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Please join us for our last Digital Aesthetics event of the AY 24-25: an AI & Media Roundtable, with Sun-ha Hong, Johan Fredrikzon, Julia Irwin, and Hank Gerba on May 20, 5-7pm PT. Abstracts and bios can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Zoom for the day of: tinyurl.com/5n8mdpbb

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“Streaming Capital” — Thomas Pringle at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, April 29, 2025 Please join the Digital Aesthetics Workshop in welcoming Thomas Pringle, who will present “Streaming Capital: Digital Aesthetics and Natural Infrastructure” on Tuesday, April 29, from 5:00-7:00pm PT. The event will…

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“where do old sounds go to die?” and “murnau model” — Critical Making Collaborative, May 16, 2025 The Critical Making Collaborative at Stanford invites you to our Spring event — an evening of sharing and discussion with two recipients of the Critical Making Award, Lemon Guo and J. Makary, who will…

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“Forms in Motion” — Kartik Nair at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, April 25, 2025 Please join us in welcoming our next speaker at the Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Kartik Nair, who will present on "Forms in Motion: Elemental Effects in Contemporary Cinema" on Friday, April 25, 1:00-3:00pm PT. The…

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Unintended Outcomes: AI in the Artist’s Studio — Roundtable at SF Art Fair, April 20, 2025 This coming Sunday, April 20, I'll be on a roundtable with Halim Madi, Jill Miller, and Asthma Kazmi, moderated by Kate Hollenbach, organized by Gray Area at the San Francisco Art Fair. In today’s cultural…

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Join us this Thursday at the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference for a roundtable on technics and media with Yijun Sun, Tom Gunning, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, @profmamamama.bsky.social, and @sconce.bsky.social! Thanks to @scmsmst.bsky.social for sponsoring. #SCMS25

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If you happen to be at #SCMS25 in Chicago next week, I'll be on this panel on "Synthetic Media" on Friday at 2:15pm, along with Rakesh Sengupta, Nadine Chan, and David Cecchetto. It should be fun!

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“The Productivity of Artificial Flatness” — Sybille Krämer at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, April 8, 2025 We're delighted to welcome our next speaker for the Digital Aesthetics Workshop, the first of the Spring quarter. Sybille Krämer present on "The Productivity of Artificial Flatness: On…

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have you ever thought: I don't know Foucault, maybe knowledge isn't only for cutting? or: I'm not sure it's true that Nietzsche has two different concepts of origin in the preface to the Genealogy of Morals? you might be interested in my new article, open access from @theoryculturesociety.org!

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Our first title in the film|minutes series, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN by @shanedenson.bsky.social reactivates the familiar classic for contemporary audiences! Each volume divides films into one minute segments as an tool for analysis--and it's #OpenAccess! Out Sept. 2025 myumi.ch/xwpyA

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Forthcoming later this year from @leverpress.bsky.social, the first book in our film|minutes series, this one on BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN by @shanedenson.bsky.social. services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/B/Brid... You're not only going to want the book, you're going to want to read alongside the movie!

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“Computing, Intimately” — Scott Richmond at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, March 14, 2025 We're delighted to welcome our next speaker for the Digital Aesthetics Workshop: Scott Richmond will present a hands-on demo, titled, “Computing, Intimately: On Computational Transitional Objects" on Friday,…

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Coming later this year from @leverpress.bsky.social! First book in our film|minutes series: leverpress.org/filmminutes

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Coming soon!

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Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes] Coming soon! Stay tuned for more info.

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“Borrowed Time: Mediating the Nonevental” — Rizvana Bradley at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, March 4, 2025 The Digital Aesthetics Workshop is looking forward to welcoming Rizvana Bradley, who will present “Borrowed Time: Mediating the Nonevental" on Tuesday, March 4, at 5-7pm PT. The event will…

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“Unit Operations” and “Alloy Resonator 0.2” — Critical Making Collaborative, March 10, 2025 The Critical Making Collaborative at Stanford invites you to an evening of sharing and discussion with two recipients of the Critical Making Award, Daniel Jackson and Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, who will…

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Midwestern US film/media folks, please share and circulate this CFP for the Midwest Graduate Film and Media Studies Symposium "Drawing (In)Attention" in Milwaukee on April 18-19. Keynote by Neil Verma. Apply by Feb 16 via the QR code or this link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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My first painting in 2025🎉 Acrylic on canvas, 36”x 24“, it’s part of a larger AI project that I’m working on with @shanedenson.bsky.social I also added a few new pieces to my website. Contact me if you are interested 😉 karindenson.com

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“A Sexual History of the Internet” — Mindy Seu at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Jan. 28, 2025 The Digital Aesthetics Workshop is proud to welcome Mindy Seu, who will present "A Sexual History of the Internet: Lecture Performance Beta Test" on Tuesday, January 28, 5-7pm PT. The event will take place…

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Artificial schematism (imagination)

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“People” keep on “posting” like they’re going to “win” an “argument” with “people” who want to destroy them

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"Flusser and Forgetting" is an essay reflecting on obsolescence through the lens of an MS-DOS system for accessing Flusser's work created by his son. Drawing on anecdotes from my time as an artist in residence at the Flusser Archive, it looks at how memories are inevitably plagued by erasure.

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Our TouchDesigner 101 course is the perfect opportunity to learn how to make interactive art and touch upon 3D geometry, rendering, textures, UI building, and more! Experiment with innovative image generation techniques to bring your artistic visions to life. Classes start Jan 25. Enroll here:

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I think everyone who has an opnion, good or bad, about LLMs, should read how @simonwillison.net has summer up what’s happened in the space this year. He’s the most credible, most independent, most honest, and most technically fluent person watching the space. simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

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omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain

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Don't know where I got this, but seems appropriate -- happy holidays!

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ChatGLP

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True but this was already happening when still-President Trump, diagnosed with Covid, showed up on the White House lawn in late 2020. Was it a deepfake? Was he dead? 💀

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Do with this what you will: I ordered something as a gift from Amazon, which was supposed to arrive by Dec 21. Delivery was delayed until Dec 27 due to the strike. I tried to cancel the order, but the AI bot said I couldn’t, since it had already shipped. /1

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Winter issue is here! Check out articles by Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Eve Houghton, Fredrik Renard, Martha Schwendener, James Graham, Gabriel Levine, Fabio Morabito, Kate van Orden, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Tom Stammers, and Erin Johnson-Williams. criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/past_issues/...

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