Brady Ciel Marks @furiousgreencloud@liveplatform.ca
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Brady is a #ComputationalArtist, who is concerned with our technological entanglement, and creates media configurations that express a middle way between technological fetishism and dystopian fantasies.
Joined Jul 2021
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The goal of consumer tech development used to be pretty simple: design and build something of value to people, giving them a reason to buy it. A new refrigerator is shiny, cuts down on my energy bills, makes cool-looking ice cubes. So I buy it. Done. A Roomba promises to vacuum the cat hair from under my sofa while I take a nap. Sold!
But this vision of tech is increasingly outdated. It’s not enough for a refrigerator to keep food cold; today’s version offers cameras and sensors that can monitor how and what I’m eating, while the Roomba can now send a map of my house to Amazon.
The issue here goes far beyond the obvious privacy risks. It’s a sea change in the entire model for innovation and the incentives that drive it. Why settle for a single profit-taking transaction for the company when you can instead design a product that will extract a monetizable data stream from every buyer, returning revenue to the company for years? Once you’ve captured that data stream, you’ll protect it, even to the disadvantage of your customer. After all, if you buy up enough of the market, you can well afford to endure your customers’ anger and frustration. Just ask Mark Zuckerberg.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/21/1061260/innovation-technology-what-happened/
= Opening October 21st =
= 6PM - 9PM=
gallery gachet. / 9 W Hastings St
=== In Contempt ===
=== kohpâtêyimêw ===
Runs, October 22nd to November 25th
== Aiyana Wood ==
NISICHAWAYASIHK
CREE NATION
Aiyana Joe Wood’s exhibition visualizes the nuances of her identity as an Indigenous trans femme woman and sheds light on her childhood spent in institutions that were established to subvert her autonomy and humanity.
https://www.gachetfromaway.org/currentandupcoming/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-zzeay
#theStage
Trigger Warning: see link above
Join us for the public launch of the artists’ book
== Wetland Project: Sound, Ecology and Post-Geographical Art ===
Saturday, October 29, 2022, 1 to 3 pm, Griffin Art Projects, 1174 Welch Street, North Vancouver, BC
Brady Marks and Mark Timmings continue their creative investigation of the ṮEḴTEḴSEN marsh soundscape with a new artists’ book.
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Join the Black Arts Centre at the Gallery for an afternoon of evocative performance and film.
The program features works by exhibiting artist Ogheneofegor Obuwoma alongside a performance by Chipo Chipaziwa. Obuwoma's and Chipaziwa's works highlight themes of Black identity, spirituality, and female agency. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the Black Arts Centre curator Olumoroti (Moroti) Soji-George and the two artists.
https://www.surrey.ca/news-events/events/film-screening-and-art-performance
HOW AMAZON, GOOGLE, AND FACEBOOK HELPED FUND THE CAMPAIGN TO OVERTURN ROE
Excerpted:
[The Tech Gorillias] have long funneled money to right-wing groups like the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF)
True North founder Lisa Graves characterized the IWF’s efforts as an attempt to launder conservative ideology. [Snip] “in essence providing a woman’s face for the right wing’s critique or attack on progressives and its advance of this extreme and regressive, repressive agenda.”
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/01/roe-amazon-google-facebook-independent-womens-forum/
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When we ask why there aren't more women in computing. Perhaps this article about chess from 2021, might shed some clues. In short, many factors. But the grand masters tend to start from an early age. Are encouraged. It's much the same in our field.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/29/womens-chess-sexism-misogyny
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Join us Monday, September 19th from 11:30am to 12:30pm in the Aboriginal Gathering Place, Emily Carr for an artist talk with LIVE alumni Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ. Cheyenne is having a busy week with shows and the grunt gallery (https://grunt.ca/exhibitions/mullyanne-nimito/) and western front (https://westernfront.ca/events/maskisin-and-rinse)
@neauoire how long are you on Galliano?
@neauoire nice Jen is the best, I'm not heading on island this weekend :( miss ya face
Sorry to bother u, @neauoire, but I'm looking for a link to the tetris like game, with the frog sprite that shoots a tongue out, it's not here:
Was re-reading, the _Story of Mel_ the Real Programmer (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html) and saw the line —
“If a program can't rewrite its own code”,
he (mel) asked, “what good is it?”
And was reminded of the optization critique of _uxn_. @neauoire can you share a reference to that argument against code that can do self-alteration and the technical description a friend of yours gave?
@ritualdust damb u so cool.
@t36s @fullstackthaumaturge@fosstodon.org Mathew is being funny, Bill Gates quote.
@bitartbot oooh score like 🎶
- wetland project
- http://wetlandproject.com
- pronouns
- ) she/her (
Admin
Brady is a #ComputationalArtist, who is concerned with our technological entanglement, and creates media configurations that express a middle way between technological fetishism and dystopian fantasies.
Joined Jul 2021
