Category: algo
The Machine Gaze
Our relationship with the world is increasingly mediated by machines – watching what we do online and off, profiling our behaviour, choosing the content we see and interfering with our perception of reality. Our behaviour…
#endofdays(2021)
Historically, signs and portents of the apocalypse were clear and concise – an unexpected eclipse, a failed crop, a murder of crows or the birth of a two-headed calf. These days the apocalypse is simultaneously…
Orange Marilyns
Warhol started a series of works of Marilyn Monroe shortly after her death in 1962, based on a publicity photo of Monroe, from her 1953 film Niagara. “I guess it was the big plane crash…
Muybridge Manipulations
Eadweard Muybridge was a Victorian English photographer who is most noted for his studies of human and animal locomotion. He used multiple cameras to capture stop-motion photographs of humans and animals, and invented one of…
This Bacon Does Not Exist
Anyone who cares about painting, loves Francis Bacon. His private life of violence, drink and gambling, combined with the often disturbing forms found in his art made him one of the more fascinating artists of…
(AI)dentity
As individuals, we have a personal identity. As members of a community we have broader, shared identities, alongside our individual nuances. From these shared identities, tribes, communities and societal structures have emerged. When meeting new…
The G(AN) 8
The ‘Group of Eight’ or G8 is an intergovernmental organisation made up of representatives of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, and the EU. The group has been meeting…
Kubla Khan vs AI
I am fascinated by CLIP guided neural interpretations of text. There’s something delightful about the interplay between the metaphorical language of poetry and the dream-like hallucinations of the net. Some of the lines produced amazing…