Artist-Theorist working w AI since 2022. Scenographer | Artistic Director since 2000. Building Architectures of Agency @ Quantum Craft institute

NYC
Joined March 2011
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The AI Art Magazine documents artistic practices with and through AI, preserving something of the present in each printed edition. That record begins with an open call. What is taking shape in studios and across screens, in sustained practices as well as experiments whose direction is still unfolding, can find its way onto these pages when artists choose to share it. For Number 4, artists are warmly invited to submit one work and a few words about its making, whether an image, a moving image, a spatial work or a system. There is no set theme, and submitting is free. Around 50 works will be selected by an international jury for the printed edition. 28 September to 1 November 2026. Details and submissions through the link in bio. #no4 #opencall #theaiartmagazine
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EVERYONE IN NYC IS SINGING EMPIRE STATE OF MIND
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This week, artists Wafaa Bilal, @mollycrabapple, @FendeVilliers and @Samaritual debate labor, intent, craft and class in contemporary art. Moderated by @Nadir_Nahdi.
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This week on the Doha Debates Podcast, we ask: Do we need to rethink contemporary art? Featuring Wafaa Bilal, @mollycrabapple, @FendeVilliers and @Samaritual. Moderated by @Nadir_Nahdi. 1:57 Time to rethink contemporary art? 4:59 Contemporary art: more relevant than ever? 5:45 What is the role of the artist? 6:45 Craft, labor and AI 10:32 Wafaa Bilal's viral “Domestic Tension” experiment 21:23 Lasting vs. fleeting art 22:16 Contemporary art institutions and the new Left 25:15 "Generative AI is an extraction engine. It is a vampire." 27:16 AI: a problem or just misunderstood? 29:22 Who has the right to define what is or isn’t art? 42:07 Postmodernism, craft and aesthetics 45:43 Is inaccessible art a revolutionary act? 51:09 Bad art: Is capitalism to blame? 1:01:11 Artist’s ego, craft and authorship 1:45:37 Success, tech & cultural preservation 2:03:11 “The ability to create art is divine.” 2:12:34 Experts share their favorite works of art
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The impact of AI feels inescapable. Will it usher in more possibilities or problems for artists? Hear what acclaimed artists @mollycrabapple and @Samaritual have to say.
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YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE: Legendary New Orleans clarinetist Doreen Ketchens serenades her grandson with a beautiful jazz tune 🥹❤️
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If an author or a public figure is too scared or too dependent to afford to speak out on Gaza & Palestine, their entire body of work is suspicious and, practically, useless. For they are most certainly subservient to dominant establishments in other things as well.
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Spring Awakening: Dance of the Snake' – a short film in celebration of the New Year, led by renowned Chinese dancer Xie Xin. The piece features traditional Chinese crafts such as shadow puppetry and the ancient art of Weirfang kite-making. #LOEWE
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It is impossible to spend any period of time in Lebanon without falling in love with the place - the beautiful countryside, incredible heritage sites, culture, food, wine and all the diverse communities. Even I, a rubbish photgrapher with a cheap phone, can't help show beauty.
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Good morning New York City
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Thomas Sowell 🔥 🔥
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In FooledbyRandomness, I stressed that to understand the world you need to nurture the skill in separating the anecdotal from the statistical, the noise from the signal, & the salient from the representative. I am now adding the difference between information and propaganda.
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In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline. As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone. For example: 1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value. 2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger. 3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die". 4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying? 5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression. 6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc. 7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all. It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.
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Those who colonized the whole world are trying to convince us that resistance to colonialism is terrorism.
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Apparently, Beirut is just exploding on its own.
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For many journalists, Arab life is worthless. For many investors, Arab death is worth a lot.  On October 6, 2023 the value of a Lockheed Martin share was $402. Today, they're worth $603.
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