Juergen Berkessel

Artist, technologist, founder of Polymash and "The Intersect of Art and Tech" newsletter, for artists and businesses. #podcasting #strategist #AI

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The BBC's 1990 prediction of future cameras got almost everything wrong. But the interesting part isn't what they missed - it's what they got right by accident, and what that says about how we imagine technology. https://t.co/5vOwz9Yr1q

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Herb Ascherman's platinum prints take days to make per image. The surprising part: he says the slowness isn't a sacrifice. It's the reason the work means anything to him at all. "The Eye of Cleveland" is worth your time. https://t.co/GZhqEvFGKc

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WorthWait forces a 24-hour wait before you see your photos. But the wait was never what made film feel different. It was the cost per frame. Scarcity changed how you aimed. A timer doesn't replicate that. https://t.co/CfhGZSgmxU

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A video of cilia waving inside a child's airway won first place in Nikon's Small World in Motion contest. Then people started asking if it was AI-generated. The cilia were too beautiful to be true. That's where we are now. https://t.co/DVj3VqMKTU #AIEthics

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The counterintuitive thing about colorizing Ansel Adams isn't that it disrespects him. It's that it makes his actual choices invisible. You stop seeing what he decided to leave out. That's the real loss. https://t.co/1elf0YN6xa

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Lensbaby's Omni Color II and Omni Crystal II are physical filters you hold in front of a lens by hand. No algorithm. No preset. Just glass and light and whatever your arm does. The results are unrepeatable, which is the whole point. https://t.co/ADf2IY6Zfh

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A 1990 BBC segment predicted the cameras of the future. They got some things right. Mostly they got it fascinatingly wrong. Worth watching just to see what confident prediction looks like in hindsight. https://t.co/5vOwz9Yr1q

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Herb Ascherman shoots platinum prints with a 15-pound camera. There's a documentary about him making festival rounds. Some photographers just refuse to make it easy on themselves, and the work shows it. https://t.co/GZhqEvFGKc

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There's an iPhone app that makes you wait 24 hours to see your photos. The idea is that delay teaches patience. I think it teaches the wrong lesson entirely. https://t.co/CfhGZSgmxU

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When cameras can do everything automatically, what's still worth doing by hand? New issue of The Intersect sits with that question - and it gets uncomfortable fast. https://t.co/hMdmp3wMB4 #Photography

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Court sketch artists have always distorted faces a little. That's the job. But once AI tools enter the process, "a little" stops being a stable concept. Two faces, one sketch, zero consensus on what counts as real. https://t.co/QZ70833ZsX #AIEthics

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Someone colorized Ansel Adams photographs. I have opinions about this. Strong ones. The kind that make you want to sit down and write 800 words at 11pm. https://t.co/1elf0YN6xa #ContemporaryArt

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A Reddit user walked into Olalekan Jeyifous's solo debut at the Walker Art Center and posted an "AI slop alert." The work draws from African diasporic cosmologies. The accusation says more about the accuser than the art. https://t.co/woopsE54CD #AIEthics #ContemporaryArt

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My first reaction to a wild video was "that has to be AI." I still don't know if it was. That reflex is the whole problem. New issue of The Intersect is out: https://t.co/CYYhsmN6OW #AIandArt #ArtAndTechnology

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Xiaomi’s foldable phone might let users swap camera modules magnetically. As an Apple fan, I find it interesting but remain skeptical. Could this solve foldables’ usual camera compromises? https://t.co/YbZhNNpK0Z

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AI thrives in gallery offices but not on walls. 57% use it for admin; only 9% see AI art as real art. My take: AI works better as a tool than a creator. https://t.co/Tw66GS2xA9

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Refik Anadol’s AI art goes beyond prompt-based images, using museum data as pigment. Visitors stayed 38 mins at MoMA. What does this reveal about AI and creativity? https://t.co/Umec0sXtBo

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Flip phones & Game Boys, but crocheted giant-sized? Nicole Nikolich recreates early 2000s tech in yarn, turning nostalgia into playful, soft art. See the full story: https://t.co/0e8L2pc0EL

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Berlinale’s funding from government & corporate sources challenges true political independence. Artists say silence equals complicity. Read more at The Intersect: https://t.co/X3Bb3qp1Cd

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If every image looks real, what’s left of truth? Meaning must lead, not follow. That’s how art stays real—even with AI. https://t.co/w7sKX8cjRD