At this point, I am well aware of the ubiquity of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in our lifes today, and that living without them would...
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Digital Archaeology & #NEWPALMYRA & more
Hello everyone, me (Ali) and Lucia had a conversation on primarily the project called #NEWPALMYRA, a website consisting of 3D models of buildings from the ancient...
Continue reading...Online commemorating – I am on the digital memorials page
Our relationship with the past is implied through the way we describe, and remember history. History is one of the things that we affiliate ourselves with....
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Cyborgs and techno-orientalism
It started with reading Edgar Allen Poe’s The Man That Was Used Up, mentioned in last week’s lecture on cyborgs. The short story tells of a general...
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In Defence of the Deep-Fried Meme
Hi! This week I have another video, this time on Hito Steyerl’s essay ‘In Defense of the Poor Image’. The video is in 540p quality not...
Continue reading...What happened to Google Glass?
Every couple of years, a “revolutionary” product just seems to appear out of nowhere. The company behind it is marketing it as “the next big thing”,...
Continue reading...Now you see me, now you don’t – the privacy of content creators.
Trigger warning: domestic violence. There are only few of us who cannot relate to any fanbases or groups supporting online creators and artists. With all the...
Continue reading...Wokeness in Disney – Disney Hears its Audience!! But still doesn’t get it…
The junk heap is where heroes are created
With modern times come modern tropes in media. The explosion of development in the area of digital technology has spawned many new themes for artists to...
Continue reading...Suffering from success: where did 3D films go?
A few years ago friends roped me into seeing Justice League at the cinema. Turns out it was a 4D cinema and every fight sequence was punctuated...
Continue reading...What is cybersquatting?
The rise of the digital has brought us lots of weird terms, and cybersquatting is one of them. It is derived from the term “squatting” which...
Continue reading...The video games you bought are not yours!
Your Steam library may contain a lot of games; but are they really yours? They probably just came from a rental! As a licensing control technology,...
Continue reading...Online curatorial project; Design and Violence
Museum exhibitions have a function of an indicator that shows the socio-political state of the period. By displaying what kind of framework they have at the...
Continue reading...The Library is Burning – but who burns with it?
To this day, many people still mourn the library of Alexandria – the source of unlimited knowledge, sadly lost to fire and time. The books we’ll...
Continue reading...“𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦” ~The Weeknd
The exhibition A group photography exhibition titled “Home: A Photographic Outlook” opened on November 10, 2022, and it will be on view there through February 6,...
Continue reading...The Digital Dark Age – Digital History, Burning like the Library of Alexandria
Welcome to Apple Land: Technological Ecosystems
I was recently listening to the FLAGRANT podcast, hosted primarily by comedians Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh. I’ve seen some clips before on my YouTube Shorts...
Continue reading...FLA(c)K Podcast episode 1: webtoon and Webtoon – part 2
Audio Transcript Disclaimer: this is our first podcast ever so beware of a lot of stopwords and awkward phrasing. To make this podcast more easily understandable and accessible,...
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