Critical Playground is an independent online publication about creative technology and culture, sending a weekly newsletter on forces shaping contemporary creative practice such as AI infrastructures and platform power. Recent issues offer essay-length criticism on media art history, the ethics and staging of an art project involving dark-web purchases, and computational media in India.
Website: https://criticalplayground.org/
A weekly roundup of noteworthy projects, papers and tools in creative coding, generative art and AI. Each issue explains a few new works in some technical detail, such as speech synthesis models, particle simulations and constraint-based puzzle generation.
A curated newsletter featuring interviews with artists and creators working across physical and digital media, with each issue built around a theme such as lighting or domes. Issues open with a reflective letter from the curators followed by an in-depth conversation with the featured artist.
Z-Space News is the newsletter of Z-Space, a Vancouver media arts society, covering member studio updates, community projects and local TouchDesigner meetups. Readers get event announcements and short notes on creative and technical work happening in the community.
A weekly curated roundup of AI experiments and tool links, mostly tweets the author bookmarked, with brief commentary on generative video, music, games and odd new applications. It mainly tells readers what interesting AI demos appeared recently rather than offering deep analysis.
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