During the last decades, and especially the last couple of years, debates about the restitution of cultural heritage have gained more and more public interest, forcing...
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AI – what can and what can it not do?
As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, one area that has seen significant growth is the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) art. While some...
Continue reading...Can AI help us understand the way that animals communicate?
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...
Continue reading...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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Single Pea in a Pod — Solo Podcast
Hello and welcome to my solo podcast! Today I am going to share my thoughts and frustrations…. especially when it comes to online conference platforms and...
Continue reading...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...Google One + Google Opinion Rewards, a free subscription?
Since June this year I decided to take a Google One subscription to increase the amount of storage space on my Google Drive. It had almost...
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...You’re 15 Minutes Too Late
Nowadays, social media platforms are over-saturated with bloggers, making it harder for niche creators (or be it casual users) to climb this ephemeral social ladder. However,...
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...
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