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  1. Exploring the Intersection of Technology and Art Education with Ryan Patton

    Some time ago, I had the privilege of speaking with Professor Ryan Patton about digital and art education. He shared many fascinating insights—read them below. Ryan Patton Ryan Patton is an associate professor and undergraduate program director of Art Education at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). With a career spanning over two decades, Ryan has become a leading voice in exploring the dynamic intersection of technology and art education. His research and teaching delve into the evolving role of digital media, human-computer interaction, and the ethical and educational implications of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the arts and education. In this…

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  2. Contempora intearther -machine interprets my dissertation and end of the year musings about AI

    One of the big things in digital technology this year has been the advancements in AI and in particular in machine learning (ML). A lot of great and exciting things has been written about them this year. From the almost incredible mind-reading AI to dystopian visions and further. Despite, AI and ML are producing novel ideas and applications, in some way the current hype of AI and ML reminds me of the hype of big data, or digitalisation, just a while back. The idea remains the same, but the buzzword has just changed. Art has not been left out of…

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  3. Misrecollection of forgetting’ -The absent minded programmers guide to machine learning

    “Programming is forgetting” teaches Allison Parrish, an NY-based artist, and programmer (Parrish, 2016). What she means is that by translating functions, actions and material into the digital world by programming we make compromises and forget the complexity of the world. Such accommodation is essential; otherwise, it would be very hard to create any digital programs. For instance, translating sound into digital form means choosing what components of the sound are vital and what are not. Same goes for digital photographs. We have to choose what is essential in the sounds or images and then translate that into repeatable procedures and…

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  4. Grasping AI systems

    Together with Mikko Dufva , I have started working on a project that handles the disconnect between the sophisticated digital systems and the experience of them. In particular, we focus on the new artificial intelligence systems that are being brought into many fields of society -including education. This research project is a continuation from our article “Grasping the Future of Digital Society” that introduced the concept of digi-grasping and our view of embodied digitality. That article is accepted to the Futures-journal and will soon be published. However, below is our abstract and slides from Fera-conference on education , held at…

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  5. Postman- a new podcast on art and postdigital culture!

    I have liked podcast for a long time; I have some podcast which I have been following for years and some, where an episode has given me new approaches or challenged my thoughts. All in all, I enjoy podcasts. For a while now I have been toying with an idea of starting a podcast of my own, a podcast that discusses art, culture, and society from a post-digital perspective. The reason to start such podcast is naturally that these topics interest me, both as an artist and as a researcher. But also, because I have not been able to find…

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  6. Postman episode 1: Tuomo Rainio

    podcast RSS Postman is a podcast focusing on the issues around culture, art and society in the postdigital era. Postman interviews and discusses with artists using code, electronics or digitality in interesting way. Furthermore, postman interviews researchers and other people focusing on the research of digital culture and society. In the first episode I interview Tuomo Rainio, Finnish artist and lecturer. Links: Tuomo Rainio's website Ars 17 Artists spotlight: Tuomo Rainio Gravitational Waves in Kiasma Ars 17+

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  7. Algorithmic content creation and the neoliberal hypercapitalism

    Writer and artist James Bridle recently posted an article on Medium in which he describes the strange and abusive world of children's youtube. The article as a whole is worth a read, and I strongly encourage you first to read that and then come back here. In short, what Bridle describes is the strange and often sick world of the postdigital condition, what I could name digital capitalism, where digital technologies are being used to quickly create content in order to get page-views to get ad clicks to get money. This maybe complicatedly sounding scheme is actually pervasive on the…

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