Nettrice GaskinsThe Kongo Cosmogram & Latent Space: Culturally Relevant Machine LearningOne year ago today I visited Casa do Jongo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as part of my work with the Ford Global Fellowship or FGF. There, we…Sep 26Sep 26
Nettrice GaskinsHere, Now & Then: Black Joy & Generative Artificial IntelligenceIn the fall of 2016 I spoke at Yale University for the “Aesthetic Activism” symposium that was convened by designer/architect Mark Foster…Sep 11Sep 11
Nettrice GaskinsDream Variations: Langston Hughes, Dreamtime & DeepDreamI’ve been thinking a lot about dreaming, which is defined as a series of events or images that happen in your mind when you are at rest…Sep 6Sep 6
Nettrice GaskinsThe Evolution of the Remix: Mechanical Reproduction to Machine LearningOne of the first times I heard the word “remix” spoken was in the 1988 rap song “Serious” with Steady B and featuring KRS-One who says,Sep 3Sep 3
Nettrice GaskinsA River of Stuff or How Samuel R. Delany Predicted Generative AII first met writer and critic Samuel R. Delany 10 years ago at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, for the Octavia E. Butler Celebration of Art…Aug 301Aug 301
Nettrice GaskinsVisual Storytelling 3.0: From Faith Ringgold to NeoAccra[S]he worked across a breadth of techniques — patchworking fabrics together, plotting out her designs, and painting onto the fabrics, in a…Aug 23Aug 23
Nettrice GaskinsFragmentation & Generative AI: The Algorhythmic TurnThe fragmented and re-assembled images of Romare Bearden and its closest relative — the African-American quilt — are formal, aesthetic…Aug 20Aug 20
Nettrice GaskinsGenerative Portraiture: From Francis Bacon to AIDuring one of the early dream scenes in Christopher Nolan’s Inception, a character named Mal fixates her attention to a painting hanging on…Aug 101Aug 101
Nettrice GaskinsDesigning Interactions: Urban Communication in the Age of GenAIFor many years, the importance of cognitive artifacts — artificial devices designed to serve a representational function — and their use…Jul 21Jul 21
