Watching
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Watching
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Trees on a screen
Midjourney prompt “A woman suspended in a non-physical space looking at trees on a screen.”...
Making in AI
I’ve recently been ‘playing around’ with AI image generation. I think of them as ‘text based work’ as the images come from the text prompts. You can get interesting images out of a basic text prompt, but if you have an idea about what you actually want it to...
Watching
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Silenced
DALL-E prompt “Stencil of a frightened woman’s face with a man’s hand covering her mouth.”...
Silence
DALL-E prompt “Shadowy black and white close-up photograph of a fearful woman’s face with a man’s hand grabbing her mouth.”...
Double Filter Test
I’ve tried a couple different techniques with this video from TikTok. It is a stop motion animation of the video played on my laptops screen with each photo taken with a 4 second open shutter on my iPhone (using manual settings on the ProCam app). I then used pieces...
Copies
Quantum physicists will tell you that there is fundamentally no difference between the real and digital worlds, and of course they are probably correct, but there is a difference between What We Know and How We Live. When we are online, it *feels* different to how it feels to...
Timotheus Vermeulen
Timotheus Vermeulen is a professor of media, culture and society at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the co-founder of the now defunct webzine Notes on Metamodernism and a regular contributor to frieze. His research and teaching are primarily in the disciplines of ‘screen studies’ and ‘critical and...
Lossy Compression
We are in this feedback loop, we condense our life into a trite tweet or a ‘pretty’ picture while constantly searching for ‘likes’ and ‘friends’ and ‘followers’. If we post about #Red and it gets more interaction than if we post about #Blue, we’ll end up posting more about...
Translate
I love how this weird, momentary glitch in the live in-camera translation of Google translate shows you two worlds in one image… Yet they have taken on the characteristics of their opposite. The real world appears ordered and the digital world is chaotic…...
And we’re off…
We had our first meeting yesterday and I met a few interesting people. Only ‘a few’ because I only got a chance to briefly talk to a few one on one. I’m sure we will have plenty more opportunities to get to know everyone. I need to do a...