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Bookmark Google's New AI Can Tell Where Your Photo Was Taken Without Using…
In case you didn’t already feel like Google was a creepy stalker, its artificial intelligence tools are rapidly crossing over into uncanny. The latest one is PlaNet, a new deep-learning machine…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark Closing the Loop – The New Inquiry
“The black female’s body needs less to be rescued from the masculine “gaze” than to be sprung from a historic script surrounding her with signification while at the same time, and…

March 2 2016, 4:07am | Comments
Bookmark The Next Revolution in Photography Is Coming
Stephen Wilkes

February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments
Tumblr Amiga Graphics Archive ‪#‎DROOL‬

January 26 2016, 3:56am | Comments
Bookmark sarah howorka | average-face-mirror - interactive installation
this mirror displays an average of all the faces it has seen.

January 9 2016, 8:16am | Comments
Bookmark 7 Hidden Art Secrets That Were Uncovered With Technology | The Creators…
Paintings by the masters da Vinci, Rembrandt, Goya, and Caravaggio are often accepted as absolute works. Today, we use mobile devices to capture these images, compressing them onto tiny screens, and…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Tumblr ‘Lowly Machines to Overtake Man, Rule Universe’...

November 12 2015, 1:19pm | Comments
Bookmark The Man Who Laughed at Surveillance Technology: Mishka Henner on His Jarring…
The scariest thing about Mishka Henner’s “Feedlots” photographs is that they are so beautiful. In one photograph from the series, a pool of bright red swirls interrupts a field of greyish boxes.

October 24 2015, 3:35am | 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
Tumblr Pope vs wind

September 26 2015, 5:39am | Comments
Tumblr 80 textless movie posters

September 26 2015, 5:37am | Comments
Bookmark Technologists control the world we live in — and artists are worried…
In May, the New York-based art nonprofit Rhizome paired seven technologists with seven artists to create something over a 24-hour period. The artists get paid. The technologists do not.

August 23 2015, 7:58am | Comments
Bookmark This is how computers see porn | Fusion
A person sees this soon-to-be pornographic gif as an attractive blonde addressing the camera as she’s about to pull a man’s shorts down. A computer sees it as a portrait of…

July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments
Bookmark What is 21st Century Photography? | BLOG - The Photographers' Gallery
In this newly commissioned essay, Daniel Rubinstein answers one of photography’s most complicated questions.

July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Machine Vision Algorithm Chooses the Most Creative Paintings in History | MIT…
Creativity is one of humanity’s uniquely defining qualities. Numerous thinkers have explored the qualities that creativity must have, and most pick out two important factors: whatever the process of creativity produces,…

June 12 2015, 1:36am | Comments
Bookmark TECHNIQUES OF THE OBSERVER: HITO STEYERL AND LAURA POITRAS IN CONVERSATION by…
“TECHNOLOGY HAS TAKEN US by surprise, and the regions that it has opened up are glaringly empty,” Siegfried Kracauer once wrote.

May 4 2015, 9:44am | Comments
Additivism Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

April 27 2015, 9:47am | Comments
Bookmark Prosthetic Knowledge:The 3D Additivist Manifesto Project
The 3D Additivist Manifesto Project from Moreshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke takes a Modernist direction to call for new art to be made with contemporary tools:The 3D Additivist Manifesto blurs the…

March 29 2015, 11:58pm | Comments
Portfolio 'Ways of Something' curated by Lorna Mills

February 4 2015, 2:47pm | Comments
Bookmark How Photography's 'Decisive Moment' Often Depicts an Incomplete View of Reality |…
Photojournalism can be like “trying to play Rachmaninoff while wearing boxing gloves,” as former photojournalist Simon Norfolk put it.

February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Art and Chance: A list I want to compile a list of art works that used chance operations and/or randomness in their creation. I am keen to incorporate pre-20th century, non-Western works, and lots of works by female artists, but anything you can think of will be super…

January 20 2015, 10:45am | Comments
Bookmark What Happens When You Use a Visual Search Algorithm On Your Body…
One day artificial intelligence might well identify any object that passes in front of its sensors, and with far greater depth and accuracy than humans. For now, we have smartphone apps…

January 9 2015, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark PLOS ONE: Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections
Criminal investigations often use photographic evidence to identify suspects. Here we combined robust face perception and high-resolution photography to mine face photographs for hidden information.

January 6 2015, 10:07am | Comments
Bookmark The Triumphant Rise of the Shitpic - The Awl
In the first chapter of his book, After Photography, digital photography theorist Fred Ritchin explains the central selling point of digital over analog: Digital is based on an architecture of infinitely…

December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments
Bookmark Proxy Politics: Signal and Noise | e-flux
A while ago I met an extremely interesting software developer who was working on smartphone camera technology. Photography is traditionally thought to represent what is out there by means of technology,…

December 11 2014, 12:03pm | Comments
Bookmark Computers Wrote the Caption for This Photograph, and Changed Everything
Computers at Google now have a machine-learning system that can analyze images like the one above and generate captions for them. The phrase used to caption this image? "A person riding…

November 24 2014, 3:54pm | Comments
Bookmark What Power Do Images Have in Our Society?
While visiting a sci-fi and comics convention in Toronto recently, I found myself drawn inexorably toward the sound of gunfire, explosions, and grunts of agony and triumph.

November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark The Deeper I Stare Into the Internet, the More I See the…
We have a strange, sad way of leaving things behind. Not just regular old things—spent notebooks, obsolete consumer electronics, whatever—but big things that happen to be old.

October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments
Bookmark An Intelligent Algorithm Made A Discovery That Slipped Past Art Historians For…
Vincent van Gogh's Old Vineyard With Present Woman (1890) and Joan Miro's The Farm (1922) Could a computer program influence how we understand art history and the canon? Or, could an…

October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark How Kids Find Online Privacy - Reason.com
Anthropologist danah boyd (uncapitalization hers) is the author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (Yale University Press). In May, she told reason three ways kids find privacy online.…

September 15 2014, 4:23pm | Comments
Bookmark The Revolutionary Technique That Quietly Changed Machine Vision Forever | MIT Technology…
In space exploration, there is the Google Lunar X Prize for placing a rover on the lunar surface. In medicine, there is the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize for developing a Star…

September 15 2014, 4:23pm | Comments
Projects 'Ways Of Something' Episode 2 Premiere at Transfer Gallery

September 3 2014, 6:07am | Comments

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