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Syllabus Cache AI Images — Cybernetic Forests.
Critical Topics: AI Images is an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It is meant to provide an overview of the context of AI art making tools and connects media studies, new media art, and…

February 5 2023, 7:33am | Comments
Bookmark AI art is only good for hollow, hotel lobby pieces - New…
An AI-generated image. Illustration by MoiraM/Alamy How much would you be willing to pay an artist for a portrait? £500? £200? How about $7.99 for 50? Over the last few days…

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories
Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. This story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED
Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark How to recognize fake AI-generated images | by Kyle McDonald | Medium
In 2014 machine learning researcher Ian Goodfellow introduced the idea of generative adversarial networks or GANs.

June 3 2022, 1:51am | Comments
Bookmark DALL-E 2, the future of AI research, and OpenAI’s business model –…
This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. Artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI made headlines again, this time with DALL-E 2, a machine learning model that can generate…

April 12 2022, 6:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died - The Verge
Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead inventors of the GIF, died last week from COVID at the age of 74, according to his wife, Kathaleen, who spoke to The Verge. He…

April 11 2022, 12:51am | Comments
Bookmark This artist claims you can torrent a blockchain’s worth of NFTs -…
In what may be one of the better pieces of performance art this year, Australian Geoffrey Huntley has created a website that promises to let you torrent an entire blockchain’s worth…

November 25 2021, 1:51am | 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 RESOURCE PORTAL ON ANTI-RACISM AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO ART HISTORY…
This portal contains hundreds of references arranged along subject, themes and media in eight bibliographies.

April 15 2021, 10:36pm | Comments
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January 18 2021, 2:36am | Comments
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January 18 2021, 2:36am | Comments
Bookmark Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait - The…
Who are you, and what are you doing here? You, there in the mirror, there in the lens of your phone: What do you see? In the eyes of us poor…

October 4 2020, 11:13pm | Comments
Bookmark How to Generate Infinite Fake Humans - The Atlantic
You encounter so many people every day, online and off-, that it is almost impossible to be alone. Now, thanks to computers, those people might not even be real.

March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments
Bookmark Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain
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…

May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments
Bookmark How the JPEG Changed Everything | Frieze
‘Every two minutes, people upload more images to the internet than existed in total just 150 years ago’

February 7 2019, 5:00am | Comments
Bookmark Compression Aesthetics: Glitch From the Avant-Garde to Kanye West – InVisible Culture
Carolyn L. Kane In a world that esteems technological efficiency, immediacy, and control, the advent of technical noise, glitch, and failure—no matter how colorful or disturbingly beautiful—are avoided at great costs.

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Hito Steyerl | Politics of Post-Representation «DIS Magazine
From the militarization of social media to the corporatization of the art world, Hito Steyerl’s writings represent some of the most influential bodies of work in contemporary cultural criticism today.

April 14 2018, 5:54am | Comments
Bookmark Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images > non.copyriot.com non.copyriot.com
“It’s not that what is past casts its light on what is present, or what is present its light on what is past; rather, image is that wherein what has been…

April 5 2018, 4:08am | Comments
Bookmark The Future Of GIFs As Gallery Art, According To The Current Sea
An episode of The Simpsons called “The Computer Wore Menace Shoes” sums up the turn-of-the-century internet quite well. Homer builds a website, dubbed “Mr. X's Web Page” and populates it with…

March 17 2018, 12:09pm | Comments
Bookmark Why women prefer erotic GIFs to steamy pornography videos - Sex Relationships
In the midst of an animated chat on a WhatsApp group recently, a friend took us by surprise with the casual mention of porn GIFs. "Have you seen it?" she asked.

September 26 2017, 5:27am | Comments
Bookmark 88 New Satellites Will Watch Earth, All the Time, All the Places…
The satellite company Planet is used to breaking records. In 2014, a rocket exploded with a payload of the company’s satellites inside—26, the biggest loss ever.

February 20 2017, 7:01am | Comments
Bookmark Why Time’s Trump Cover Is a Subversive Work of Political Art -…
Time Magazine’s annual “Person of the Year” announcement is, year after year, grossly misunderstood.

December 9 2016, 11:21am | Comments
Bookmark How Does Glitch Art Reflect Society? - DailyBreadMag
21.10.2016 We are living in the digital era, no doubt. Everything is going digital lately, so it’s no surprise to also see the growth of the digital art sphere. Today let’s…

October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments
Bookmark All About Glitch: Datamoshing - Notes on Design
In our second installment on Glitch Art we’re going to look at a type of glitch that is made using the compression artifacts from digital video called datamoshing. Datamoshing visual effects…

October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments
Bookmark Artist Profile: Lorna Mills | Rhizome
Paul Soulellis: Your recent work takes the form of animated GIF collages that convulse with explosions, weird animals and jerky gestures—scenes that are usually playful but often perverse. Most of it…

September 29 2016, 7:40am | Comments
Bookmark Gif Horse — Real Life
An adorable black kitten is sitting on a bookshelf, eyes fixed on an insect. It sits, paws perfectly aligned. Then, out of nowhere, it pounces — leaping off the shelf and…

September 7 2016, 7:09pm | Comments
Bookmark Study Links Police Bodycams to Increase in Shooting Deaths - Law Blog…
In the wake of high-profile police shootings, the Obama administration has encouraged local police departments to equip their officers with body-worn cameras.

August 17 2016, 12:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Google's Cultural Institute is making art and museums searchable for everyone |…

July 17 2016, 4:33am | Comments
Bookmark Modest Witness: A Painter's Collaboration with Donna Haraway
When I read Donna Haraway's Manifesto for Cyborgs in 1989, I was intrigued and inspired. Here was a piece that resonated with my political, feminist and moral values.

June 20 2016, 1:21am | Comments
Tumblr Star Trek: "Inalienable Human Rights"

April 17 2016, 5:22am | Comments
Bookmark Fascinating Photos from the Secret Trash Museum in a New York Sanitation…
On the second floor of a nondescript warehouse owned by New York City's Sanitation Department in East Harlem is a treasure trove—filled with other people's trash. Most of the building is…

March 17 2016, 5:04pm | Comments

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