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Congratulations Shirley Roberts on winning both the #Slam and the Quick Fire round tonight. Thanks to all the #poets who took part this evening, all the audience and rising sun #arts centre RG1 2ST for providing the venue

If you make visual art, make it feature things AI cannot do. I firmly believe this is the next great art leap because all else will be so AI imitated and devalued.

• Add textures and materials AI users cannot print, and which are not done justice in photos.

• Feature specific localised or personal knowledge AI will not have known about (without putting your personal privacy at risk.

• If showing works anywhere online or in gallery catalogues, give the works incorrect object or person titles to confuse and corrupt AI, and make a joke of it so those viewing it understand what you are doing, or reference them numerically. Gallery owners really need to implement such tactics too.

• show only parts of the works online, not the whole thing. Do not assume a photo taken at an angle cannot be altered to true perspective, then scraped by AI.

And please, feel free to share any other ideas, not just for visual arts but music too. We need to find as many workarounds to protect human originated arts as possible.

#art #arts #AI #AIslop #creativity #humancreativity #gallery #galleries

Very proud of my students for their Shakespeare anthology performance. We performed scenes from 6 Shakespeare plays. The back drops were rotatable stage flats that could be changed to set different scenes and all painted by the students (I did the office scene) Who wants to guess which play is in each photo here? Extra points if you guess all 3. #Theater #Shakespeare #Arts #Education

So the article about how changes in arts funding will affect artists and small companies and their communities is here. After 60 years, they are reversing the flow of money from the communities to the big development projects. #arts #ArtsFunding https://www.broadstreetreview.com/features/huge-changes-to-the-pennsylvania-council-on-the-arts-will-impact-the-philly-cultural-scene

If you’re into poetry and/or hand-operated letterpresses, you might want to get to the Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota this Saturday. Letterpress equipment sale @ noon Reception & exhibition at 2pm Details: https://www.andersoncenter.org/calendarevents/rdp/ I’ll elaborate on my tangential connection in the replies in this thread. #poetry #poets #RedDragonfly #RedDragonflyPress #letterpress #MNastodon #Minnesota #arts #LetterpressPublishing

KWARTZLAB PROVIDES MEMBERS ACCESS TO INVALUABLE TOOLS Hobbies can quickly become expensive, especially if it’s one that requires specialized tools like a laser cutter or full-size floor loom. But what if you did not have to buy those tools or find space in your basement for them?   That is the mission of Kwartzlab, a volunteer-led maker space located at 145 Bedford Rd. in Kitchener. Kwartzlab offers monthly memberships for $59 plus HST, which provides 24/7 access to the space’s wood, metal, textile, and pottery shops and tools.   Kwartzlab opened in 2009 inside the Boehmer Box building on Duke St., before moving to a space near Kent St. and Charles St.  Sarah Jones, Kwartzlab’s president, said the idea for the space came from a group of people who wanted to get together and build things.  “It was very much a hacker type of place, and some of those people are still members today,” Jones said.  “I used to have to tape every wooden corner because they would catch my sweater. Our metal, wood and welding shops would fit into one room here,” she said.  Kwartzlab moved the space on Bedford Rd. in 2019, and has taken over additional space since to add a textile area with looms and knitting machines. Today, it offers 9,000 square feet of space to its 230 members.   The membership base includes individuals and some small businesses. Jones said they have chosen to offer a single membership rate rather than a tier-based system.  “There’s a fundamental belief [that] we don’t want businesses to pay more and then suddenly feel like they have more privileges. We often get asked about student rates and things like that, but honestly, our rates are so much lower than any other maker space that it’s kind of hard to lower it any more,” Jones said.  In addition to memberships, Kwartzlab does offer rental spaces for members who need to store items onsite or for private workspaces.  “Membership pays for the lights on, and then studios end up paying for all the extra tools that we want to buy,” she said.  The general public can experience the Kwartzlab space at its Tuesday Open Nights, monthly mending and repair drop-ins, or at member-led workshops. At the Tuesday Open Nights, non-members can come to Kwartzlab and use general tools like sewing machines or hand drills. Specialized tools like the laser cutter or CNC machine are reserved for members.  “So, if you have something to sew and you want to just borrow a sewing machine, you could come in and do that. We’ve had in the past somebody who came in every Tuesday for two months and sewed a shirt,” Jones said.  As the space approaches its 20th anniversary and begins planning for its next chapter, Jones said accessibility is the top priority, whether that means staying on Bedford Rd. or finding somewhere new.  “That last move was chaotic. We lost members, we burned out the rest. We’re already planning ahead for how we manage it better this time,” Jones said.  Regardless of the space or the tools, Jones said what makes Kwartzlab work is the people and a willingness to try something new.  “Here it’s okay to not know everything. You can say, ‘I’ve never rewired an outlet, could somebody show me?’ And somebody will. I joke that we’re all weird around here. You just want the right kind of weird,” she said.  #AlexKinsella #arts #communityCollective #hobby #kwartzlab #LocalArt #rove #SarahJones #StudioSpace #Tools #weaving

As next weekend is Easter Dreading #slam will be a week later than usual on Sunday April 12th 19:30 at Rising Sun #arts centre RG1 2ST

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In the studio. Sunny after the rain, #photography #monochrome #monochromemonday #arts

Sun sets essions #openmic returns from it’s winter break to Rising Sun #Arts centre RG1 2ST this Sunday (Mar 8th) at 19:30 Friendly event for both #spokenword and music and a good opportunity to procatice in from of fellow performers Newcomers welcome

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The 12 life-sized bronze statues at the Green McAdoo Cultural Center in Clinton, Tennessee, USA, depict the "Clinton 12" students in their daily walk to desegregate Clinton High School, with each figure being life-sized, representing their actual stature as teenagers. #Arts

B!M Lutherie Compagnie ———— B!M Lutherie Compagnie: 41, Rue de l'Industrie, Braine-le-Comte, 7090, Braine-le-Comte, Belgique ———— Trois luthiers de la guitare manouche s'associent pour créer un atelier partagé et une salle de concert. #socialband #arts #culture @socialband@mastodon.social @bim@vousrevoir.org

Dreading Slam, #Openmic #Poetry Competition is Rising Sun #arts centre (RG1 2ST) at 7:30PM (Doors 7:15) on Sunday March 1st #Free entry to Watch or #read. Dreading Slam is a friendly entertaining event The winner gets the opportunity to compete in the Grand Slam in January 2027 Quick-fire theme is “forward"

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At 67,800-years-old, These Handprints Just Discovered in Indonesia Are Oldest Example of Rock Art https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/at-67800-years-old-these-handprints-just-discovered-in-indonesia-are-oldest-example-of-rock-art/ #goodnews #archaeology #arts #Indonesia

'Murmeldjur' (Marmota) Creación del siglo XVII. Técnica: Óleo. Dimensiones: 73 × 107 cm. Ubicación: Museo Nacional de Estocolmo, Suecia. Autor: David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (alemán - sueco, 1628-1698) #arts #paintings

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