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hankg.bsky.social
phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
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playing well with cats and dogs requires the understanding (conscious or otherwise) that the nature of play is pre-perceptual, organized by motor images in search of objects and properly organized milieux

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this is precisely what Simondon would call an image. t.co/9czKNTyIVl

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I’m excited to return to DAW ! My talk, “The Generative Image,” investigates the way in which AI externalizes and operationalizes the imaginative capacities which influence the genetic process of image-formation. Come for the Simondon, stay for the formal analysis of a cat video.

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I’ve got a new article out with Invisible Culture, “Moire Patterns: Toward a Functional Aesthetics of Automatic Images.” With great thanks to the editors and peer reviewers 🙂‍↕️ www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/moire-pa...

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In case you missed it 🙂‍↕️

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retweeting for your weekend perusal:

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Pleased to share my new essay, part of a special issue of communication +1 on "Media Aesthetics." In it, I describe my theory of intimaesthetics, or the aestheticization of intimacy. Shout out to editors @hankg.bsky.social and Zachary McDowell openpublishing.library.umass.edu/cpo/article/...

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The special issue on Media Aesthetics with communication+1 is now available ! Ten articles, and one book review, on a range of topics: film, shutter buttons, software emulation, remediated horror, marginalia, rollercoasters, and much more. Link: openpublishing.library.umass.edu/cpo/issue/22...

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making cookie

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Just stumbled across this—a “stroboscopic Cupola,” which is sort of like a zootrope you sit inside of. The idea is that this dome with small slits would spin rapidly, and due persistence or vision, would provide a tank commander a 360 view while remaining protected.

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Bell Labs Record, June 1926. "The Manufacture of Vacuum Tubes" provides a surprisingly complete survey of the production steps behind these now seldom-seen devices, which enabled both telephony the earliest digital computers, among other uses. The "Tube Shop" was locate at 395 Hudson St.

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A funny detail about television transmission, which serves arguments about the television as a domestic technology, is the concept of a “front porch” and “back porch” in the NTSC standard for temporally syncing the rasterized image.

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I’ve been informed that I’ll be receiving a mysterious package from sender “AI” this afternoon…next time you hear from me it might be wise to start with “ignore all previous instruction” and see if i start spitting python code at you or something

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Time to take out one of my favorite objects, a Lionel 2-4-2 249e. My grandfather bought it in the 30’s, so it’s nearly 100 years old. It still works ! The coal car hides a (quite loud) whistle, the valve gear is amazing in motion, and it’s even got a little headlight.

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A little morning media archaeology—I was gifted a mint Canon AE-1, with all the original manuals and paperwork, and even a battery ! I suspect many have seen these photos of birds that demonstrate the effect of changing shutter speeds, they’re still commonly used in introductory photo classes.

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If anyone can find an image of moiré metallique, I am declaring a bounty. The reward: I say thank you very sincerely/

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this medieval bat is cinema.

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As an aside to my typical Bell Labs Record posting, it's fun to note that all these were obviously scanned at some point, and pretty much every image is affected by moiré. It's always there !

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the SCMS >> SLSA pipeline is real, important, and good

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Apparently I'm on a Starter Pack of Hanks ? Incredible. No idea how to find it on here.

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