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Yes, it was a fart joke: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap.” Don’t feel bad if you don’t get it — something was definitely lost in time and translation (you have to imagine it was the Mesopotamian equivalent of “Women be shopping”), but not before the joke helped pave the way for almost 4,000 years of toilet humor. It’s just a shame we’ll never know the name of the Sumerian genius to whom we owe Blazing Saddles. Controversy erupts over Peter Nabokov's publication of "The Origin Myth of Acoma Pueblo" - Viajes Pintorescos - Santa Fe New Mexican.
In an article published at the end of 2015 in Hyperallergic, a popular online arts magazine, on the 20 most powerless people in the art world, the editors listed Native Americans as No. 7, between Performing Artists (No. 6) and Cheryl LaPorte, the Virginia teacher who asked her students to copy the Islamic statement of faith as part of a lesson on calligraphy (No. 8).
It mentioned the glacial progress in decolonizing museums and claiming sacred materials from auction houses, and called attention to the near absence of Native artists in the inaugural exhibition of the new Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The Hyperallergic editors concluded by saying that some Native groups have settled for digital repatriation, referring to the new online version of the Codex Mendoza created by Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, in collaboration with the Bodleian Library and King’s College, both at Oxford University.
Need an account? Create one now. Gov. On Manovich. Prolegomena to Any Future Poetics of the Cat Video. Henri le Chat Noir (screenshot via YouTube) “As an extra, a surplus, a hiatus even, form is conceived by the cat video as a pause in the work of signification, which also alters the nature of signification. … The cat video suggests that form stops us in our tracks of thinking, and inserts itself in that moment of stillness.
To attend to form is thus to admit some other kind of mental attention.” [1] “Le chat pour le chat, sans but, car tout but dénature le chat.” [2] “The importance of not being in earnest is precisely what makes the play of the cat video important.” [3] “It is not the cat video’s place to ask you to learn. … Any cat who wants your particular admiration is, by just so much, the less cat.” [4] Future A.I. Will Be Able to Generate Photos We Need Out of Nothing. What will we do with all the data we accumulate from photos?
On a daily basis, Internet juggernauts like Google, Yahoo, Facebook or Microsoft use highly sophisticated deep learning engines to better understand the content of billions of images uploaded, liked and shared. For now, it is to better serve advertising, but what else can be done? For one, we could generate custom-made photos. Automated photo generating A.I. using all the knowledge acquired about photography — including which image types helps sell more products, which dominant colors appeal to viewers, and which composition is the most effective — would build a perfect photo according to your needs. Google Image search, instead of returning photos it indexed from millions of sites, could take a query and based on what it knows about good photography and you, build an entire new photo from scratch that would perfectly match your request.
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Michael Kamber, on the other hand, is expecting some blowback for his latest show, “Altered Images: 150 Years of Posed and Manipulated Documentary Photography,” which opens this weekend at the Bronx Documentary Center. And he’s perfectly O.K. with that. “I think there will be some unhappy people,” said Mr. The Age Of Disinformation. The Age Of Disinformation I have been a professional meteorologist for 36 years.
Since my debut on television in 1979, I have been an eyewitness to the many changes in technology, society, and how we communicate. Epistemology for Dummies. EPISTEMOLOGY for DUMMIES Epistemology doesn't help us know much more than we would have known if we had never heard of it.
But it does force us to admit that we don't know some of the things we thought we knew. The Philosophy of Color Perception. Errol Morris: How Typography Shapes Our Perception Of Truth. In 2013, acclaimed filmmaker and author Errol Morris ran a bold experiment. With the collusion of the New York Times, he asked 45,000 readers to take an online test. The test allegedly measured whether or not readers were optimists or pessimists.