Weekend Reads:
“In the wake of the Dobb's decision last year that effectively overturned Roe v Wade in the United States, I committed to use my art as protest.” - Beth Galton [The Washington Post]
A nostalgic trip back to the 1990s club scene. [The Guardian]
AI-generated images can look a lot like authentic vintage photos. [MIT Technology Review]
“Pablo Xavier, a 31-year-old construction worker from the Chicago area who declined to share his last name over fears that he could be attacked for creating the images, said he was tripping on shrooms last week when he came up with the idea for the image.” [Buzzfeed News]
This is why AI face recognition is dangerous. [The New York Times]
“Twitter’s Blue Check Apocalypse” [The New York Times]
And so it begins…Coca-Cola is asking customers to create AI-generated art for a chance to be featured on a billboard. [Marketing Dive]
Giveaway:
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Jamel Shabazz, the legendary New York photographer, reveals unseen, early work from the 1970s-90s in Shabazz: Albums, awarded the Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize and published by Steidl. The book spans work made throughout Brooklyn, Queens, the West Village and Harlem in the 1970s as well as images created during the artist’s time as an officer at Rikers Island in the 1980s.
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