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A·kin is a project by Aarati Akkapeddi exploring human and non human categorisation of photographic archives.

On the first day of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, a network of people operating DIY satellite ground stations around the world will capture a collective snapshot of the Earth.

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a black and white image of a face made up of letters

Think of ChatGPT as a blurry jpeg of all the text on the Web.

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A Screen Walks playlist of recorded live-streamed events touching on surveillance.

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an overview of the context of AI art making tools and connects media studies, new media art, and data ethics with current events and debates in AI and generative art.

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A Screen Walks playlist of recorded live-streamed events touching on intimacy.

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a series of parody videos on TikTok of a Russian street photographer's video style in which he approaches strangers, introduces himself and asks them to pose for pictures

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A screenshot of a google search result for 'dreamstime kitten play wool'

Stock photographers create more readable narrative figures.

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A Screen Walks playlist of recorded live-streamed events touching on ecology.

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A black and white pixelated close up image of a face

The timeline traces deep learning model milestones starting from the beginning of the “AI summer” in 2012.

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A Screen Walks playlist of recorded live-streamed events touching on history.

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AI images are data patterns inscribed into pictures, and they tell us stories about that dataset and the human decisions behind it.

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A Screen Walks playlist of recorded live-streamed events touching on virtual worlds and games.

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A pixelated grid of close up medical photographs of faces with black bars hiding their eyes

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A Screen Walks playlist of recorded live-streamed events touching on curating.

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A graphic titled "Adoption of loading="lazy" on img"

What is the state of media on the web in 2021?

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Shadow Growth explores how counter-visualisation techniques can be used to contest the pervasive images that promote an ideology of economic growth, while simultaneously obscuring its ecosystem harms.

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Careful Networks is a project that follows the principles of coding to care and coding carefully from the Distributed Web of Care initiative.

Interviews/

A cluster of screenshots of bugs and microprocessors

Joana Moll and Marloes de Valk discuss Joana’s project 4004, commissioned in 2021. Digging into the infrastructures at the heart of today’s digital technology, they discuss the role of art in the transition to a less polluting society.

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Collage of messages and images posted by telegran users in the channel dondehayenlahabana by nestor sire and steffen kohn

This website documents Basic Necessities, an online commission by Nestor Siré and Steffen Köhn on view on the Media Wall and unthinking.photography from 14 October 2021 to 10 January 2022.

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Small File Photo Festival

Sensing Worlds, a conversation with Jennifer Gabrys

Not spam: a conversation with Shelby Shaw

Messaging groups and the digital black-market in Cuba

Opting out is not enough

Samsung moon "space zoom" shots are fake

Memo Akten on the TikTok beauty filter [thread]

The amorphous feed

A·kin

When I image the earth, I imagine another

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

Screen Walks - Surveillance Playlist

Critical Topics: AI Images

Screen Walks - Intimacy Playlist

Do you speak English? I'm a Street Photographer

Imagewashing

Screen Walks - Ecology Playlist

Ten Years Of Image Synthesis

Screen Walks - History Playlist

How to read an AI image

Screen Walks - Virtual Worlds and Games

Private medical record photos in popular AI training data set

Screen Walks - Curating Playlist

The state of the media on the web in 2021

Shadow Growth

Careful Networks

Interview with Joana Moll

Basic Necessities