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    • PHARRELL WILLIAMS

    Think where man’s glory most begins and ends…

    We are friends. Like family. Pharrell calls me Sis. I call him Lil Bro. We know each other’s friends and family. We share the same sick humor. We both have a fascination with pop culture, good and bad.

    Text RONNIE COOKE NEWHOUSE, Photography MAX FARAGO

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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.” 


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  • 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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    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