Karen Eng

A survey of metaverse tools for turning cultural memory into immersive digital spaces. The future of cultural storytelling isn’t just digital — it’s dimensional. And you don’t have to build a whole high-tech utopia to create an effective experience. A single room with embedded videos, a photo with spatial audio, a reconstructed kitchen, or an interactive gallery can speak volumes.

Cuban artist Novus Sphynx — director of the live drawing performance Conversaciones Visuales — reflects on the challenges & cultural significance of this historic feat. Karen Frances Eng · Follow 12 min read · Feb 25, 2025 -- Interdependencia & Cooperación / Interdependence & Cooperation (2025) Live painting, 26 January 2025, Havana Biennial.

As text-to-AI excites and enrages the world, the 105 cryptoart collective* calmly ponders the joys of using AI to make art. Text-to-image AI has hit the collective imagination big time since companies like Midjourney and DALL-E opened to the public last year. Servers are grinding away with the storm of activity, and social media feeds are clogged with images claiming to interpret our thoughts via words.