"Photographie et écologie" de Lisa Mazenauer, le troisième volume de la collection Superscripte. Textes sur la photographie contemporaine, est sorti ! Vous le trouverez en librairie ou en téléchargement (gratuit) sur www.centrephotogeneve.ch/fr/pages/sup...
Le Centre de la photographie Genève inaugure une série d’essais sur la photographie, dont le deuxième volume s’intéresse aux formes d’exposition du médium.
Par Zoé Isle de Beauchaine.
Steyerl challenges us to recognise the vast scale of AI’s ubiquity and also to realise its ‘artificial stupidity’ artreview.com/hito-steyerl...
Hmm, there seems to be an army of bots with my name on X 🤔
Imagenet really seems to think that I am a (very) bad guy… If in Paris, do check out the Jeu de Paume fantastic AI exhibition.
Seine Pool-Bilder machten David Hockney berühmt, seine Lebenslust macht ihn unsterblich – selbst 70 Jahre passioniertes Rauchen können ihm wenig anhaben. Jetzt lädt die Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris den 87-Jährigen ein, ihr gesamtes Haus zu bespielen. Wir stellen Höhepunkte seiner Laufbahn vor
“This essay traces the transatlantic trade in mercury and silver through its replacement by nineteenth-century transpacific and intra-American networks, underscoring the imperial relationships and labor histories that underlie photography’s mineral dependencies.”
Another "AI" company faces fraud charges, as Filipino workers powered its app. #DiPLab has been documenting cases like this since 2027. Not just small startups cutting corners: Google, Amazon have been caught doing it. Not just a few rotten apples, either. This 💩 is systematic.
Currently reading writing assignments of écal master photography students #cuteness #design 😍
Terrifying on so many levels...
Just reposting this fantastic article by Matthew Allen for the CCA on the visual proximity between 1980s architectural CGI renderings and cyberpunk anime (in FR or ENG): www.cca.qc.ca/fr/articles/...
Si vous êtes à Lausanne samedi 29 mars, rejoignez-nous pour la lancement de la collection Superscripte, avec les autrices et les graphistes du projet, à 10h00 à MSBWB.ch 🥐☕️ 📗 Infos sur >https://www.centrephotogeneve.ch/event/booklaunch-superscripte-2/
Call for Papers: Liken – Tiktoken – Prompten: Medienpraktiken im Diskurs. Individuelle und kollektive Handlungsmuster der (Post-)Digitalität #cfp #soziologie
Two photorealistic images side by side. The image on the left shows a slice of raw salmon moving sliding over water with the "Salmon Floating" caption underneath. The image on the right shows a salmon swimming on the water with the same "Salmon Floating" caption underneath.
Today we have a #ScreenWalk with Leon-Etienne Kühr and Ting-Chun Liu (who shared this image on their presentation on the last CCC) doing a live-coding spiral/recursive/feedbackloop experiment with GenAI models.
You can join us at 7pm CET on screenwalks.com
Botober 2024 Art prompts generated by very tiny language models 1. Collide Loopstorm 16. Cabled Sins 2. OMG Power 17. Bogma 3. Evil Gold 18. Ruinstrees 4. Song of the Booty 19. Hellbrawk 5. Great Flake 20. Scarlet Chaos 6. Popchop 21. Grandma's Spritches 7. Deathmop 22. Low Fuzzy Feats 8. Fuzzy Night 23. Bars* 9. Holy Ship 24. Hallowy Maples 10. Distracting Sphere 25. Hobbats 11. Tart of Death 26. The Snawk 12. Hold Mouse 27. Garbage Plant 13. Sprange 28. The Shark Knight 14. Womp Mittens 29. Cinder Frankenstein 15. Snuggle Features 30. Handy Panda 31. Goddass Selected from vintage neural net results aiweirdness.com
I found mine and @friendsofbear.bsky.social ‘s 2025 Kitten Name List.
Marisa Merz war Autodidaktin und wurde im Kreise der männlichen Arte-Povera-Helden lange übersehen. In Bern wird sie nun endlich als eigenständige Stimme hörbar
The whole series looks amazing - delighted to be in such great company! All talks are online and open to all, but you must register: www.eventbrite.com/cc/towards-a...
🇮🇹 TORINO! 🇮🇹
The largest ever display of my Virtual Cyanotype Botany series will take place at OGR Torino as part of Exposed photography festival 2025.
Almost Real. From Trace to Simulation:
Alan Butler, Nora Al-Badri, Lawrence Lek.
16 Apr-2 June.
ogrtorino.it/events/expos...
Starting in two months from now, the American Academy in Rome pays tribute to six women who played a key role in applying photography to archaeology.
I wonder what our inability to envision new (fictional) futures since the 80s tells us about our ability to cope with the present...
UbuWeb, a pirate library of avant-garde artifacts, closed in 2024. But last month, they started the site back up again. “Archiving reemerges as a strong form of resistance, a way of preserving crucial, subversive, and marginalized forms of expression.” [ubu.com]
Quite problematic indeed. Nice to be pirated alongside my (deceased) dad, though 🙂.
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
"California legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track & disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training...it’s an impossible standard that could crush small AI startups & developers...."
Trash take.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping:
www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...
Mein kleiner Text über die grossangelegten Datenbanksäuberungen und Bildzensurkampagnen in den USA sow die veränderte Rolle von digitalen Bildarchiven angesichts generativer KI ist jetzt auch online frei verfügbar www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Tomorrow Wednesday we are hosting a Screen Walk with Hortense Boulaise-Ifrène exploring semiabandoned online worlds. She will be focusing on Chris Marker’s Ouvroir in Second Life and the now-defunct world of Microsoft AltSpaceVR, looking at how these strangely preserved yet abandoned spaces are […]
This two-day event on AI and Identity at Aarhus University on 22-23 May 2025, which includes a one-day workshop for PhD students, might be of interest to the PhD community in arts / humanities / social sciences. Featuring a keynote from Olga Goriunova.
darc.au.dk/blog/nyhed/a...
A voir à Forde à Genève👇
fordz.ch/fr
The cover of issue 58 of The Funambulist, depicting a set of keys with a pink unicorn figurine
A spread from Taysir Batniji's Just in Case #2 installation -- a wall with a grid of photos of house keys; close ups of a few keys
A double-page spread featuring dozens of keys
From Funambulist 58: Return: Taysir Batniji's photos of keys to homes destroyed by Israeli bombs
