Feeling Fuzzed Up
Amazing little detail from the Wikimedia village pump page today: Privacy issues for faces and car license plates[edit]Privacy issues concerning modern day...
A Bear Walks Into A Bar...
Cover image from Planned landscapes - Ger Dekkers (1977) Sorry For Not Writing Sooner It's amazing how time flies! Some brief, overdue updates. Left: The...
Mark Mulder - #datamase
Datamase @ Dox, Museum for Modern Art. Prague 2020. (Link)
Pixel #4: Heatwave Edition
Hello! This week we're thinking about remediation and photography as an initial phase of creative ideas instead of as their final form. It has been a busy...
Breaking Out Of Pitiful Vision
An interview with polymath Ugandan photographer and collagist R. Canon Griffin about his work and the medium that fuels it Namugundu ne Kasolo nga Kabaka...
Pixel #3: Total Searchability
Hello! This week we're thinking about the growth of cross-referentiality of images and how it intersects with surveillance, and what that might do for...
History Will Complete The Puzzle
An interview with Wai Hang Siu, the artist behind 'Clean Action Hong Kong', an artistic intervention addressing questions of representation, surveillance and...
Where Do Photos Go In The Era Of Total Searchability?
A selection of Facebook personality tests from nametests.com, a website which may have exposed the private data of 120 million Facebook users. Link When...
Pixel #2: Technicians and Craftspeople
Hello! This week we're mostly wearing Dolce y Gabbana and thinking about the future of photography. Same as every week, really. Join us as we take shelter...
Between Object and Information
From The Weight of the World, by the author If you’re working in photography in a commercial capacity, you probably spend a non-trivial amount of time...
I Don't Want To Hear About The Book Of Veles Anymore
What does the Book of Veles teach us about the dangers of AI? Less than some people keep wishing it would. A section of the original Book of Veles (from...
Pixel #1: Shallow Dive Photos
Featuring news, links and opinion from across the Pixelverse Hello! Welcome to the Dead Pixels newsletter. This week we're peering into Michael Christopher...
Hyperreal
Our Man Not In Havana
Photojournalism's deep dreams are made of this (detail from a post by @Michaelchristopherbrown) A reformed Magnum man proves that old habits die hard It's...
Getty vs Stability AI
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The Point of Buying Art in the Age of Artificial Scarcity
Today I've been thinking about Lewis Bush's thoughts on editioning. He posted the following tweet, linking to a pithy little statement which I broadly agree...