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jmpdp-11 retrocomputing raspberry-pi emulation computing history electronics digitalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ce92c7c1cc76/In The 2010s, We All Became Alienated By Technology2019-12-17T16:45:55+00:00
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/in-the-2010s-decade-we-became-alienated-by-technology
jmLooking back from the shaky edge of a new decade, it’s clear that the past 10 years saw many Americans snap out of this dream, shaken awake by a brutal series of shocks and dislocations from the very changes that were supposed to "create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace.” When they opened their eyes, they did indeed see that the Digital Nation had been born. Only it hadn’t set them free. They were being ruled by it. It hadn’t tamed politics. It sent them berserk. And it hadn’t brought people closer together. It had alienated them.
]]>alienation wired future 2010s america tech silicon-valley internet history digital cyberspacehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:57bf04285ab2/James Bridle / New Ways of Seeing2019-04-15T12:00:22+00:00
http://jamesbridle.com/new-ways-of-seeing
jmseeing vision machine-learning james-bridle internet digital future arthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:df41fb60972d/"The first AI portrait in Christie’s" was mostly output from someone else's open-source code2018-10-26T13:04:54+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/23/18013190/ai-art-portrait-auction-christies-belamy-obvious-robbie-barrat-gans
jmThe print was created by Obvious, a trio of 25-year-old French students whose goal is to “explain and democratize” AI through art. Over the past year, they’ve made a series of portraits depicting members of the fictional Belamy family, amplifying their work through attention-grabbing press releases. But insiders say the code used to generate these prints is mostly the work of another artist and programmer: 19-year-old Robbie Barrat, a recent high school graduate who shared his algorithms online via an open-source license.
The members of Obvious don’t deny that they borrowed substantially from Barrat’s code, but until recently, they didn’t publicize that fact either. This has created unease for some members of the AI art community, which is open and collaborative and taking its first steps into mainstream attention.[...]
Jason Bailey, a digital art blogger who runs the site Artnome, says that what Obvious has done is far from unusual. “It’s almost weekly in digital art that someone takes some open code and tweaks it and sells it,” he tells The Verge. But the prominence of this auction and the fact that Obvious, not Barrat, has received the attendant prestige and attention does complicate the matter. “There’s a lot of stuff you can do that’s legal, but that makes you sort of a jerk,” adds Bailey. “If I was Robbie, I’d be pretty miffed, and Obvious said they owe him a great deal of credit.”
Barrat says he holds no grudges at all and is mostly annoyed that the auction might give outsiders the wrong impression about AI art. “I’m more concerned about the fact that actual artists using AI are being deprived of the spotlight,” he says. “It’s a very bad first impression for the field to have.”
]]>ai art graphics history open-source ownership copyright obvious robbie-barrat digitalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ad6651156b48/The Impossible Music of Black MIDI2013-10-19T23:03:21+00:00
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/23/impossible-music-black-midi/
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http://conoroneill.net/our-replacement-for-sky-tv-cost-99-ariva-120
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http://jstn.cc/post/8692501831
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