November 8, 2018 by Carla Rapoport
Star Pupil
Students can enter the Lumen Prize competition for free, thanks to Meural, the digital canvas company which provides the funding for the annual Meural Student Award. Even so, it’s a tough sell to get students to enter. When I asked a group of students why this was, one answered…
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November 1, 2018 by Carla Rapoport
Embracing the Machine
Most Lumen artists are hard to categorise. This is because they employ such disparate disciplines to make their art. A prime example of…
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October 29, 2018 by Carla Rapoport
Mining for Gold
Last week’s sale of a portrait created by artificial intelligence for US$432,000 by Christie’s in NY knocked most people creating art with Artificial…
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October 15, 2018 by Carla Rapoport
Hello Fungus
Artists use all kinds of materials to make their art but slime mould, it’s fair to say, isn’t normally among them. What about…
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October 6, 2018 by Carla Rapoport
In Defence of Women
In the beginning, there was the Founder’s Award, which I launched in 2013 to celebrate art that I felt the Jury Panel had…
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