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For additional reading, you may be interested in this newsletter.
- 26 Nov 2024: Seeing, naming, knowing
I was attracted by the title of this essay. Seeing, naming, knowing imply a linear progression: from one to the next, Or: seeing + naming = knowing. My interest is epistemological: about what kinds of knowing and knowledge are produced by/with the kind of machine logic Khan describes, and how. She provides some answers. For… Read more: 26 Nov 2024: Seeing, naming, knowing - 29 Oct 2024: The Feral
Still from Camata by Pierre Huyghe, at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2024. Photo by Kevin Walker In the first session, we discussed this artistic perspective on AI. Present were a couple of us using AI in artistic practice, a couple people looking more at archives local history, and one investigating prosthetics. The local history angle is that… Read more: 29 Oct 2024: The Feral