MachineMachine /stream - tagged with interview https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just ‘Onboarding Tools’ for Tech Conglomerates]]> https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692

It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:53:18 -0700 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692
<![CDATA[Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just ‘Onboarding Tools’ for Tech Conglomerates]]> https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692

It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:53:18 -0700 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692
<![CDATA[Geraldine Juárez on NFTs & Ghosts]]> https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/geraldine-juarez-on-nfts-ghosts/

I remember reading about Geraldine Juárez’s 2014 bitcoin-burning experiment at the time and getting immensely impressed by its boldness. Back then, crypto seemed like a fringe phenomenon – worthy of radical artistic interventions but not earnest policy debate – so I didn’t make much of it.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:40 -0800 https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/geraldine-juarez-on-nfts-ghosts/
<![CDATA[Meet the Guy Who Went Viral for Explaining How NFTs Are a Bullshit 'Poverty Trap']]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7v5qq/meet-the-guy-who-went-viral-on-youtube-for-explaining-how-nfts-crypto-are-a-poverty-trap

Dan Olson’s YouTube documentary “Line Goes Up” is like “The Big Short,” except crypto is the housing crisis. Until a few weeks ago, Dan Olson had a pretty comfortable—if niche—thing going on YouTube.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:19 -0800 https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7v5qq/meet-the-guy-who-went-viral-on-youtube-for-explaining-how-nfts-crypto-are-a-poverty-trap
<![CDATA[Linda Hamilton Fled Hollywood, but ‘Terminator’ Still Found Her - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/movies/linda-hamilton-terminator.html

NEW ORLEANS — Linda Hamilton laughs the way Courtney Love sings, with great raspy bravado. It would be an intimidating laugh if it didn’t come easily, and if it weren’t so often offered at her own expense.

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Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:35:23 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/movies/linda-hamilton-terminator.html
<![CDATA[Daniel Dennett interview]]> https://huffduffer.com/therourke/545241

Daniel Dennett talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the evolution of the human brain.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kv3y4

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Thu, 15 Aug 2019 04:35:08 -0700 https://huffduffer.com/therourke/545241
<![CDATA[Mark Fisher, on RWM podcast, 2012]]> https://huffduffer.com/therourke/532946

Mark Fisher is a writer, teacher and theorist living in Suffolk, England. His k-punk blog has been a well respected resource for cultural analysis on the web since its launch in 2003. In 2009, he published his first book, 'Capitalist Realism', where he explores the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it. In it, Fisher analyses the role of the media, the education system, the link between Neoliberalism and brain chemistry, and what he calls business ontology 'in a world in which internment camps and franchise coffee bars co-exist.'

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Thu, 02 May 2019 09:45:00 -0700 https://huffduffer.com/therourke/532946
<![CDATA[‘It’s Time to Decolonize Environmentalism’: An Interview with Zina Saro-Wiwa | Frieze]]> https://frieze.com/article/its-time-decolonize-environmentalism-interview-zina-saro-wiwa

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Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:50:52 -0700 https://frieze.com/article/its-time-decolonize-environmentalism-interview-zina-saro-wiwa
<![CDATA[Glitch Feminism: An Interview With Legacy Russell]]> http://www.berfrois.com/2018/02/glitch-feminism-an-interview-with-legacy-russell/

Legacy Russell is a writer, artist and cultural producer. Her first book Glitch Feminism is forthcoming from Verso. A version of this interview first appeared in the chapter “Distracted to Attention: On Digital Reading” in The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online (OR Books, 2017).

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Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:03:11 -0700 http://www.berfrois.com/2018/02/glitch-feminism-an-interview-with-legacy-russell/
<![CDATA[Embracing plastic and the apocalypse: An interview with Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke]]> http://additivism.org/post/165545612559

Embracing plastic and the apocalypse: An interview with Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke

additivism is the bastard of these two visions. It conjures nightmares of toxic machines churning out guns, drugs, counterfeit cash and meaningless trash ad libitum. It also take its cue from additive manufacturing technology itself and suggests that small scale, cumulative actions have the potential to bring about bigger, more complex realities.

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Wed, 20 Sep 2017 06:26:23 -0700 http://additivism.org/post/165545612559
<![CDATA[On Climate / Borders / Survival / Care / Struggle | base]]> http://www.basepublication.org/?p=474

In much of your writing, you talk about the relationship between mass migration and climate change. How can climate change be more consciously linked to existing opposition to borders and everyday struggle against the border regime?

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Tue, 29 Aug 2017 04:49:28 -0700 http://www.basepublication.org/?p=474
<![CDATA[Radicalism Begins in the Body | Boston Review]]> http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/junot-díaz-samuel-r-delany-radicalism-begins-body

Junot Díaz interviews science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany about what it means to be an aging sex radical and why he wrote the essay “Ash Wednesday.” Junot Díaz: Chip, “Ash Wednesday” is a wonderful essay.

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Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:01:53 -0700 http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/junot-díaz-samuel-r-delany-radicalism-begins-body
<![CDATA[Moreshin Allahyari: She Who Sees the Unknown, Ya’jooj Majooj]]> http://additivism.org/post/160888702891

Moreshin Allahyari: She Who Sees the Unknown, Ya’jooj Majooj An interview with the artist Moreshin Allahyari about her commission for The Photographers’ Gallery’s Media Wall - See Who Sees the Unknown, Ya'jooj Ma'jooj. Artwork © the artist, Video © The Photographers’ Gallery, 2017

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Sat, 20 May 2017 16:14:49 -0700 http://additivism.org/post/160888702891
<![CDATA[Morehshin Allahyari: She Who Sees the Unknown, Ya'jooj Majooj]]> https://vimeo.com/218147411

An interview with the artist Moreshin Allahyari about her commission for The Photographers' Gallery's Media Wall - See Who Sees the Unknown, Ya'jooj Ma'jooj. Artwork © the artist, Video © The Photographers' Gallery, 2017Cast: The Photographers' GalleryTags: Moreshin Allahyari, Ya'jooj Ma'jooj and The Photographers' Gallery

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Sat, 20 May 2017 16:11:39 -0700 https://vimeo.com/218147411
<![CDATA[The New Radical, Cody Wilson, and the future of 3D-printed guns - The Verge]]> http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/25/14380730/the-new-radical-cody-wilson-tech-anarchy-documentary-sundance-2017

The mood in the room after an early Sundance screening of Adam Bhala Lough’s The New Radical was polite, but a little icy.

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Sat, 28 Jan 2017 04:33:45 -0800 http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/25/14380730/the-new-radical-cody-wilson-tech-anarchy-documentary-sundance-2017
<![CDATA[Dark Matters: Hannah Gregory interviews Morehshin...]]> http://additivism.org/post/156087561093

Dark Matters: Hannah Gregory interviews Morehshin Allahyari Morehshin Allahyari left Iran in 2007 to pursue a critical artistic practice, choosing, in her words, ‘self-exile over self-censorship’. Her work holds technology as 'a philosophical toolset’ and 3D printing as a potential 'process for repairing history and memory’, levelling equal criticisms at both the oppression of religious dictatorship and the white-privileging worldviews of the technology and art industries.Dark Matter (2012­–14) was her first experiment with additive tech as political medium, in which Allahyari turned taboos of Iranian daily life – dogs, pigs, satellite dishes, and dildos – into absurdist 3D-printed amalgams. The widely acclaimed Material Speculation: ISIS series (2015–16) pieced together the histories of artefacts destroyed by the Islamic State in the ancient cities of Hatra and Nineveh, through in-depth research and correspondence with archaeologists, historians, and museum staff.The reconstructed replicas, printed in translucent resin, were embedded with a USB drive and flash card containing this gathered imagery and information ­– an act of memory preservation testament to the persistence of the digital copy. This interview discusses the foundations of Allahyari’s practice through an introduction to her new research project, which is rooted in refiguring Middle Eastern mythologies, and begins with the exhibition and video She Who Sees the Unknown, which Allahyari recently presented at New York’s Transfer Gallery.

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Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:08:55 -0800 http://additivism.org/post/156087561093
<![CDATA[3D-Printing an Army of Forgotten Goddesses to Fight Colonialism]]> http://hyperallergic.com/346111/3d-printing-an-army-of-forgotten-goddesses-to-fight-colonialism/

When we think of powerful goddesses, the names of Athena, Artemis, Isis, or Kali may come to mind. Much less known, however, particularly to the Western world, are the names of such female figures of Middle-Eastern origin (those of ancient Egypt are a unique exception).

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Tue, 27 Dec 2016 10:09:47 -0800 http://hyperallergic.com/346111/3d-printing-an-army-of-forgotten-goddesses-to-fight-colonialism/
<![CDATA[On Material Entanglements: an Interview with Morehshin Allahyari]]> http://additivism.org/post/154581978099

On Material Entanglements: an Interview with Morehshin Allahyari Although we both live in the bay area, I got to Morehshin Allahyari’s work through an internet rabbit hole. Some months ago I picked up ‘Cyclonopedia’ by Reza Negarestani and got pretty engrossed by the book’s mix of fact and fiction. The story suggests that petrol functions as a lubricant necessary to spread an ancient evil throughout the world eventually leading into what he calls a desertification of the earth. a place where all will be flattened and ready for some sort of re-boot.

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Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:52:10 -0800 http://additivism.org/post/154581978099
<![CDATA[The Anthropocene Marks the Failure of Capitalism, Not Mars-Bound Humanity | Inverse]]> https://www.inverse.com/article/22748-molecular-red-anthropocene-climate-change-mars-colony-capitalism-climate-change

The Holocene is dead; welcome to the Anthropocene. Once a controversial stance, the notion that human activities have altered planetary geology adequately enough to warrant the demarcation of another epoch has more traction than the Mars Rover.

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Fri, 04 Nov 2016 07:07:12 -0700 https://www.inverse.com/article/22748-molecular-red-anthropocene-climate-change-mars-colony-capitalism-climate-change
<![CDATA[Laboria Cuboniks in Conversation «DIS Magazine]]> http://dismagazine.com/blog/81953/laboria-cuboniks-in-conversation/

Laboria Cuboniks is currently a group of 6 women working together online to redefine a feminism adequate to the twenty-first century. They collectively wrote Xenofeminsim: A Politics for Alienation in 2014.

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Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:14:22 -0700 http://dismagazine.com/blog/81953/laboria-cuboniks-in-conversation/