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Nettrice Gaskins
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Live or Memorex: AI & Photographic Truth

The tag line advertising and marketing jingle “Is it live or is it Memorex?” became popular in the early 1980s by the American company Memorex. It was used to describe the “live-like” audio quality of their cassette tapes that were used in 1970s & 1980s boom boxes. The image above…

Deepfakes

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Live or Memorex: AI & Photographic Truth
Live or Memorex: AI & Photographic Truth
Deepfakes

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Mar 23

Revisionist Art & Recontextualizing Iconography Using AI

As an art student I was exposed to artworks that used popular iconography to make socio-political statements. For example, Renee Cox, whose photographs — frequently self-portraits — explores issues related to the representation and exploitation of Black bodies while seeking to create new positive imagery. …

Revisionism

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Revisionist Art & Recontextualizing Iconography Using AI
Revisionist Art & Recontextualizing Iconography Using AI
Revisionism

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Mar 14

PI DayArt & AI

Pi is mathematical. Every March 14th people celebrate Pi Day—an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π — by eating pies and posting images of circles on Instagram: 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant figures of π. Pi speaks to a world without bounds because its digits…

Pi Day

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PI DayArt & AI
PI DayArt & AI
Pi Day

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Mar 4

Specular Reflection: The Rosie Series

Color vs. light. Many of the past images I generated using AI are studies of color theory, which deals with color mixing and the visual effects of specific color combinations (ex. split complimentary colors). Lately, color has become a secondary element or last step in the process. Light, especially specularity…

Specularity

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Specular Reflection: The Rosie Series
Specular Reflection: The Rosie Series
Specularity

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Feb 2

ChatGPT Defines Techno-Vernacular Creativity & Innovation

ChatGPT — an OpenAI chatbot — generates text based on the input it is given… and it’s all the rage in scholarly circles. …

Chatgpt

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ChatGPT Defines Techno-Vernacular Creativity & Innovation
ChatGPT Defines Techno-Vernacular Creativity & Innovation
Chatgpt

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Jan 24

Revisiting ‘Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand’

In Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand, Malcolm McCullough writes, In the case of craft, interpretations focus specifically on the way in which content takes form. With art, however, the relation of form and content varies constantly. Computing transforms this relation too: the same content (bits) may take many different…

Craft

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Revisiting ‘Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand’
Revisiting ‘Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand’
Craft

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Jan 10

Compositing AI Tools: A Primer

The text prompt I started with was an art term: sfumato. Sfumato comes from the Italian language and is derived from fumo (“smoke”, “fume”). I was thinking about its use in famous paintings such as da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.” The painting gives an elusive and illusionistic rendering of the human…

Midjourney

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Compositing AI Tools: A Primer
Compositing AI Tools: A Primer
Midjourney

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Jan 2

The Aura of AI-Generated Art

In his 2004 essay “Why are Artists Poor?”, Hans Abbing writes, Walter Benjamin predicted that the technical reproduction of art would lead to a breaking of art’s spell (‘Entzauberung’). Art became less obscure, more accessible and thus less magical because of technical reproduction. … Benjamin’s prediction is not difficult to…

Aura

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The Aura of AI-Generated Art
The Aura of AI-Generated Art
Aura

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Dec 26, 2022

Afrofuturism 3.0 Revisited: 2015 to the Present

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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Afrofuturism 3.0 Revisited: 2015 to the Present
Afrofuturism 3.0 Revisited: 2015 to the Present
Afrofuturism

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Dec 16, 2022

AI & Techno-Vernacular Creativity

In 2021, the MIT Press published my first full length book, Techno-Vernacular Creativity & Innovation. Artificial intelligence or AI is briefly mentioned through artists such as Stephanie Dinkins. Dinkins created a training model for an AI agent based on living oral histories and literature including Toni Morison’s Sula (1973) and…

Reappropriation

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AI & Techno-Vernacular Creativity
AI & Techno-Vernacular Creativity
Reappropriation

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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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