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re_post : What [in the World] was Postmodernism? An Introduction – by David Ciccoricco

[image] mark amerika / jon vega / twine : filmtext v2.0 : http://www.markamerika.com/filmtext/ RE_POST : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FRIDAY 22 MAY 2015 DUNEDIN SYMPOSIUM TO OFFICIALLY END POSTMODERNISM A group of scholars and artists will gather the first week of June with one question on their minds: what was postmodernism?  The “What [in the World] was Postmodernism?” … Continue reading →

Upcoming Talk (National Library, Wellington): Surveillance, Privacy & Space in the Age of Social Media — Kathleen M. Kuehn, PhD

I’ll be giving a talk this Thursday on the way social media, digital apps and mobile technologies have turned ‘mapping’ into an everyday practice. We regularly ‘check in’, location-tag digital photos, create virtual maps, and publicise, write about and visually document our experience with and within space. As a result, the way we create, represent […] … Continue reading →

Spectacle, Speculation, Spam

a conversation between theory and practice (and lots more) by Alan Warburton: “A presentation I made for the Edge of Frame Weekend seminar at The Whitechapel gallery in East London, December 2016. Artists, curators and academics were asked to explore where experimental animation practice sits in relation to independent animation, visual art, histories and institutions. Rather than … Continue reading →

detection results — christopher valenti

http://christopher-valenti.com/detection-results/zr180r77tpitywuszetoedgq60r3rr   Continue reading →

Invisible Images

(Your Pictures Are Looking at You) http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/invisible-images-your-pictures-are-looking-at-you/ By TREVOR PAGLEN We need to learn how to see a parallel universe composed of activations, keypoints, eigenfaces, feature transforms, classifiers, training sets, and the like. But it’s not just as simple as learning a different vocabulary. Formal concepts contain epistemological assumptions, which in turn have ethical consequences. … Continue reading →

I’ve been impregnated with a false memory system.

“Then at one time an authentic Garland existed,” Phil Resch said. “And somewhere along the way got replaced.” His sharklike lean face twisted and he struggled to understand. “Or — I’ve been impregnated with a false memory system. Maybe I only remember Garland over the whole time. But — ” His face, suffused now with growing torment, continued … Continue reading →