What do NASA, Bloomberg, Cannes, and Paris have in common?
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The next era of AI and Creativity is being shaped in rooms where major institutions, emerging platforms, artists, technologists, and creative leaders are already in conversation. At Summit, attendees heard how NASA is bringing one of the world’s most trusted brand into the generative era before the session went live on Bloomberg. In Paris, Artist and the Machine joins CRAFTED as a Supporting Partner, giving our community priority access to a highly curated gathering around AI and craft. This is where the ideas start, not where they stay. Read on for a first look at concepts that have yet to hit the mainstream.
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Bloomberg’s Christina Ruffini sat down with NASA’s David Rager to discuss how his role as creative director is central to how one of the world’s most trusted institutions communicates discovery, science, and imagination.
Founder and CEO of OpenArt Coco Mao joined Kristen Bender of Universal Music Group, Chris Neff of Anomaly, and creator Paige Piskin for a Main Stage conversation on the creatives and platform builders defining the edge of technology and culture. The session looks at how new creative formats take shape, why cultural instinct matters as much as technical capability, and how tools like OpenArt are becoming part of the infrastructure for what gets made next.
Events
In true Artist and the Machine fashion, for Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity we’ll be leaning into the intimate and the intentional, hosting two carefully curated moments in conversation with partners and friends, covering the Rise of the New Creative Technologist, and The Imagination Age. Reply if you’ll be there and would like to join us ✨Â
Over June 17 and 18 in New York, Replit is bringing vibe coding further into culture with vibecon, its first creative conference in New York this June. The event gathers artists, filmmakers, designers, founders, technologists, and curious newcomers around the simple premise that code is becoming a creative medium. It is a fitting signal for where this space is heading, as software creation moves out of purely technical teams and into the hands of creators.
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OpenArt is offering a $240 trial subscription with generous credits: to the Artist and The Machine community. You can request a trial via the link above.
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Artist and the Machine joins as a Supporting Partner: Of Benjamin Benichou’s invite-only event in Paris on the future of AI and craft, on the evening of June 19th. Artist and the Machine community will be prioritized if you request to join.
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Suno Reveals $400 Million Funding Round at $5.4 Billion Valuation: The Hollywood Reporter covers that the round, led by OpenAI investor Bond Capital, comes just six months after a $250 million funding round had valued the company at $2.45 billion.
If you’re creating something aligned with Artist and the Machine or you’d like to recommend work shaping this space, we’d love to see it for the chance to be featured. Reach out to us at community@artistandthemachine.com.
Til next time,
Artist and the Machine.
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Paige Piskin is an award-winning AI and XR creator, known for pushing the boundaries of digital makeup, character design, and augmented reality experiences. With AR effects generating more than 300 billion impressions, shared 2 billion times, Paige has worked with major brands like Netflix, Bratz, Warner, and Coldplay, bringing immersive storytelling to life. She has also been a guest judge for Netflix, consultant, and 2x hackathon winner, recognized for her innovative work in AI-driven AR experiences. Paige is passionate about blending generative AI with character design, expanding the possibilities of digital self-expression and interactive storytelling.
Claire Silver is an anonymous AI-Collaborative artist that works with oil, acrylic, collage, photography, and different digital mediums to create her work. She often blends the classical style and mythos into her art, collaboratively producing work that feels at once familiar and strange. Her work explores themes of innocence, trauma, the hero’s journey, and how our view of them will change in an increasingly transhumanist future. Claire’s art can be found in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has been at Sotheby’s London and Christie’s New York and in galleries, museums, and festivals all over the world. Featured in the New York Times, WIRED, Fortune, NPR, and countless podcasts, Claire takes every opportunity to explore her unending fascination with AI, fight for visibility for this budding art movement, and wonder at the magnitude of this moment in history. She often feels like a caveman painting fire. Claire is vocal in her belief that with the rise of AI, for the first time, the barrier of skill is swept away and that in this evolving era, taste is the new skill.