Tag: writing
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Response to The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin’s classic 1935 essay still has more meaningful things to say about art, politics, and modes of production than most of our discourse today. I felt this incongruity between past and current thought most in his passages on the use of distraction in filmmaking. Benjamin writes, “A man who concentrates before a work of…
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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…
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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…
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Trapped in Fragments
project code demo Each of us unfortunately is a product of our time. We all now live in a time of fragmentation. As Pinker notes, language itself is a marvelous intricate discrete combinatory system of words and logic that allows us to connect with one another, the construction of language is not in a vacuum.…
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Pre-Thesis: Best Foot Forward
Prompt: Progress update 1: Inquiry space + inspiration repository. What is an Inquiry Space? An inquiry space is essentially my creative research territory—a visual map of the fields, themes, media, and techniques that spark my curiosity and will drive me toward my thesis. Rather than diving randomly into an overwhelming amount of research, mapping my…
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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…
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Project: Masculine Movements in American Football
Concept With the help of my group (Michael, Galt, and Summer), I want to explore the emotional and cultural relationship between the movements of male athletes on the American football field, how this creates emotional bonds between competitors as well as spectators. Inspiration This concept of exploring masculine movements in American football emerged from my…
Ryan Rotella 