Abelardo Gil-Fournier
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Abelardo Gil-Fournier
@abelardogfournier.bsky.social
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Artist. Research fellow at Fundación BBVA. Author, with Jussi Parikka, of Living Surfaces. Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (MIT Press 2024) - https://abelardogfournier.org/
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Next week in Prague: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecstatic-t... "This symposium delves into artistic research and expanded documentary forms. We will focus on the concept of material resistance—how materiality, environment, and the media we use inform and challenge our perceptions of reality."
Ecstatic Truth IX symposium: Ways of Knowing
practice as research, material resistance and re-presented reality in expanded documentary form.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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Este viernes tenemos una cita en @traficantes.bsky.social para debatir sobre cultura libre, herramientas y hacktivismos en la era de la Inteligencia Artificial con @patxangas.bsky.social #MargaPadilla @[email protected] #libreriaMalaletraVK

➕ info: traficantes.net/actividad/co...
Admired Jonathan Sterne's work. Didn't have the pleasure to know him. His influence is notable among practitioners of all kinds... writers, artists, musicians... Feeling gratitude right now.
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anyone interested in owning a copy can officially pre-order a copy through the publisher website next week. I will definitely share a link and if you'd help me out with any boosts I sure would appreciate it! the sooner the 1000 copies get bought up 2/3
table of contents for Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook
At long last, I can share the final table of contents for Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (forthcoming from Anthology Editions…sometime…soon!)–a coffee table book …
loriemerson.net
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You are invited to the Photoecologies Study Group, a new space for exploring photography as an environmental, elemental and energetic assemblage. To find out more about and register to attend our upcoming events, see our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/o/photoecolo... .
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What are the emergency plans for @archive.org ? Musk and the Trump Administration will surely target it. It is vulnerable because it is an US-based NGO. Are there backup plans outside of US control? We need an European initiative!
Nice read about the insides of LLMs, featuring their failure at compositional tasks and their need of external chain of thoughts: "It’s mimicking something that it has seen, but it doesn’t have full understanding of it” www.quantamagazine.org/chatbot-soft...
Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations | Quanta Magazine
Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.
www.quantamagazine.org
"Too much history had passed for that to be possible: the music was much more than the notes." Val Wilmer features in the first episode of the podcast Much More than the Notes by Ruben Coll for the radio of the @museoreinasofia.bsky.social radio.museoreinasofia.es/en/much-more...
Much More than the Notes
Episode 1. Val Wilmer. Sitio web de la Radio del Museo Reina Sofía.
radio.museoreinasofia.es
LUMI premiere at @transmediale.bsky.social ! This Sunday our latest video essay will be screened, as part of the festival programme. The session will be followed by a conversation with Marco Ferrari @marcoferrari.bsky.social.
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Am 22. Dezember 1925 wurde Berlins erste Rolltreppe heutiger Bauart im Warenhaus Tietz in der Leipziger Straße in Betrieb genommen.
Am Fuß der Treppe gab ein umgeschulter Liftboy Anweisungen und Hilfestellung.
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Out now - Special issue ‘Seeing Photographically’ (Media Theory 8.1, 2024), edited by Scott McQuire, Celia Lury, Jasmin Pfefferkorn, Daniel Palmer and Emilie K. Sunde.

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Muchas ganas!
¿Por qué dejamos que los algoritmos decidan por nosotros? ¿Cómo un neofascista como Elon campan a sus anchas en este mundo tecnológico?
Aquí 10 razones para animarte leer (y comprar) nuestro libro ( @ujue.bsky.social )
El algoritmo paternalista
katakrak.net/cas/editoria...
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As Black Friday purchases begin to arrive at your door, consider their packaging — more than likely in cardboard boxes. These "abject objects," @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes, are touchpoints to a global apparatus of commerce, consumption & waste. They bring the logistics chain to our doorsteps.
World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination
Cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a geography of consumption, disposal, and reuse — that spans from Amazon to the Container Corporation of America.
placesjournal.org
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Calming my last nerve with a free replay of the Carolyn Enger recital I saw on Sunday afternoon at Klavierhaus in Manhattan. I wrote the notes for her CD, so I'm maybe not wholly objective… but this is some deft programming and selfless playing. www.youtube.com/live/qZYVo_w...
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The British Society for Literature and Science has just published a very generous review of our book, Living Surfaces, by Chloé Germaine. What a nice surprise, with many key ideas so clearly summarized in the text: www.bsls.ac.uk/2024/12/gil-...
A few days ago we had a conversation with Asijit Datta, head of the department of Media Studies at the Easwari School of Liberal Arts in Chennai, India. It revolved around our book Living Surfaces, and its political and aesthetic implications. Here's the link to it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAb4...
Asijit Datta in conversation with Jussi Parikka and Abelardo Gil-Fournier on "Living Surfaces"
YouTube video by Asijit Datta
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I've been trying to figure out how I might organize the next volume of #othernetworks, assuming a publisher might be interested. the pre-internet networks I describe in Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook are organized by underlying infrastructure loriemerson.net/2024/03/14/t... 1/4
table of contents for Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook
At long last, I can share the final table of contents for Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (forthcoming from Anthology Editions…sometime…soon!)–a coffee table book …
loriemerson.net