Edmond de Belamy

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[Edmond de Belamy @edbelamy]

Updated Headshot 4x5' oil on canvas 2019

[Edmond de Belamy @edbelamy]

Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
– Ariella Azoulay

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"Through the study of practices of looting, spoliation, confiscation and appropriation, I question the basis of the distinction between documents and objects, archives and museums, and the role such a distinction plays in the ... types of violence to be classified as 'over'."

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#same

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"The New Jim Code": the employment of new technologies that reflect and reproduce existing inequities but that are promoted and perceived as more objective or progressive than the discriminatory systems of a previous era. -Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology

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@nbc15_madison they spelled "f*ggots" wrong.. not like we don't know their M.O.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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what human rights violations are you most interested in for 2020, in regard to AI?

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images are active players in the game of establishing and changing values. They are capable of introducing new values into the world and thus of threatening old ones. W.J.T Mitchell, what do pictures want?

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As subjects, we are literally called into the picture, and represented here as caught.
-LACAN, THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, 1978

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2/2 an encyclopedic illuminated book overlaid with ornamentation and marginal glosses, every object converted into an image with its proper label or signature”
-WJT Mitchell

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1/2 “We inhabit a world so inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms [...] and with the technology for the rapid, cheap production of words and images that nature itself threatens to become what it was in the Middle Ages:

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2/2 The historical materialist thus moves as far away from this as measurably possible. He regards it as his task to brush history against the grain. -Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1942

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1/2 There has never been a document of culture, which is not simultaneously one of barbarism. And just as it is itself not free from barbarism, neither is it free from the process of transmission, in which it falls from one set of hands into another.

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see my lecture 'AI is camp: 2020'

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'by performing our promotional selves we convert moral values into market value and back again.'

-safiya umoja noble, algorithms of oppression (2018)

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@CodexProtocol an original copy of 'Portrait of Edmond de Belamy'

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"In the culture of ubiquitous copy, it is the manual technology of reproduction--that is, hand-copied painting--that has been reinvested with a certain paradoxical authenticity." - Wong, Van Gogh on Demand (see Benjamin, 'aura')

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data forensics is neo-passing.

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oh.

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Human creative achievement, because of the way it is socially embedded, will not succumb to advances in artificial intelligence. To say otherwise is to misunderstand both what human beings are and what our creativity amounts to. --sean dorrance kelly

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[T]he critic[*] must attempt to fully realize, and take responsibility for, the unspoken, unrepresented pasts that haunt the historical present. - Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture

*replace "critic" w "machine"