{"id":8804,"date":"2026-04-29T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:25:12","slug":"edmond-de-belamy-by-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8804","title":{"rendered":"Edmond de Belamy by Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/960px-Edmond_de_Belamy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"964\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/960px-Edmond_de_Belamy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8805\" style=\"width:452px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/960px-Edmond_de_Belamy.png 960w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/960px-Edmond_de_Belamy-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/960px-Edmond_de_Belamy-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/960px-Edmond_de_Belamy-768x771.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edmond_de_Belamy\">Portrait of Edward de Belamy<\/a> is a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) ink print created by the art group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obvious-art.com\/\">Obvious<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name &#8220;Belamy&#8221; is a joke on the name of the developer of GAN, Ian Goodfellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The print was bought at auction for $432,500 (USD), a first for AI generated art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned about this from a talk on &#8220;Alternative Histories of genAI&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/rhetoric.richmond.edu\/faculty\/ltilton\/\">Lauren Tilton<\/a>. She talked about the institutions involve in authorizing art. Is it art because it was bought for a lot of money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This talk was part of a conference in Nice and Cannes, <a href=\"https:\/\/crihn.openum.ca\/nouvelles\/2026\/01\/19\/colloque-creativites-artificielles-approches-critiques-de-lia-nice\/\">Colloque \u201cCr\u00e9ativit\u00e9s artificielles: Approches critiques de l\u2019IA\u201d @ Nice<\/a> that I also presented at. My talk was on &#8220;Thinking-Through Trust in AI&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portrait of Edward de Belamy is a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) ink print created by the art group Obvious. The name &#8220;Belamy&#8221; is a joke on the name of the developer of GAN, Ian Goodfellow. The print was bought at auction for $432,500 (USD), a first for AI generated art. I learned about this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edmond de Belamy by Obvious<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,8,5,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-digital-and-interactive-art","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8806,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions\/8806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}