"Calculating Images" title on background of clouds in purple and blue

On Thursday, I will give a talk titled "Calculating Images" at the arteciencIA symposium in Santiago de Compostela. The conference will be streamed, so you are welcome to join us remotely. My talk is 13:00-14:00 CEST. More info here: arteciencia.org

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oh..🙄
my interests.. mayhem and disaster

✦ 𝐴 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑓 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝐼 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 ✦ essay by #TegaBrain & #SamLavigne for the 𝗔re 𝗬ou 𝗔 𝗦oftware 𝗨pdate? book 🔖

✨ Preview and order here > aksioma.org/are-you-a-software-update

how I snort-laughed to this🫢

Over the next three years, I will examine, intervene in, and reflect on current discourse on artificial intelligence in artistic practice. More details to come!

The project will be conducted at i2ads at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto thanks to funding from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through their CEEC program in support of scientific employment.

one of the most creative - and most needed - ways in which artists can use Al is by telling better stories about AI, while also imag- ining better ways of living with AL (Joanna Zylinska 2020, 31) quote on a purple background

As Joanna Zylinska describes, “one of the most creative — and most needed — ways in which artists can use AI is by telling better stories about AI." In this project, I hope to work with other artists and thinkers to answer Joanna's appeal to tell better stories about AI.

one of the most creative - and most needed - ways in which artists can use Al is by telling better stories about AI, while also imag- ining better ways of living with AL (Joanna Zylinska 2020, 31) quote on a purple background

This has been in the works for more than a year, but I can finally say that today I began the contract for my research project Contextualizing Artistic Practice with Artificial Intelligence.

We are in our teens and we are not afraid to rebel.
No cap.

#xcoax2026 #torino

OpenAI funding fears hit memory chip prices Spending cuts at OpenAI have hit memory chip prices as fears grow about the tech company’s ability to fund its expansion.

Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.

do you follow @csmfht.bsky.social ? I feel like you would love it

😆that's so cool. I look forward to following

Yes, they do such an excellent job of cutting through the hype and also clarifying the facts. I'm reading these closely for a research project on discourse around AI and art, so these are essential reading in my opinion!

Thank you! Oh wow, your podcast looks great, I can imagine your TBR collection must be huge!

Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Hito Steyerl, Medium Hot.
Joanna Zylinska, AI Art
Margaret A. Boden and Ernest A. Edmonds, From Fingers to Digits
Ed. Patricio Dávila, Diagrams of Power
Sofian Audry, Art in the Age of Machine Learning
(3/3)

Dan McQuillan, Resisting AI
J. F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
Anna Munster, Deep Aesthetics
Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna, the AI Con How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype
And Create the Future We Want
Grant D. Taylor, When the Machine Made Art
(2/3)

Photograph of a stack of books on AI and art: Eds. Ilan Manouach & Anna Engelhardt, Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition Matteo Pasquinelli, the Eye of the Master Dan McQuillan, Resisting AI J. F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI Anna Munster, Deep Aesthetics Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna, the AI Con How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype And Create the Future We Want Grant D. Taylor, When the Machine Made Art Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism Hito Steyerl, Medium Hot. Joanna Zylinska, AI Art Margaret A. Boden and Ernest A. Edmonds, From Fingers to Digits Ed. Patricio Dávila, Diagrams of Power Sofian Audry, Art in the Age of Machine Learning

my last post was met with a lot of enthusiasm over on instagram, so I am going to start posting more reading recommendations.
Here's the reading list for this stack:
Eds. Ilan Manouach & Anna Engelhardt, Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition
Matteo Pasquinelli, the Eye of the Master
(1/3)

photo of a stack of books on AI and art

can you tell I'm doing a lit review?🙄

Afroman wins legal battle over songs mocking US police The rapper was sued after releasing an entire album ridiculing the officers who raided his home.

not gonna read anything on the NYPost, but there's a BBC article: www.bbc.com/news/article...

😅I did wonder, because it seems really fitting

we need you to also do Peter Thiel.. Sam Altman.. series of evil tech dudes?

so accurate😩

Come study with us!👾❤️🤖

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

😅

I've been thinking this seems to be a premise for an incarcerated workforce to run AI/surveillance😬

I think they deleted it and then posted this: bsky.app/profile/404m...

this was my next question😂😭

really well written and concise perspective on it + I loved the part about "fucking Microsoft or whoever invented vapes."😆