Tag: artificial-intelligence

  • Are All Images now Poor Images?

    Are All Images now Poor Images?

    Response to Poor Image This incredible article written by Hito Steyerl in 2009 analyzed the material conditions of the poor digitized image to a tee. The analysis is so on point that I feel this piece read the trend of corporate media to invest in profiting off of the digital ecosystem. “Digital communication has also…

  • An Ode To Bridges

    An Ode To Bridges

    iterated on sand castles: project link here I walked past the Manhattan Bridge the other day. It made me stop and wonder. How many workers did it take to build the whole thing? How many setbacks? How did anybody get people to agree to actually go out into the water and lift each stone to its…

  • A Symphony of Guessing

    A Symphony of Guessing

    coding project link From the prompt, the question that stood out to me the most was: “What do [neural networks] offer as media for our internal life?” Currently, my relationship for Large Language Models is one of pure function and text, not media or art. I ask Claude to help with my code. The model…

  • Listening and Recording with P5.js

    Listening and Recording with P5.js

    As part of our eventual Final Project for ICM and Physical Computing, Trusha and I decided to use this ICM Homework to test how well P5.js can listen and record conversation. We want to do this for our larger goal of using technology to help people remember interactions and make note-taking social interactions seamless and…

  • Digital Playthings: AI Chatbots, Dating, and Who is Playing Who

    Digital Playthings: AI Chatbots, Dating, and Who is Playing Who

    Prompt: Why do you consider this synthetic media? What can you find out about how this was made (if you can)? If it’s machine learning based, can you find information about the data set used to train it? What are the ethical ramifications of this specific example (if any)? These days, AI’s increasing prevalence on…