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PRADA SPRING/SUMMER 2020: Optimism, Style, and (the) Industry
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BRIGITTE LACOMBE BACKSTAGE @ PRADA MEN’S SPRING/SUMMER 2020
“How did ‘ceramicist with a private income’ become a cipher for glamour?,” asks Jess Cartner-Morley in “How ‘art world insider’ became the look of the decade”
@ THE GUARDIAN. 👩🎨👩🎨👩🎨
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“We want to shed light on what happens when technical systems are trained on problematic training data. AI classifications of people are rarely made visible to the people being classified. ImageNet Roulette provides a glimpse into that process – and to show the ways things can go wrong.”
– TREVOR PAGLEN on ImageNet Roulette. 🤖
Currently on view as part of the “Training Humans” exhibition at the Fondazione Prada in Milan, the project is “a provocation designed to help us see into the ways that humans are classified in machine learning systems.”
TRY IMAGENET ROULETTE FOR YOURSELF NOW.
WHO MODERATES THE MODERATORS? Working as a Facebook filter leaves you addicted to extreme material, and pushes you to the Far Right. READ MORE IN THE GUARDIAN.
And in the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, Christian Lorenzen on how the Internet of the 90s shaped Edward Snowden: “Connections were slow, internet users pseudonymous, and the rooms where they chatted self-regulating and unmonitored. It was a zone of freedom and forgiveness where identities could be picked up and discarded without consequence.”
PRODUCT REVIEW: The Engineered Garments x HOKA ONE ONE Bondi B
AS YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THIS MORNING, DEMNA GVASALIA IS LEAVING VETEMENTS.
WE SPOKE TO GVASALIA BACK IN 2016.
HE HAD JUST BEEN APPOINTED ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF BALENCIAGA, A ROLE HE FULFILLED WHILE ALSO LEADING VETEMENTS, A LABEL HE DESCRIBED AS A COLLECTIVE, “A SMALL UNITED NATIONS” WITH “STRONG BELIEFS ABOUT THE INDUSTRY.”
READ MORE FROM GVASALIA ON VETEMENTS, BALENCIAGA, AND THE SYSTEM HERE.
Archive Editions, Inspired by the Bauhaus
BAUHAUS 100: Eulogy for a Perversion
🌏 032c in Circulation 🌎
The theme of this year’s Vienna Gallery Festival is CIRCULATION. At CRONE VIENNA, 032c Editor-in-Chief Joerg Koch curates THE BIG FLAT NOW, an exhibition featuring Sterling Ruby, Thomas Lohr, Jonathan Castro, Rosemarie Trockel, Eli Russell Linnetz, and Mike Meiré.
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NEW YORK, NY (Sept. 2019): 032c Issue #36 cover heroine IRINA SHAYK stepped out in the Buffalo by 032c Over The Knee Boot.
“I am optimistic about the futures of some of the very youngest designers precisely because they are palpably pessimistic about the future at large.”
TROY PATTERSON on New York Fashion Week, covering “clothes designed for Doomsday, with survivalist vibes and Mad Max leisurewear,” Thom Browne’s Hitchcockian “uniforms for a conformist dystopia,” and a 71-person vocal ensemble called the Pyer Moss Tabernacle Drip Choir Drenched in the Blood.
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