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Watching something that didn’t reek of the algorithm or AI generation, or covert Casamigos sponsorship, made me realize how passively I’d been absorbing my entertainment over the past few years and how fucked my brain may be because of it. I’d become so creatively lazy I’d entered into an existential free fall.
Why Have Clowns Taken Over LA? by Allison P. Davis in Vulture
I always felt it was always true. A lot of my feelings about being online have come from this deep discomfort with posting, but also not being able to explain why, despite that discomfort, I do it all the time, and I’ve done it for over a decade very regularly. I think this feeling, the emotion that I would feel going into a place like Forever 21, I felt the same when opening Tumblr or Instagram or YouTube, or whatever. Being surrounded by this potential of who I could become if I shopped the right way made me feel very powerful. Going into Forever 21, I’m thinking about everything I’ve consumed online. I’m thinking about images on the Internet and how I can become them via the clothes in front of me in the store. So, for me, there was no point at which I was able to conceptualize an idea of myself that wasn’t in relation to being online.
Cory Arcangel + Maya Man in Cura Magazine
That I would say about 99% of the white critics are so damn racist and so ignorant that it really is not even worth discussing what they say.
So it would be like dignifying some trash to deal with some statement like that from those stupid white critics.
The 24 Hour a Day Life of Benny Andrews, 1974 by The Met on YouTube
Why is it that the most vocal cheerleaders of generative A.I. are always the hackiest motherfreakers around?
Don't Use A.I. to Do This by Colson Whitehead in The New York Times
The historic avant-garde emphasized the puckish role of the artist concerning polite society: to improve humanity’s general lot through scandal and provocation.
The institution won’t save you.
On Art After Risk by Travis Diehl in Spike Art Magazine
While Arabfuturism cannot be pinned down to a concrete definition – intentionally so – vague science-fiction aesthetic descriptions are associated with it as well as a vehement rejection of our quotidian, everyday understanding of temporality.
Arabfuturism: Science-Fiction & Alternate Realities in the Arab World by Perwana Nazif in The Quietus
I always have the feeling I need to store things so that I never forget them. I might record it in a book with a Post-it note, but I might not revisit that book for 10 years. Then I pull it off the shelf and I think, “Oh god, I remember that. That’s why I put the Post-it note there,” and then I’ll use it. So I have mental storage in my head at all times.
Meet Angela Hill, the Photographer Behind the World's Coolest Bookshop by Leila Eden Sheridan in Interview