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• Bookmark Tech issues: The myth of inevitable technological progress - Vox

  They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not. Imagine you’re taking an online business class — the kind where you watch video lectures and then…

  March 22 2024, 3:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays

  There seems to be a growing recognition that humanity might be approaching the ‘end times’. Dire predictions of catastrophe clutter the news. Social media videos of hellish wildfires, devastating floods and…

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays

  There seems to be a growing recognition that humanity might be approaching the ‘end times’. Dire predictions of catastrophe clutter the news. Social media videos of hellish wildfires, devastating floods and…

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The Changing Ontology of the Image | The Nordic Journal…

  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…

  July 4 2021, 10:36pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Openly shared AI Resource List - Google Docs

  List of AI in: Academia, Technology and Activism - An Openly shared Resource with Peers. (Title to be changed soon) The Cultural Production of Art and AI: Investigating various methods such as: computer vision, artificial intelligence, neurorobotics, speech…

  July 10 2020, 4:59am | Comments

• Podcast Cache AI Is A Growing Part Of The Criminal Justice System. Should We…

  From facial recognition to emotion detection to risk assessments, AI is guiding the decisions of police departments and courtrooms across the country. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/artificial-intelligence-is-a-growing-part-of-the-criminal-justice-system-should-we-be-worried/

  September 15 2019, 3:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant…

  What does it mean to be alive right now? Right now. Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition.

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Google's solution to accidental algorithmic racism: ban gorillas | Technology | The…

  After Google was criticised in 2015 for an image-recognition algorithm that auto-tagged pictures of black people as “gorillas”, the company promised “immediate action” to prevent any repetition of the error.

  March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Additivism Transmediale’s Revolution from Within

  February 21 2017, 2:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Technically Female: Women, Machines, and Hyperemployment | Salvage

  In an advert for Recognition Equipment in 1966, a young woman with a charming smile places an arm around her male colleague’s shoulder, and rests her head gently against him as…

  August 8 2016, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark A manifesto for algorithms in the environment

  Algorithms – step-by-step sequences of operations that solve specific computational tasks – are transforming the world around us. They support sophisticated search engines, voice recognition software, online transactions, data compression, targeted…

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Even Sophisticated AI Can’t Always Tell a Parrot from a Cat |…

  Samim Winiger spends a lot of his time playing around with neural networks, primitive artificial brains trained to autonomously run through algorithms for some kind of output, whether image recognition or…

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The weird deserves recognition as a major literary movement | Books |…

  The image that conjures the weird for me, above and beyond all others, is the rift in reality. The tear in the space time continuum that swallows the Starship Enterprise. The…

  June 6 2015, 3:50pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 25 2015, 2:14am | Comments

• Additivism Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

  April 27 2015, 9:47am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

  April 13 2015, 5:50am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

  August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark There's Not Much 'Glitch' In Glitch Art | Motherboard

  Artist Daniel Temkin has been creating and discussing glitch art for over seven years. In that time, he's exhibited in solo and group shows, and had his work featured in Rhizome…

  March 18 2014, 12:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark Uncivilizing the PhD: for a politics of doctoral experience | ROAR Magazine

  The road to a PhD is a common source of frustration. It is time to acknowledge and contest this experience as the outcome of a disciplinarian process. As a faceless PhD…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 26 2013, 6:23am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The weird deserves recognition as a major literary movement

  September 29 2012, 4:15am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing

  For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

  August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?

  It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

  June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise

  Huddled within one of the most influential theories of human desire and the destiny of democracy is an image of history and its future. This image is of a horizon. In…

  June 15 2012, 5:25am | Comments

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• Bookmark Tech issues: The myth of inevitable technological progress - Vox

  They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not. Imagine you’re taking an online business class — the kind where you watch video lectures and then…

  March 22 2024, 3:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays

  There seems to be a growing recognition that humanity might be approaching the ‘end times’. Dire predictions of catastrophe clutter the news. Social media videos of hellish wildfires, devastating floods and…

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays

  There seems to be a growing recognition that humanity might be approaching the ‘end times’. Dire predictions of catastrophe clutter the news. Social media videos of hellish wildfires, devastating floods and…

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The Changing Ontology of the Image | The Nordic Journal…

  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…

  July 4 2021, 10:36pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Openly shared AI Resource List - Google Docs

  List of AI in: Academia, Technology and Activism - An Openly shared Resource with Peers. (Title to be changed soon) The Cultural Production of Art and AI: Investigating various methods such as: computer vision, artificial intelligence, neurorobotics, speech…

  July 10 2020, 4:59am | Comments

• Podcast Cache AI Is A Growing Part Of The Criminal Justice System. Should We…

  From facial recognition to emotion detection to risk assessments, AI is guiding the decisions of police departments and courtrooms across the country. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/artificial-intelligence-is-a-growing-part-of-the-criminal-justice-system-should-we-be-worried/

  September 15 2019, 3:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant…

  What does it mean to be alive right now? Right now. Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition.

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Google's solution to accidental algorithmic racism: ban gorillas | Technology | The…

  After Google was criticised in 2015 for an image-recognition algorithm that auto-tagged pictures of black people as “gorillas”, the company promised “immediate action” to prevent any repetition of the error.

  March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Additivism Transmediale’s Revolution from Within

  February 21 2017, 2:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Technically Female: Women, Machines, and Hyperemployment | Salvage

  In an advert for Recognition Equipment in 1966, a young woman with a charming smile places an arm around her male colleague’s shoulder, and rests her head gently against him as…

  August 8 2016, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark A manifesto for algorithms in the environment

  Algorithms – step-by-step sequences of operations that solve specific computational tasks – are transforming the world around us. They support sophisticated search engines, voice recognition software, online transactions, data compression, targeted…

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Even Sophisticated AI Can’t Always Tell a Parrot from a Cat |…

  Samim Winiger spends a lot of his time playing around with neural networks, primitive artificial brains trained to autonomously run through algorithms for some kind of output, whether image recognition or…

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The weird deserves recognition as a major literary movement | Books |…

  The image that conjures the weird for me, above and beyond all others, is the rift in reality. The tear in the space time continuum that swallows the Starship Enterprise. The…

  June 6 2015, 3:50pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 25 2015, 2:14am | Comments

• Additivism Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

  April 27 2015, 9:47am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

  April 13 2015, 5:50am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

  August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark There's Not Much 'Glitch' In Glitch Art | Motherboard

  Artist Daniel Temkin has been creating and discussing glitch art for over seven years. In that time, he's exhibited in solo and group shows, and had his work featured in Rhizome…

  March 18 2014, 12:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark Uncivilizing the PhD: for a politics of doctoral experience | ROAR Magazine

  The road to a PhD is a common source of frustration. It is time to acknowledge and contest this experience as the outcome of a disciplinarian process. As a faceless PhD…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 26 2013, 6:23am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The weird deserves recognition as a major literary movement

  September 29 2012, 4:15am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing

  For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

  August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?

  It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

  June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise

  Huddled within one of the most influential theories of human desire and the destiny of democracy is an image of history and its future. This image is of a horizon. In…

  June 15 2012, 5:25am | Comments

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