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Read More: #34: place matters; re/flecting the border“Last Sunday, just a few meters from Ana Teresa Fernández’s intervention [Erasing the Border (Borrando la Frontera)], Marcos Ramírez, better known as ERRE, staged a performative work titled Re/flecting the…
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Read More: #33: speed matters; there is safety in the slowToday’s internet seeks, supports, and succeeds via virality. The pursuit of virality for media content on the web is understood as a truism and a good, as self-evidently powerful, as…
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Read More: #32, take responsibility for our own acts of lookingLast summer, in “How Do I (Not) Look, Live Feed Video and Viral Black Death,” I wrote: We come to this cultural, political and media onslaught as individuals but, it…
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Read More: #31: look deeper into the migrant experienceAccording to a press release from The New School/Parsons, their show State of Exception/Estado de Excepción “presents traces of the human experience—objects left behind in the desert by undocumented migrants…
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Read More: #30, every single tweak in an algorithm can make a changeThe winner of HackPrinceton 2016 is FiB: “Let’s stop living a lie.” FiB says: “In the current media landscape, control over distribution has become almost as important as the actual…
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Read More: #29: interrupt the narrativeIn “10 WAYS TO BE A FEMINIST MEDIA ACTIVIST” Feminist Frequency recommends: “While it can be some of the most challenging work, interrupting the status quo and talking to friends…
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Read More: #28: face(book?) is best for people with pale skinIn “Smart.Dumb AI-Powered ‘Fake News’ Search Suggestions,” Jonathan Albright follows the search crumbs to some pretty powerful hardtruths. This wonderful resource was suggested to me by Lisa Hirschfield, as were…
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Read More: #27: new image holding environments neededIn my review in the Brooklyn Rail of the ICP show Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change, I write: As access has exponentially grown to visualization and distribution technologies,…
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Read More: #26: algorithmic literacy, transparency and oversight neededAccording to the Pew Research Center, in “Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age“: “While many of the 2016 U.S. presidential election post-mortems noted the revolutionary impact of web-based…
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Read More: #25: evidence of the opaque and intricate apparatus of our reality needed“Evidentiary Realism focuses on artworks that prioritize formal aspects of visual language and mediums; diverging from journalism and reportage, they strive to provoke visual pleasure and emotional responses. In particular,…