Artnome in the Press
One Art Lover’s Crusade To Catalog The World
“Tucked away in Massachusetts, one man is making his life’s work out of those other life’s works. For the past three years, Jason Bailey has been hunting these catalogs down. “
Here's an in-depth investigation into just how real Banksy's art-shredding prank was
“Jason Bailey at Artnome has put together a deep dive on the veracity of Banksy’s stunt, and believe it or not, it seems like the whole thing was legitimate—depending on how you feel about Sotheby’s involvement.”
Jason Bailey, the founder of Artnome and an advisor to Portion suggests that ‘the lack of good data has led to a major problem with forgery and misattribution,’ and the fact that Christie’s used ‘blockchain for the Ebsworth collection is an early step towards data transparency and improved provenance.’
Myth-busting the self-shredding Banksy painting
“At Artnome, Jason Bailey sets about myth-busting the shred, right down to the technical challenges of creating such a device.”
Christie’s Is First to Sell Art Made by Artificial Intelligence, But What Does That Mean?
“Jason Bailey, the digital art blogger behind Artnome, explains why such phrasing is misleading, arguing that “anyone who has worked with AI and art realizes” algorithms are tools, not active collaborators or autonomous agents”
Who needs artists? Rise in works made by artificial intelligence raises real questions for the art market
“As the US artist and digital art collector Jason Bailey says: ‘The process of coding generative art [is] similar to painting or sketching.’”
What the Art World Is Failing to Grasp about Christie’s AI Portrait Coup
“These claims were refuted by Hugo Caselles-Dupré, one of the three makers of the work. In an interview with Jason Bailey at Artnome, he said: “I’ve got to be honest with you, we have totally lost control of how the press talks about us.”
HOW THREE FRENCH STUDENTS USED BORROWED CODE TO PUT THE FIRST AI PORTRAIT IN CHRISTIE’S
“Jason Bailey, a digital art blogger who runs the site Artnome, says that what Obvious has done is far from unusual. “It’s almost weekly in digital art that someone takes some open code and tweaks it and sells it,” he tells The Verge. “