinct approaches to the creation and support of this fantastic art form.
Generative Art is created by a very clear routine or program that operates according to the design of the programmer or artists.
A.I. art is often created using Stable Diffusion and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Much of A.I. art takes prompts and constructs the piece through its underlying algorithm, training data and a variety of other parameters that impact resolution, size and fidelity.
Thus, as more art work is generated in these spaces it is important to develop a methodology for curating and assessing these pieces to best honor and recognize the work taken to craft these works.
During the curatorship series we will discuss how decentralized technologies like IPFS (interplanetary file system) for content based file system and decentralized cryptocurrency networks like Avalanche provide some of the tools necessary for curation. We will also discuss the missing pieces of curation and current issues.