But I am arguing that ignorance of, or strictly superficial engagement with, technology is creating similar blind spots in art as the same behaviors toward gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and geography did in the past.

By and large, we in the traditional art world are not doing the research. We are not engaging earnestly with unfamiliar communities. We are not questioning the story being blasted out to us by the people with the loudest, most expensive megaphones.

But it’s still early. The mainstream narrative on art and machine learning has not settled yet. We can still correct the distortions.

What a brief history of creative destruction reveals about the Sotheby’s shredding stunt

Participants were asked to code a still life portrait using HTML and CSS.

NNTPChan (previously known as overchan) is a decentralized imageboard that uses the NNTP protocol (network-news transfer protocol) to synchronize content between many different servers. It utilizes cryptographically signed posts to perform optional/opt-in decentralized moderation.

Introducing Times Newer Roman, a font that kinda looks like Times New Roman, except each character is 5-10% wider.
Fulfill lengthy page requirements with hacked margins, adjusted punctuation sizing, and now, Times Newer Roman!

"Do not bring politics in software"

In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.

Anatomy of an AI System
The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources

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