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Beyond Scrolls & Screens is a new experiment by Christine Surgue and Google Arts. Using object recognition, it allows users to explore and jump back and forth between reoccuring visual elements in high-resolution scans of screens and scrolls from the Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, and Tachibana Museum collections.
“We need to be very thoughtful about which parts of Korg’s tradition that we want to incorporate and take on.”
Joanne McNeil
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
“Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI” opens at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, proposing “new ways of thinking about intelligence, nature, and artifice.” In showing works by Zach Blas, Ian Cheng, Simon Denny, Stephanie Dinkins, Trevor Paglen (image), Hito Steyerl, Martine Syms, and others, curator Claudia Schmuckli brings together essential artistic positions that parse the strange and unsettling intricacies of human-machine relations.
“What makes her book such a fun read is that it’s not exactly the comprehensive survey its title implies. Instead, it’s as much memoir as exegesis, an idiosyncratic front-line report from a deeply informed, intrepid, and passionate pioneer who is still in the trenches.”
Eyal Weizman, the founder of the activist research studio Forensic Architecture, has been barred entry into the United States. Informed by email that his right to travel to the U.S. had been revoked, he learned in a subsequent embassy visit that an algorithm had identified a security threat that “could be related to something he was involved in, people he had been in contact with, places he had visited, hotels at which he had stayed, or a pattern of relations among those.” These unsubstantiated claims have left him unable to attend his retrospective exhibition at Dade College’s Museum of Art and Design in Miami, that opens next week.
Neural 64
Post-Growth
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of one of Humanity’s most iconic (and existentially wrought) images, NASA releases a new version of the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ photo of Earth.
“Just last week I reduced global emissions by an estimated 59.000 kg CO2 per month by removing a 20 kB JavaScript dependency in Mailchimp for WordPress. There’s no way I can have that kind of effect in other areas of my life.”
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