AI and the Art Market Jo Lawson-Tancred 9781848226890

AI and the Art Market is the first book to offer an approachable introduction to AI for art-market professionals, considering AI's impact on and possible applications within the art world, whether as a business tool or as an artistic medium. The two primary topics of how AI is affecting the art market and the market for AI art are united under the broad theme of how art-market professionals can be better equipped to work with AI in an art-world context, as relative novices.

The book discusses questions such as: Can AI benefit your business? If you are open to working with the growing number of artists who use AI, how can you best support their practices and approach selling their work? What risks should you be aware of, and how can you distinguish between truly cutting-edge innovation and outlandish, unsubstantiated claims about AI? More broadly, how/is AI reshaping practices within the art market and what cultural changes should we be prepared for in the long term?

AI and the Art Market puts forward a balanced overview of this increasingly Hot Topic, considering the benefits of AI while never shying away from its ethical complications and practical limitations.

Jo Lawson-Tancred is European News Reporter for Artnet News. She has covered the art market and art + tech stories for Artnet News, Apollo, the Financial Times and BBC Culture among other publications. She is also trained in coding and applied machine learning, and was a research associate on a generative AI project at the Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology.