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Letter from the Editors: Family

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by Alison Hugill, Dagmara Genda // Jan. 6, 2023
Kinship beyond bloodlines—or the recently popularized concept of “chosen family”—is, for many, a mode of survival that provides escape from the suffocations and all too often latent…[read on]

The “Unhomely” Reality of AI

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by William Kherbek // Dec. 20, 2022
In the flood of writing and pondering about the advance of artificial intelligence-enabled art, the word “uncanny” keeps popping up. Writers and artists frequently describe the warped…[read on]

Artificial Intelligence as a New Demiurge?

A small robot made from a book on the Mona Lisa with six robotic legs attached
by Lucia Longhi // Nov. 25, 2022
In his current show at Galerie Mazzoli Berlin, titled ‘符号的智能 (The Intelligence of Signs),’ Donato Piccolo speculates on the potential of AI to infuse autonomy and even authorship into…[read on]

AI and Art(ificial) Criticism

by Claire Tolan // Nov. 18, 2022
…the project is not merely archival: the second volume of ‘Entropia’ was authored in collaboration with GPT-2, an OpenAI-created language model (aka text-generating “artificial…[read on]