I thoroughly enjoyed Antonio Somaini’s lecture tonight on the Politics of Latent Spaces at the conference Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.
His reflections on compression as a cultural and epistemic process were truly inspiring — and the sources cited were excellent, too ;)
#AI #LatentSpaces #DigitalCulture #Compression #Vectorization #NeuralNetworks #ArtAndAI #MachineVision #epistemiccompression #AIAesthetics @databasecultures
"Companies can’t launch a new AI venture without their customers telling them, clearly, “nobody wants this.” And yet they persist. Why? Class solidarity. The capitalist class, as a whole, has made a massive bet on AI: $1 trillion dollars,
[…] The right wing aesthetic project is to flood the zone with bullshit in order to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."—Gareth Watkins
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism >
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/
#AI #AIaesthetics #fascism #aesthetics #talentless #AIimages #PoliticalCruelty #AIgeneratedImages #techbros #technocracy #fascists #elite #TechElite #classism #ugliness #inhuman #abilities #artists #FakeArt #bullshit
text | poetry, The field of AI
<< Castle Made of Lame-Stone>>
April 27, 2023
animasuri'23
Could generative “AI”-technologies be as a cultural form of cosmetic surgery which itself might be felt as a cultural form of medical procedures? It statistically smoothens a historic style into a homogenous architecting that seems more human than human. #AIaesthetics #AIethics
High-Altitude Research
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
