The Talking Painting
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3 fund applications (1 curated)
Have you ever wanted to have a discussion with a painting about itself?
arts-mediaeducation
Project details match catalog
About
I am teaching my paintings speak about themselves, their inspiration and what they think they mean. This will be via augmented reality layered directly on the painting and so it will appear to talk and listen via a LLM+Whisper and some animation.
Impact
Firstly because Art has become an object in most people's eyes and I hope this can bring back inspiration, new perspectives and positive change. In addition I am neurodiverse (Autism + ADHD) it will demonstrate my differences for good.
Progress
I have validated the concept and now building components. The first painting to speak has been selected and animations are the next step, the painting is abstract and so it will be interesting how it can communicate.
Team
I have been an artist and technologist for 25 years, working with artists such as Lisa Reihana and Arthur Jaffa and so have learned traditional Art and delivered faultless technology at over 26 countries including Centre Pompidou, Sydney Harbour etc
Funding
No displayed figures preserved for this project.
Fund applications
| Season | Fund | Status | Applied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 4 | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers | submitted | 2024-07-17 |
| Season 4 | Artizen Fund for Human Creativity | curated | 2024-07-17 |
| Season 4 | Humanitarian Fund for Displaced Storytellers | submitted | 2024-07-22 |
Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.
Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/the-talking-painting
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Not recovered: creator, tags, links, funding, drives, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.
Top siblings
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| Project | Shared funds | Raised | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | FutureZoo What if the most powerful force in conservation isn’t protection, but connection? | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Artizen Fund for Human Creativity, Humanitarian Fund for Displaced Storytellers | $215,046 |
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