MachineMachine /stream - tagged with digital https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Linking the g(URL) – Syllabus]]> https://syllabusproject.org/linking-the-gurl/

Girl dinner, hot girl walk, that girl, clean girl, girl boss, girl math, girl blog, hot girl summer, pick me girl, christian girl autumn, vsco girl, e-girl, good girl, bad girl, sad girl, manic pixie dream girl, i’m just a girl, girl’s girl, girl power, rat girl, feral girl, gorgeous gorgeous gi

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Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:32:59 -0700 https://syllabusproject.org/linking-the-gurl/
<![CDATA[Linking the g(URL) – Syllabus]]> https://syllabusproject.org/linking-the-gurl/

Girl dinner, hot girl walk, that girl, clean girl, girl boss, girl math, girl blog, hot girl summer, pick me girl, christian girl autumn, vsco girl, e-girl, good girl, bad girl, sad girl, manic pixie dream girl, i’m just a girl, girl’s girl, girl power, rat girl, feral girl, gorgeous gorgeous gi

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Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:32:59 -0700 https://syllabusproject.org/linking-the-gurl/
<![CDATA[Demystifying Generative Art - Editorial - Le Random — A Digital Generative Art Institution]]> https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/demystifying-generative-art

Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) develops a framework for appreciating and analyzing generative art through an investigation of the movement’s locus of artistic intent.

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Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:51:23 -0700 https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/demystifying-generative-art
<![CDATA[Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just ‘Onboarding Tools’ for Tech Conglomerates]]> https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692

It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:53:18 -0700 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692
<![CDATA[Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just ‘Onboarding Tools’ for Tech Conglomerates]]> https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692

It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:53:18 -0700 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692
<![CDATA[The NFT Has Changed Artists. Has it Changed Art? - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/arts/design/nft-art-beeple.html

Around 1425, the Florentine artist Masaccio painted the first major works in one-point perspective. That revolutionized what artists could do ever after. In Paris in 1839, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre demonstrated his new photographic invention.

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Sat, 05 Mar 2022 13:51:07 -0800 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/arts/design/nft-art-beeple.html
<![CDATA[The Rise of “Immersive” Art | The New Yorker]]> https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-rise-and-rise-of-immersive-art

The lights were off, the air smelled faintly of roses, and New Age music flowed from room to room.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:21 -0800 https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-rise-and-rise-of-immersive-art
<![CDATA[arrow-left]]> https://artreview.com/the-boring-art-of-zuckerberg-metaverse/

From floating ‘3D street art’ to a talking Henri Rousseau painting, Meta’s vision of the future is drained of all imagination When I was a kid, I had a book about the future.

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:51:41 -0800 https://artreview.com/the-boring-art-of-zuckerberg-metaverse/
<![CDATA[Bloomberg - Are you a robot?]]> https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=2c627d9b-4dff-11ec-86a8-4c434a574268&url=L25ld3MvYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjAyMS0xMS0wOS9uZnQtY3J5cHRvLWFydC1tYXJrZXQtYm9vbS1iaWdnZXN0LXNhbGVzLWdvaW5nLXRvLW1hbGUtYXJ0aXN0cy13b21lbi1sYWc=

This summer, when Fame Lady Squad launched, claiming to be the first ever female-led crypto art collective, it quickly raised $1.5 million from people who wanted to support underrepresented artists.  Weeks later, it turned out, the group was actually run by men.

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:51:30 -0800 https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=2c627d9b-4dff-11ec-86a8-4c434a574268&url=L25ld3MvYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjAyMS0xMS0wOS9uZnQtY3J5cHRvLWFydC1tYXJrZXQtYm9vbS1iaWdnZXN0LXNhbGVzLWdvaW5nLXRvLW1hbGUtYXJ0aXN0cy13b21lbi1sYWc=
<![CDATA[Vol. 30 No. 61-62 (2021): The Changing Ontology of the Image| The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics]]> https://tidsskrift.dk/nja/issue/view/9283

Vol. 30 No.

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Mon, 05 Jul 2021 02:36:39 -0700 https://tidsskrift.dk/nja/issue/view/9283
<![CDATA[The Changing Ontology of the Image | The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics]]> https://tidsskrift.dk/nja/issue/view/9283

Traditionally we think of images as relatively individualized or delimited phenomena that, in one way or the other, appear to the human mind and apparatus of perception. Currently, however, we are witnessing an intensification of what we might call thenetworkedness of the image along with a proliferation of machine imagery that operates independently of human perception and cognition. These “operative images” are, in Harun Farocki’s oft-cited formulation, “images without a social goal, not for edification, not for reflection”—they “do not represent an object, but rather are part of an operation.” In fact, one might claim that one of the characteristics of the contemporary image-space is its increasing integration of operational images and machine vision.

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Sun, 04 Jul 2021 22:36:39 -0700 https://tidsskrift.dk/nja/issue/view/9283
<![CDATA[NFTs might not solve the digital art authenticity problem.]]> https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/nfts-digital-art-authenticity-problem.html

When Christie’s auctioned for $69 million a “nonfungible token,” or NFT, linked to the digital collage Everydays: The First 5000 Days, many people asked WTF was an NFT? And why was a relative unknown artist by the name of Beeple now the third-highest selling living artist—for a digital work

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Mon, 17 May 2021 23:55:37 -0700 https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/nfts-digital-art-authenticity-problem.html
<![CDATA[What Does It Mean To Buy a Gif? | Jack Rusher]]> https://jackrusher.com/journal/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-a-gif.html?s=09

It’s everywhere on the Internet right now—NFT this, Rarible that. Tokens, tokens, come get your tokens! We’ve got people shouting that the whole idea is an absurdity or an abomination, others saying it’s only a cynical cash grab, or that it is yet another harbinger of ecological disaster.

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:55:33 -0700 https://jackrusher.com/journal/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-a-gif.html?s=09
<![CDATA[Beeple thinks NFTs are a bubble, cashed out ETH earnings straightaway - Crypto Daily™]]> https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2021/03/Beeple-thinks-NFTs-are-a-bubble-cashed-out-ETH-earnings-straightaway

In an interview with The New Yorker, Beeple said that as soon as he received his stash in ETH, he became concerned regarding Ethereum’s volatility, hence the immediate move to convert everything to US dollars. “Boom, 53 million dollars in my account.

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:55:32 -0700 https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2021/03/Beeple-thinks-NFTs-are-a-bubble-cashed-out-ETH-earnings-straightaway
<![CDATA[Opinion | NFTs: What Are You Paying for When You Buy a GIF for $25,000? - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/opinion/what-are-nfts.html

On March 13, Li Jin sold a GIF for $25,000. A link to the moving image, which was assigned a unique bit of code as proof of authenticity and stored on the blockchain, was purchased at auction via the cryptocurrency Ethereum and sold in 24 hours.

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:55:19 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/opinion/what-are-nfts.html
<![CDATA[Jonathan Beller: NFT Does Not Stand for Non-Fascist Token, but It Should - CoinDesk]]> https://www.coindesk.com/fascism-blockchain-art-nfts

The same fascistic tendencies Walter Benjamin saw in the rise of mass media are at play in the NFT "revolution," too.

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:55:16 -0700 https://www.coindesk.com/fascism-blockchain-art-nfts
<![CDATA[Collecting in the Age of Digital Reproduction - Casey REAS - Medium]]> https://medium.com/@REAS/collecting-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction-ab0640a42fe6

In the art market, almost everything sold is an object such as a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, an installation, or a photograph, but there are some exceptions. These deviations may include a contract, a set of instructions, a digital video file, or a software file.

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Wed, 11 Sep 2019 04:28:29 -0700 https://medium.com/@REAS/collecting-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction-ab0640a42fe6
<![CDATA[MONSTROUS THOUGHTS: Philosopher Eugene Thacker on the “New Golden Age of Horror” - 032c]]> https://032c.com/monstrous-thoughts-philosopher-eugene-thacker-on-the-new-golden-age-of-horror

When René Descartes, sitting in his armchair in Leiden in 1641, invites his readers to meditate alongside him, you get the sense he could do with the company.

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Wed, 21 Aug 2019 04:09:02 -0700 https://032c.com/monstrous-thoughts-philosopher-eugene-thacker-on-the-new-golden-age-of-horror
<![CDATA[Appropriating the Alien: A Critique of Xenofeminism | Mute]]> http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/appropriating-alien-critique-xenofeminism

The Xenofeminist Manifesto claims, among many things, rationalism and technology as core to a renewed futurist feminist project. However, given the provenance of its moniker and its 'pro-enlightenment' position, Annie Goh asks, WTF exactly is XF?

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 11:11:21 -0700 http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/appropriating-alien-critique-xenofeminism
<![CDATA[Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain]]> https://themargins.substack.com/p/taboola-outbrain-and-the-chum-supply

Ranjan here, and today I'm talking Taboola and Outbrain. Most of my work in media has been on subscriptions and branded content, so I've never played in the depths of ad-tech darkness. But, I spent seven years trading currency derivatives and am well versed in the art of arbitrage.

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Mon, 27 May 2019 17:28:11 -0700 https://themargins.substack.com/p/taboola-outbrain-and-the-chum-supply