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    • Dinner with Einstein, Partying with Salvatore Ferragamo

    Salvatore Ferragamo’s star is rising further over Berlin: the Italian mega-brand has opened another store, this time on the city’s main luxury shopping strip Kurfurstendamm. For the occasion, James Ferragamo, Joerg and Maria Koch invited 032c’s friends and family to the opening on Thursday evening, and for dinner and dancing at Cafe Einstein. Click through to see what happened on the night, and visit the store at Kurfürstendamm 194.

    Peter Currie, Bobby Kolade and Kira Lili.
    Justinian Kfoury and Niki Pauls.
    Adriano Sack and Valincy Jean Patelli.
    Thom Bettridge, Lucas Gansterer, Eva Kelley, Bianca Heuser, Joerg Koch and Peter Currie.
    Lee Stuart and Catherine Baba.
    Yasmina Dexter.
    Sara Schoenfeld.
    Joerg Koch and Leonardo Papini.
    Miriam-Leah Hess and Alfons Kaiser.
    Lee Stuart
    Michela Ratti.
    Marc Goehring and Etienne Descloux.
    Natalia Escobar.
    Marc Goehring and Tjorven Vahldieck
    Joerg and Maria Koch and James Ferragamo.
    Lucas Gansterer.
    Catherine Baba and Veronika Heilbrunner.
    Lucas Gansterer.
    James Ferragamo and Jeanne Tremsal.
    Sarah and Sven Schumann and Fran Gavin.
    Jeremy Shaw and Yasmina Dexter.
    Nadia and Khaled Elsayed.
    David Rose and Honey Dijon
    Catherine Baba.
    Josef Volk, Julia Malik and Emmanuel de Bayser
    The crowd at the party.
    Kate Friend.
    Sven Schumann.
    Valerie Pomme.
    Ivana Segre and Julia Malik.
    The Salvatore Ferragamo storefront.
    Mago Dovjenko.
    Musicians at the Ferragamo store.
    Veneda Budny and Sam Jarou
    Eva Kelley and Jonas Lindstroem.
    Ahmad Larnes, Mac Folks, Jeremy Shaw and Catherine Baba.
    David Rose.

     

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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.”

  • 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.

     

  • 🌏 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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  • “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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  • 032c READY-TO-WEAR LAUNCH

    Last week in London we launched our first ready-to-wear collection at Browns East, including a BUFFALO LONDON BY 032c collaboration. Little Simz, Danny Lomas, and Sophia Hadjipanteli joined 032c apparel creative director Maria Koch, fashion director Marc Goehring, and sales director Nunguja Kisalya for pizza, drinks, and dancing. See our snaps below.More

  • On Power, Picasso, and American People: An Interview with FAITH RINGGOLD

    Half a century before the latest protests at the Whitney Museum of Art, Faith Ringgold was there, in front of the museum alongside other activists demanding equitable representation of women and black artists in the institution’s exhibitions. As a painter she was influenced, as the European modernists she studied in college were, by the masks she saw while traveling in Africa in the 1970s. But she would never wear a mask herself. More