Media Artist. Weird Machines. VR Fembot. Cyberfem. Assistant Prof @ Umich FTVM & Digital Studies Institute. in Detroit, hmu
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"'Yes I am autistic in a certain sense,' says Laruelle with a sparkle in his eye, 'like a particle that passes through a mountain'" AG
CWD is a prion disease. I wrote about the terror of prions before yvettegranata.com/NonMother Unlike a virus they have no DNA. They are architectures that mutate life into the shape of itself. Vaccines are not possible. Post prion, people will beg for viruses
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"In Latin, Greek and early English and French, almost all abstract ideas are feminine, such as truth, liberty, beauty and justice," he said. "Why are abstract concepts feminine? No one has ever been able to solve that."
There’s nothing to solve here.
Some artists say they trained their own AI models when really they customized a pre-trained diffusion model. It’s like saying you made a painting when you made a collage. Just say the actual process. It’s ok. A collage is ok to make.
This past weekend I gave keynote lecture on Promiscuous Ontologies & Making VR Art in Times of Crisis at the SUNY Buffalo Media Study Grad conference held at Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art. Panels were a mix of analog interventions + pessimism + artistic rage. V enjoyable
There was a third gender during the Roman Empire - eunuchs. Castration served an important political purpose. Just saying.. if they want to bring back a full on Empire, don’t be half-assed about it.
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i am no economist but the situation with AI is pretty simple. training AI models is very capital-intensive, and, historically, capital-intensive technologies consolidate wealth.
The XR/XF: Extended Realities, Extended Feminisms exhibition is open officially! Curated by myself and Alina Nazmeeva. The full program is at xrxf.net
The exhibition takes place in a custom shipping container, the XR/XF pod, installed in Ann Arbor, MI
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Spread the word! I'm looking to hire a 1-year postdoc at Stanford: HAI Postdoctoral Fellow with concentration in AI, Art, and Aesthetics blog.shanedenson.com/?p=5776
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The Peruvian team withdrew their XR experience from the IDFA DocLab: Phenomenal Friction, Claudix Vanesix, Juan Pablo TantaVilca and Lorena Garcia.
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Are you into feminism? Are you into technology?
TRICK QUESTION!!!!
The answer doesn't matter, because either way, you should register for the free online talk tomorrow night hosted by @squeakybuffalo with @mindyseu about her book "The Cyberfeminism Index": squeaky.org/event/mindy-seus…
AI tries to poison us, the weapon of choice of the Girl
@bognamk
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Took a Lethal Dose of Herbs is part of the official selection at FIVARS Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories in Toronto! Opens tomorrow, Sept 15-19 @fivarstories
fivars.net/category/stories/…… #vr #virtualreality #xr #immersivestories
Hey kids, apply to this post doc fellowship in my department. Applications due Jan 7 apply.interfolio.com/131042
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if u sweeties wanna see me doing angelic transhumanism in @WIRED , today is your day wired.com/story/girls-online…
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Heads up: open call for LAB#03 project proposals working with/at Madrid Medialab Matadero. I am a mentor in this fantastic program along with Bani Brusadin and Bogna Konior. Deadline Sept 17th.
Distributed cognition, cybernetics, non-human intelligences, strong AI, complex systems, alien semiotics.... LAB#03 proposes to go beyond the purely technological to the very essence of what we mean by 'intelligence'.
▷ You have until 17 Sept
+ medialab-matadero.es/en/anno…
