Media Arts and Technology

Project 8 - Artist Reviews Final Assignment For the final assignment, you will research three artists listed at the course syllabus: https://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/26spr265/26spr265.html whose practice engages with blockchain, NFTs, generative systems, or on-chain creative proc...

Project 7 - Robert Alice's ON NFTs, Taschen


Review the book by Robert Alice "ON NFTs", published by Taschen (https://www.amazon.com/NFTs-Robert-Alice/dp/3836593459/), and placed on reserve in the library.

Read "On Quantum", pages 061-077. Select a few topics and discuss them.

Project 6 - Museums and Institutional Adoption of NFTs Research how institutions like LACMA, the Centre Pompidou, and the Toledo Museum of Art have engaged with NFT art. What curatorial and ethical challenges arise when museums collect or exhibit blockchain-based works? https://www.lacma.org/lab/nf...

Project 5 - DeepFakes and Forensics

Drawing on Hany Farid's work, research the current state of AI-generated media manipulation. How does blockchain-based verification potentially counter deepfakes? What are the limitations of using the blockchain as a tool for media authentication?

Project 4 - Smart Contract & On-Chains

Describe what a smart contract and on-chains are.

Select a three works at artblocks, for instance Rhea Myers' and describe what the artwork is: https://www.artblocks.io/collection/dra ... ea-myers-2

Project 3 - Provenance Review the articles dealing with Provenance: https://artnewsnviews.com/art-business/blockchain-art-provenance/ https://www.thefineartledger.com/post/blockchain-art-provenance-collectors-2026 https://scienmag.com/transparent-blockchain-mechanism-for-archaeological-artifact-con...

Project 2 - Understanding Etherscan Etherscan is a block explorer and analytics platform that tracks and sorts the Ethereum blockchain’s data into easily navigable information. It allows users to access information on a wide range of Ethereum activities such as ERC-20 token transactions, NFT mints,...

Proj 1. Cryptopunks For the first assignment, put together a brief presentation on the following: Select a cryptopunk and describe its history using https://etherscan.io/myaccount and https://opensea.io/ explaining what the various info are about. You can actually see its full history in the detail...

have basic video working in comfyui Learning from everyone's presentation I do have a video with the text pompt of "100 lines". Attaching workflow here. I found a interpolation node called "RIFE VFI" Its currently working. It works by adding in-between frames - I now have to test the various seting...

Spike introduced us today to deeviv.ai which was quite inspiring. He asked to test the video with my image of a truck in a tree in a lab:
and did a number of variations. I compiled them into a video using the Mac imovie.app and here it is: https://vimeo.com/1168732637