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World Imagining Game
Benjamin Hall Frances Lingard
2023-06
The World Imagining Game invites you to play through the lifecycle of new virtual worlds from creation to culmination.
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The Performativity of Ground-Truth Data
Milagros Miceli Tianling Yang
2023-09
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History and environmental impact of digital image formats
Jon Sneyers
2023-08
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“You can’t look into my eyes.” The Aesthetics of Small-File Cinema
Yani Kong Laura Marks
2023-05
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Nouf.io
TPG
2023-08
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DOT cam
TPG
2023-08
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Atlas of the Cloud
TPG
2023-08
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Delete By Default
Jon Uriarte
2023-04
This article speculates how photography could evolve to face the challenges that the networked image and the environmental emergency has brought forward. It suggests a radical change in the visual cultures developed along with the adoption of a new file format.
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Small File Photo Festival
TPG
2023-01
The Small File Photo Festival is a mini festival and online exhibition encouraging and celebrating small size photography
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A·kin
Aarati Akkapeddi
2022-10
A·kin is a project by Aarati Akkapeddi exploring human and non human categorisation of photographic archives.
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When I image the earth, I imagine another
open-weather
2021-11
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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New Images: The Ecological Footprint Of Photography
TPG
2023-08
New critical writing that sheds light on photography’s environmental impact in its various aspects through newly commissioned articles written by international authors
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Candy-Glazed Eyes of Haunted Machines
TPG
2023-08
A project by Rosalie Yu that considers coin-operated children’s rides, which arrived in Taiwan in the form of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu characters from colonial powers in relation to labour, ownership …
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Machine Unlearning
TPG
2023-08
Machine unlearning is an emergent subfield of machine learning that aims to remove the influence of a specific subset of training examples — the "forget set" — from a trained model
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Classifying Humans
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2023-07
An article by Linda Kronman that "analyses the cybernetic loop between human and machine classification by examining artworks that depict instances of bias when machine vision is classifying humans …
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Inside the AI factory
TPG
2023-07
A deep dive into annotation for machine learning, with an increasing focus on emotional content and contexts
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First generation women workers in Indian towns and villages employed as annotators
TPG
2023-07
Artificial intelligence may make some jobs obsolete but it has given a new life to a group of people who play an unglamorous but critical role in machine learning: first generation women workers in …
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Self-driving cars are here and they’re watching you
TPG
2023-07
This is not the self-driving future we were promised – but it is the one that surveillance and privacy experts have warned about.
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Is AI Killing the Stock Industry? A Data Perspective
TPG
2023-06
An analytic website for stock photographers found that the average revenue per image per month or AI images is a whopping four and a half times bigger than photos or any other format.
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3 cgi models of babies designed for the Sims game, wearing hats with rabbit ears and in different poses. Text overlaid on the image says "Ebonix Infant Starter Pack Part Two. 3 hats, 3 socks, 3 bibs + bonus gift.

Infant Starter Pack
TPG
2023-06
A pack of 3D assets for The Sims 4 by Ebonix
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A Vernacular of File Formats
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2023-06
Rosa Menkman asks 'what kind of accuracy will be necessary and what software or hardware will render the image?'
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Nephogram
TPG
2023-06
Nephogram is a free app that calculates how many grams of CO2 are emitted by the photos we share on social media.
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Our smartphone cameras are not ready for the effects of climate change
TPG
2023-06
Smartphones are not capturing the reality of wildfires
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A grid of images from a scientific paper. A basket of apples is changed to be a basket of cookies, oranges, chocolates or kittens; or a bowl, box or nest of apples

Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross-Attention Control
TPG
2023-05
A team of researchers pursue an intuitive prompt-to-prompt editing framework, where image edits are controlled by text only.
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An illustration of a scientific paper showing how images are maniputed: A lion opens its mouth and turns its head; a car rotates; a cat winks; a mountain rises; and a woman changes pose.

Drag Your GAN
TPG
2023-05
Through DragGAN, anyone can deform an image with precise control over where pixels go
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AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are
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2023-05
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Archive of Lost Mothers
TPG
2023-04
Computational-mama's speculative archive emerges from 'a secret scientific society that suppressed radical new birthing, new womxn beings developing limbs and post human babies.'
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