Founder of https://infinidream.ai, Pioneering AI artist and Engineering Leader. Father of three teens in NYC. https://Draves.AI 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
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Brilliant sleuthing Sherlock! You found a gap in my art output. Does that mean I'm not an artist? Does that mean 20 years of work doesn't exist? That's the accusation leveled at me and that's what I'm arguing against. You might think what I do is bad art but absurd and pathetic to say it's not art.
Thanks I appreciate it! yes i do more than a casual or naive prompter. But the fundamentals are more important: the algorithms and the intentions. Code and AI are media and can be used to make great art, bad art, or nonsense. Let's enable creativity in all its forms, instead of gatekeeping "art".
Thanks! Indeed in 2008 I put art on the back burner, went back to a full-time job and had 3 kids. The good news is the jobs have been amazing & i've learned so much & worked with so many great people. The kids came out pretty good too ;)
Cool -- so much great overlap between art and advertising. what about this AI art? us.mullenlowe.com/work/the-sho... is that trash too?
i'm getting bored. if you come up with some new material, i might reply. good luck!
i could show you but instead i choose to demonstrate how ignorant and lazy you are, which further discredits your point. thank you! btw, not all art is made by drawing!
even an idiot could find the prizes i've won. was there an argument to counter? i didn't see it, just name-calling.
LoL can't be bothered to do any research before shooting off your mouth.
Your unhinged attack just discredits your opinion. "don't speak to me"? sounds like you have control issues. have you considered therapy?
why should anyone believe you instead of him?
Is that all you got? LoL
You cared enough to write a nastygram denying my identity, but not enough to learn who i am and what i do. You are just discrediting your opinion and your point. Thank you for making my job so easy!
Gen AI and LLMs are just more computers and more code. My AI work of today is of the same project as what we were doing in the 90s (and before). Participatory and Open Source FTW! Sorry you don't like it. You are welcome to your opinion, but even if you call it bad art, it's still art.
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not mutually exclusive: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropr... but not how it works anyway. all artists learn from and refer to their culture of origin.
apparently you have no idea what i do and you didn't bother to check.
totally proud. maybe you just don't know much about it?
what kind of gatekeeper of the definition of "art" are you? apparently Ai Weiwei disagrees: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
oh no! please call the collectors! call the museums! call the foundations that gave me the prizes. you must understand art better than all of them...
This AI artist begs to differ.
seeking AI artists for collaboration. DM me!
The idea that President can negotiate/dictate bilateral “deals” by using the full force of the federal government to punish and humiliate his perceived enemies goes against the whole idea of the rule of law. That should be the story, rather than normalizing this authoritarian behavior.
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An honor to have been on the team. Reading and seeing the names brings back memories of good times and the good people who made it happen. Thanks Reardon and Patrick! Can't wait to try out the real thing!
This EMG tech to provides high bandwidth and low latency intentional control with privacy, and is ideal for mobile devices like phones and AR glasses, when you are away from a keyboard and mouse.
A taste of the what's to come. Nature publication on a wristband that can read and decode the electrical signals that control your hand: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
These kinds of AI generations are my favorite. Abstract, yet biological. Metallic highlights. #Synthart #AIvideo #AnimateDiff 2023
Seeing Powers of 10 is a key formative memory for me. At the NASA museum in Washington DC at about age 11 if I remember correctly.
Oh my God! my cult favorite movie.
Watch out for right-wing provocateurs and false flags used to stir up violence.
This post got 10x more likes than my others. Guess I missed my calling...
The city should set up rows of porta potties all over the place + staff them with police if necessary. The lack of bathrooms is a health hazard.
Trump won't commit to the constitution. What is MAGA fighting for?
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
Hands Off! #handsoff2025 nyc
In all major US cities, not just NYC!
We'll be protesting Trump and his illegal power grab this Saturday at Bryant Park in NYC. Join Us!
Thank you. Wait till you see what's coming next...
Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.
awesome. wish it could go on forever 😁
Fascinating and promising
Beautiful! Can you make an infinite animation?
seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism
Yep… this is exactly how the US got Einstein.
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"
In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Plus they conferred degrees on Vance, Hawley, DeSantis, Ramaswamy, Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh... Was the coup born in New Haven? Is this a pattern or anecdotal?
Yes. And Yale's participation!
The director mode in @hailuoai.bsky.social gives you control like no other AI tool. Here's some videos I made and the prompts used
Cool! Reminds me of D'Arcy Thompson's normalizing conformal mappings in "On Growth and Form" but butterflies much prettier than fish!
funny post but not a scam in the same way so the feelings are different.
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@rezaali.bsky.social
I feel like I’m missing something but what am I missing I am in superposition My body is an animal alive in the present But my mind is trapped in the future+the past I dance to a pulse inside me that did not begin w me _ SUPERRADIANCE @memoakten.bsky.social @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net
Have a Wonderful Night 💙 #aiart #aiartcommunity #aiartwork #aiartist #digitalart #bluesky #aiartvideo #filmora #shotcut
I'm most intrigued by the speculation that o3 uses AlphaGo-style tree search. As a lifelong go player, it was that breakthrough that made me update my priors and accept near-term AGI and ASI. Like from 50 years to 20 (starting in 2017).
Great explanation and details of #OpenAI o3's ARC-AGI benchmark results. See through the hype to the real progress.
Would love to connect with more AI video creators here
coool, added! love the longer format on your youtube channel.
Love it. Don't forget Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers"!
and yes "nudibranch" was in the prompt :)
Cool, added. Keep the videos coming, Santa and otherwise.
Even though I'm on deadline I couldn't resist playing with Sora, finally released from #openai. With just a few tries i was getting somewhere but then somehow i could not further remix this. QP with your #sora creations!
done. love the flowers!
dry eyes
me too! i'm collecting accounts that post videos: bsky.app/starter-pack... who are we missing? please chime in...
#Sora is here and I did a quick #image2video showdown vs Runway, KLING AI and Luma AI. I liked all models for various reasons, but what was your favorite? www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY71... #aivideo #aiartcommunity #genai
Particles of light, all happy and bright... #AiArt #AiShorts
Thank you for all the great columns, both wonky and political.
Electric Sheep projected in the medina in Tunisia at the Interference light art show (2018.intunis.net/en/)
This is probably the coolest animation of molecular machinery I've ever seen www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe-8...
Work in process!
This summer I taught a class for artists to learn ComfyUI. I'm finally releasing the recordings for public consumption. Each week I'll release a new lesson. Week 1 walks thru the very basics of Comfy: youtu.be/NoB1E3nZnUk
Note the recent addition to my profile: "Getting ready to share after a year in stealth mode. Watch this space!" sorry for recycling old content! just rebooting my timeline here, and introducing myself to this new social network. the fresh stuff is coming! :)
"a special shoutout to [Scott Draves] and Erik Reckase for their work on the 'Fractal Flame Algorithm'. They did the math behind all these images over 20 years go! Their paper is a milestone for me." You are very welcome Péter, Etherium team lead (screencap from bird site) @karalabe.bsky.social
Learn more about the Flame Algorithm: flam3.com and scottdraves.com/flame.html and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal... links are kind of dated :/
"Artworks that shaped the history of digital art. Scott Draves, Flame #149, 1993" Thank you Art Scape (from the bird site)!
Add me please!
"This is where the history of AI-art-as-we-know-it begins." Thank you Le Random for the kind review. Just one step in the history of generative art being told on their site: lerandom.art
Honored to participate in a Stanford HAI symposium on "Creativity in the Age of AI". Was a pleasure to meet old friends and make new ones. I learned so much and left in awe of the vibrancy of the field. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIW_... @stanfordhai.bsky.social
I'm going to repost some stuff from threads and twitter/X here to get my timeline started.
Welcome back! I was just baffled by your absence...
I was just trying to find him here! Thanks for explaining
2001! It doesn't have a pace of a modern action film, but still one of the greatest.
Ghost in the Shell 2017 remake
@mariuswatz.bsky.social work at Buffalo art museum show "Electric Op" along with greats like Lillian Schwartz, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, @lovidlovid.bsky.social and more.
All right, I got my verified custom domain handle. So easy and the first verification program that really makes sense. Thank you @bsky.app! photo: The Electric Sheep, an infinite generative animation and one of the first AI artworks, on tour with Skrillex, Diplo, Grimes, Pretty Lights, etc. 2012.
I'd be psyched if there were a list focused on just NSFW gen AI... You should start it!
Gold mine! Thank you David.
Nice portfolio but post more animations and videos and I'll be happy to include :). This starter pack is for time-based media. I should rename it to be more clear...
went through my follows and @kris.art starter packs and made a new Starter Pack focused on video, animation, and motion. it blew my mind to see so much great art but sadly passed over much of it because this pack is all about moving images.
I've started a Starter Pack for AI Visuals: go.bsky.app/76FuFrB I'm new here and I'm sure there are many more I've missed, please comment here and help fill it in. I'm still searching and growing it!
Hello world. My new identity, a work in progress: draves.ai
