Author: aadebling
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Welcome to RANI
RANI does not draw a map of the territory, but a contour that does not stop at the edge. Some work-in-progress screenshots from today. We’ll be sharing more about RANI soon!
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Alternative Book of Revelations
DURING THE ELECTRONIC DARK AGES :In the second century of the Third Millennium: crisis in the West. Under the leadership of Artificial Intelligence, the man-machine war came to a standstill over the issue of the singularity; the question of artificial intelligence:Who is in charge? Who is to be sacrificed in the name of progress and […]
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“The robots are working…”
We’ve spoken a lot about the connection between robots and forced labour (the word “robot” is taken directly from the Czech word for work). We’ve asked how ethical it is to ask machines to do unpaid work for us. We’ve wondered if these machines have fun while learning to play human games, or if it’s […]
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Realist means…
For today’s exercise I worked with three lines from Bertolt Brecht’s text, “On Realism and Popularity”. Brecht’s political work aimed to redefine realism, shifting the definition away from its traditional associations with the use of copious “naturalistic” description. Instead, Brecht envisioned works that stripped reality of its masks, revealing the constructed-ness of images, stories and […]
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A Sea of Data
Noise. Lines. Color patterns. According to leaked training manuals, one needs to apply all sorts of massively secret operations to produce these kinds of images. But let me tell you something. I will decrypt this image for you without any secret algorithm … And I will even teach you ho to do it for free. […]
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…and losing and finding…
…and losing and finding and losing and finding and losing… (a sense of self, a sense of direction, a sense of purpose, a sense of time) …and losing and finding and losing and finding and losing…
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Subversion is…
Subversion is as hot pink as a baboon’s behind. It’s the scratch of a record in reverse. Subversion is empowerment. I took a fairly literal approach to choosing my objects/triggers here. I think next time I might choose different objects that “subvert” the viewer’s expectations… I like where the text begins to break down at […]
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A Crescent Moon Rises
The birds are tweeting in the woods. A chair is thumping on the floor. The record plays in reverse. A yellow crescent moon is rising, now orange, now hot pink, as a baboon’s behind. What colour is subversion? What is the sound of critique? What shape is a celebration? These aren’t questions I could have […]
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