WHY BE YOU WHEN YOU CAN BE ME? Petra Collins’ Unconscious Truths
Trash Talk: On Translating Garbage
“By garbage I mean any or all of the following: corporate-speak, brand manifestos, NGO reports, think tank reports, letters from government agencies replying to American oil companies … and that vilest genre of all: the art text.”
Read the full piece on The Paris Review blog >>
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Artist Dorothea Nold gets “an average of five calls a day” from international investors interested in buying into the new Berlin property developments advertised on posters and billboards in the city’s Kreuzberg and Treptow areas. What these would-be financiers don’t know is that the placards – which feature company names such as Desperate Development and absurd architectural renderings – are part of an art project-cum-awareness campaign satirizing the engorged real estate market in the German capital. “I have nothing against development,” says Nold, “but how and for whom people are building in Berlin at the moment really upsets me.” 🏗🏗
READ MORE (in German) at our local daily, the B.Z. ➡️➡️
MUTANT TOMATOES FROM THE RECENT FUTURE: Pierre-Louis Auvray’s Console Couture
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WONG PING: HEART DAGGER opens at the Camden Arts Centre in London tomorrow. Earlier this year, Ping told 032c:
“If you think about fisting in a cartoon versus fisting in a real life movie, these are different things.”
READ THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE ✊✊
LIFE CAN BE A FAMILY BUSINESS: No Show Official @ Paris Fashion Week
The Future of Couture: Neo-digital natives, blockchain luxury, and algorithmic customization
👼 GOOD SHEPHERDS: IS AI OUR NEW GOD? 👼
“AI minds differ radically from those evolved by nature. When the algorithms are taught to play video games, they invent ways to cheat that don’t occur to humans: exploiting bugs in the code that allow them to rack up points, for example, or goading their opponents into committing suicide. When Facebook taught two networks to communicate without specifying that the conversation be in English, the algorithms made up their own language.”
READ MEGHAN O’GIEBLYN’S PIECE ON DEEP LEARNING AND RELIGION IN BELIEVER MAG HERE 🙏
READ KODE9 ON AI AND THE GOLEM HERE 🤖
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez meets Greta Thunberg in The Guardian: “Hope is contagious” 🌎🌎
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“It’s not super colorful – kind of like the sneaker equivalent of the Mercedes G-Wagon.”
– 032c Founder and Editor in Chief Joerg Koch discusses the adidas by 032c GSG 9 with contributor Calum Gordon in the new 032c Issue #36 (Summer 2019). Read the full history while you wait for your hard copy.
The adidas by 032c GSG9 is available in very limited distribution. Order yours today.
PHOTO DIARY: Marc Goehring Plays Hide & Seek in the Lavender Fields at JACQUEMUS’ 10 Year Anniversary
THERE IS NO IRONY HERE: Artist David Kramer on humor, Hedi Slimane, and adapting his work for CELINE
