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Nettrice Gaskins
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Nov 24

Generative AI Art: 2016 to the Present

Via BoingBoing (Cory Doctorow): Wagner James Au sez, “AI algorithms, as AOC recently pointed out, often have a racial bias inherited by their creators, to the point where some can’t even ‘see’ people of color. …

Generative Ai Tools

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Generative AI Art: 2016 to the Present
Generative AI Art: 2016 to the Present
Generative Ai Tools

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Nov 18

New Blue Sun: A Meditation on Techno-Vernacular Creativity

Today (Friday), New Blue Sun, the first solo album by Andre 3000 dropped. Fans have waited for two decades for the legendary rapper and performer to release an album but what they got was Los Angeles mediation music (which I’m into). About three songs in I was reminded of the…

New Blue Sun

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New Blue Sun: A Meditation on Techno-Vernacular Creativity
New Blue Sun: A Meditation on Techno-Vernacular Creativity
New Blue Sun

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Nov 13

Midjourney’s Style-Tuning: Collage & Remixing Using Generative AI

To remix means to use a machine or computer to change or improve the different parts of an existing composition to make a new one. Remixing is one of three techno-vernacular creative modes that include reappropriation and improvisation. Collage is considered to be one of the ultimate remix practices in…

Midjourney Style Tuner

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Midjourney’s Style-Tuning: Collage & Remixing Using Generative AI
Midjourney’s Style-Tuning: Collage & Remixing Using Generative AI
Midjourney Style Tuner

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Nov 5

The Prediction: Afrofuturism 3.0 & Generative AI

In 2015 the book Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness was released and it examines the applicability of contemporary expressions of Afrofuturism, from several different points of view and disciplines of study. I wrote chapter two titled “Afrofuturism on Web 3.0”, which navigated technologies from the past, then present and…

Afrofuturism

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The Prediction: Afrofuturism 3.0 & Generative AI
The Prediction: Afrofuturism 3.0 & Generative AI
Afrofuturism

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Oct 25

Algorithmic Injustice & GenAI Art

A few days ago I was revisiting a text prompt in Midjourney that was inspired by blues musician and songwriter Robert Johnson, whose singing, guitar playing, and songwriting has influenced generations of musicians. The tool offered up four variations, including a startling image of a blue-skin, guitar-playing man-ape. …

Algorithmic Injustice

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Algorithmic Injustice & GenAI Art
Algorithmic Injustice & GenAI Art
Algorithmic Injustice

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Oct 16

STEM Week: Hip Hop’ademics

Massachusetts STEM Week 2023 is Monday, October 16 through Friday, October 20th. This past weekend we had the first of two Hip Hop’ademics workshops for educators. We’re offering the second one this coming Saturday. …

Stem Week

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STEM Week: Hip Hop’ademics
STEM Week: Hip Hop’ademics
Stem Week

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Oct 10

Generative AI & The Digital Production Divide

Three years before the term digital divide was coined, and 30 years ago this month, I saw a seed of an idea I had planted sprout and take root in South Jamaica Queens, NY. During my four years as an undergraduate computer graphics student I worked as a teaching artist…

Digital Divide

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Generative AI & The Digital Production Divide
Generative AI & The Digital Production Divide
Digital Divide

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Sep 30

My First Trip to Brazil Told Through Generative AI

To create this image (above) I made a Photoshop collage from a photo I took of a floral print on a wall at Jongo da Serrinha, plus a photo of a young Mercedes Baptista who was a legendary Brazilian ballet dancer and choreographer. I took a photo of her statute…

Generative Ai Tools

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My First Trip to Brazil Told Through Generative AI
My First Trip to Brazil Told Through Generative AI
Generative Ai Tools

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Sep 7

Afro-Improvisation & My Trip to Rio: Part 1

In a couple of weeks I will be heading to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It will be the third and last in-person gathering for my Ford Global Fellowship cohort. Brazil (and South America) has been on my ‘bucket list’ for many years, a desire that was intensified when viewing the…

Embodied Improvisation

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Afro-Improvisation & My Trip to Rio: Part 1
Afro-Improvisation & My Trip to Rio: Part 1
Embodied Improvisation

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Aug 31

Romare Bearden, Mechanical Reproduction & Generative AI

One of my recent book cover art commissions was released by the author on social media (see below) and someone commented/asked whether or not the original artists were credited since it’s “AI Art”. …

Romare Bearden

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Romare Bearden, Mechanical Reproduction & Generative AI
Romare Bearden, Mechanical Reproduction & Generative AI
Romare Bearden

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Nettrice Gaskins

Nettrice Gaskins

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Nettrice is a digital artist, academic, cultural critic and advocate of STEAM education.

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