Eryk Salvaggio

Wonderful newsletter from @null66913 on empty cinema — and perfect timing as I’m assembling a class lecture on the history of “no-camera cinema” myself!

Love Vilem! Been working on a post — this looks great! :)

Very excited for this! Mél’s podcast has been excellent.

Thanks for sharing! What a great resource your post is.

Zizek’s explanation of Ideology via “They Live” is excellent but you have to be very careful to contextualize who the aliens represent in that movie because sans context it really, really reads like an anti semitic trope

Great read through of (no, really) an early 1980s Franklin Computers instruction manual.

Dogs smell time, a wonderful piece of magic that only gets more interesting when you understand the science behind it.

Pretty key: the ArtNet story about Greg Rutkowksi no longer being able to find his own work online thanks to his name being part of so many prompts.

From @Melissahei on AI images and Lensa’s representations of gender:

“The visceral, sensual experience of an artwork is now bound up in often hazy attempts to assess its underlying connection to an algorithm.”

From @KevinBuist in @outland_art, “five notes on how artists might (or might not) find productive ways to use AI image generators.”:

This was a dataset deep dive worth mentioning from @benjedwards: