Happy to share that The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities will be available as paperback in September 2023. This makes the book more affordable beyond libraries. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Remix-Studies-and-Digital-Humanities/Navas-Gallagher-burrough/p/book/9780367361426?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2_Ls9sibgAMVzcfICh1MZAoOEAAYASAAEgL3QPD_BwE

The link was broken. This is the updated link: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/article-can-algorithms-make-art-on-eduardo-navass-the-rise-of-metacreativity/

Review of my book: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/article-can-algorithms-make-art-on-eduardo-navass-the-rise-of-metacreativity/

Cory Doctorow: Social Quitting
https://locusmag.com/2023/01/commentary-cory-doctorow-social-quitting/
'As I type these words, a mass exodus is underway from Twitter and Facebook. After decades of eye-popping growth, these social media sites are contracting at an alarming rate.

In some ways, this shouldn’t surprise us. All the social networks that preceded the current generation experienced this pattern: SixDegrees, Friendster, MySpace, and Bebo all exploded onto the scene. One day, they were sparsely populated fringe services, the next day, every­one you knew was using them and you had to sign up to stay in touch. Then, just as quickly, they imploded, turning into ghost towns, then punchlines, then forgotten ruins.

This didn’t happen to Facebook and Twitter. Both attained a scale and durability that exceeded the networks that preceded them. For many people, it seemed like the operators of these services had cracked the nut of making eternal social media. Maybe it was their access to the capital markets, which let them hire better engineering teams? Maybe it was the singular genius of their founders and leaders? Maybe it was luck?

Today, it’s getting harder to believe that these networks will last forever. In the blink of an eye, they’ve gone from unassailable eternal mountains to shifting sands that might blow away at any time. Users are scrambling to download their data and tell their friends where they can be found if (when?) the service disappears.' @doctorow

The three Cs: Credit, Consent, Compensation
"many artists are primarily looking for credit, consent and compensation from AI art generation companies"
“The developers could have treated artists as partners and stakeholders, rather than raw material to train on,”
@randomwalker says.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/02/14/ai-in-illustration/

@markcmarino I don’t bother keeping up. SM is dying out… it’s evolving into something we cannot fully know but we can be better off by using as needed. I’m much more productive now, and use any acct when I actually want to say or learn something. Most academics have fallen for intellectual FOMO.

Just released this project. A reflection on ChatGPT: http://navasse.net/10chatqs/

Shocked by chatGPT? Want to think about the future of writing or writing instruction? Join us May 1! Interactive proposals due Feb 20.

http://bit.ly/cfpfutureofwriting23

#openai #teachingwriting #eliterature

I asked #Dalle for an inspirational #HumpDay poster and it gave me camels.

Yes, I realize I have a whole book coming out about the perils of #AI but goddamn I love the way it throws chaos into the chain of signification sometimes

Leaving other valid criticisms to the side, some to which I am not qualified to speak, I am befuddled at the fact that some of my friends and colleagues don’t see the opportunity to escape from corporate, commercial social media and internet experiences as an incredible win and major breakthrough.

Is this where I can hide from NFT spam?

Can we build a decentralized Internet that doesn't depend on tech giants? Watch Microsoft researcher and RadicalxChange founder Glen Weyl argue for a web3 where trust comes from social ties in this interactive recording of Monday's webinar From Platforms to Protocols, organized by @DigitCurator.

https://digitalcuration.umaine.edu/teleconferences/dig_weyl_teleconf_2022.html

#web3 #decentralise #blockchain #privacy #NFT #Mastodon #Matrix #SSB #identity #disinformation #governance #p2p

Now that the 15-year-old stranglehold that Twitter and Facebook/Meta have kept on the public sphere is loosening, we'll be looking at decentralized alternatives with Glen Weyl in the next teleconference from @DigitCurator this Monday at 11am Eastern https://blog.still-water.net/can-the-next-web-solve-the-internets-problems

#web3 #decentralise #blockchain #privacy #NFT #Mastodon #Matrix #SSB #identity #disinformation #governance #p2p

Excited to see this new book on Live Coding go live! by Alan Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Thor Magnusson.

#critcode

This is my first post on Mastodon. I am an artist, writer, and media reseacher. I teach and do research in the School of Visual Arts, College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State. Today my book “The rise of Metecreativity: AI Arsthetics After Remix” is available in all major book retailers. You can find information here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003164401/rise-metacreativity-eduardo-navas #remix #remixstudies #remixculture #aiaesthetics