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Claus Gunti

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Curator and art historian, interested in the interstice between digital worlds and "reality". Currently working on AI and emotions. Working at ecal.ch & centrephotogeneve.ch https://clausgunti.ch

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Claus Gunti @clausgunti.bsky.social · Feb 28

First images of our new research project "Soft photography" at écal, addressing emotions and synthetic images are online. An early conclusion seems to be the incredible complexity/ multi-layered nature of emotional responses to generative AI and CGI images on social media. ecal.ch/en/feed/proj...

Soft Photography

Soft Photography is a research project conducted by the Master of Photography at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne with the support of the HES-SO. It aims to shed light on the role of human e...

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The Art Newspaper France @tanfrance.bsky.social · Jun 4

Le Centre de la photographie Genève inaugure une série d’essais sur la photographie, dont le deuxième volume s’intéresse aux formes d’exposition du médium.
Par Zoé Isle de Beauchaine.

Exposer la photographie aujourd'hui

Le Centre de la photographie Genève inaugure une série d’essais sur la photographie, dont le deuxième volume s’intéresse aux formes d’exposition du médium.

www.artnewspaper.fr

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · May 30

Steyerl challenges us to recognise the vast scale of AI’s ubiquity and also to realise its ‘artificial stupidity’ artreview.com/hito-steyerl...

Hito Steyerl’s ‘Medium Hot’: The Age of Slop

Steyerl challenges us to recognise the vast scale of AI’s ubiquity and also to realise its ‘artificial stupidity’

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Claus Gunti @clausgunti.bsky.social · May 27

Hmm, there seems to be an army of bots with my name on X 🤔

Claus Gunti @clausgunti.bsky.social · Apr 11

Imagenet really seems to think that I am a (very) bad guy… If in Paris, do check out the Jeu de Paume fantastic AI exhibition.

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Monopol @monopolmagazin.bsky.social · Apr 11

Seine Pool-Bilder machten David Hockney berühmt, seine Lebenslust macht ihn unsterblich – selbst 70 Jahre passioniertes Rauchen können ihm wenig anhaben. Jetzt lädt die Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris den 87-Jährigen ein, ihr gesamtes Haus zu bespielen. Wir stellen Höhepunkte seiner Laufbahn vor

David Hockney in Paris: Liebe das Leben

Seine Pool-Bilder machten David Hockney berühmt, seine Lebenslust macht ihn unsterblich. Jetzt lädt die Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris den 87-Jährigen ein, ihr gesamtes Haus zu bespielen. Wir stelle...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Apr 11

“This essay traces the transatlantic trade in mercury and silver through its replacement by nineteenth-century transpacific and intra-American networks, underscoring the imperial relationships and labor histories that underlie photography’s mineral dependencies.”

Mercury is a Messenger : Photography’s Dependence on Quicksilver and Mining Labor | American Art: Vol 39, No 1

Mercury was necessary to early photography, from developing the daguerreotype plate with its fumes to the extraction of silver through a process of amalgamation. But these minerals were acquired at gr...

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Casilli @casilli.bsky.social · Apr 11

Another "AI" company faces fraud charges, as Filipino workers powered its app. #DiPLab has been documenting cases like this since 2027. Not just small startups cutting corners: Google, Amazon have been caught doing it. Not just a few rotten apples, either. This 💩 is systematic.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Apr 10

Fintech founder charged with fraud after ‘AI’ shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines

Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience, was charged with defrauding investors on Wednesday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Founded in 2018, Nate raised over $50 million from investors like Coatue and Forerunner Ventures, most recently raising […]

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Claus Gunti @clausgunti.bsky.social · Apr 4

Currently reading writing assignments of écal master photography students #cuteness #design 😍

Claus Gunti @clausgunti.bsky.social · Apr 1

Terrifying on so many levels...

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · Apr 1

Militarized Cutefication

Claus Gunti @clausgunti.bsky.social · Mar 31

Just reposting this fantastic article by Matthew Allen for the CCA on the visual proximity between 1980s architectural CGI renderings and cyberpunk anime (in FR or ENG): www.cca.qc.ca/fr/articles/...

Claus Gunti @clausgunti.bsky.social · Mar 28

Si vous êtes à Lausanne samedi 29 mars, rejoignez-nous pour la lancement de la collection Superscripte, avec les autrices et les graphistes du projet, à 10h00 à MSBWB.ch 🥐☕️ 📗 Infos sur >https://www.centrephotogeneve.ch/event/booklaunch-superscripte-2/

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie e.V. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social · Mar 28

Call for Papers: Liken – Tiktoken – Prompten: Medienpraktiken im Diskurs. Individuelle und kollektive Handlungsmuster der (Post-)Digitalität #cfp #soziologie

Liken – Tiktoken – Prompten: Medienpraktiken im Diskurs. Individuelle und kollektive Handlungsmuster der (Post-)Digitalität

Sammelband herausgegeben von Christian Leineweber (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg) und Claudia de Witt (FernUniversität in Hagen)

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Jon Uriarte @jonuriarte.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 26

Today we have a #screenwalk with Leon-Etienne Kühr and Ting-Chun Liu (who shared this image on their presentation on the last CCC) doing a live-coding spiral/recursive/feedbackloop experiment with GenAI models.

You can join us at 7pm CET on screenwalks.com

Two photorealistic images side by side. The image on the left shows a slice of raw salmon moving sliding over water with the "Salmon Floating" caption underneath. The image on the right shows a salmon swimming on the water with the same "Salmon Floating" caption underneath.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.bsky.social · Mar 25

I found mine and @friendsofbear.bsky.social ‘s 2025 Kitten Name List.

Botober 2024
Art prompts generated by very tiny language models

1. Collide Loopstorm
16. Cabled Sins
2. OMG Power
17. Bogma
3. Evil Gold
18. Ruinstrees
4. Song of the Booty
19. Hellbrawk
5. Great Flake
20. Scarlet Chaos
6. Popchop
21. Grandma's Spritches
7. Deathmop
22. Low Fuzzy Feats
8. Fuzzy Night
23. Bars*
9. Holy Ship
24. Hallowy Maples
10. Distracting Sphere
25. Hobbats
11. Tart of Death
26. The Snawk
12. Hold Mouse
27. Garbage Plant
13. Sprange
28. The Shark Knight
14. Womp Mittens
29. Cinder Frankenstein
15. Snuggle Features
30. Handy Panda
31. Goddass

Selected from vintage neural net results

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Monopol @monopolmagazin.bsky.social · Mar 26

Marisa Merz war Autodidaktin und wurde im Kreise der männlichen Arte-Povera-Helden lange übersehen. In Bern wird sie nun endlich als eigenständige Stimme hörbar

Marisa Merz in Bern: Eine Künstlerin mit feinen Antennen

Marisa Merz war Autodidaktin und wurde im Kreise der männlichen Arte-Povera-Helden lange übersehen. In Bern wird sie nun endlich als eigenständige Stimme hörbar

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Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social · Mar 25

The whole series looks amazing - delighted to be in such great company! All talks are online and open to all, but you must register: www.eventbrite.com/cc/towards-a...

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🇸🇱🇴🇵 (𝙻𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚌𝚊𝚖) @alanbutler.info · Mar 22

🇮🇹 TORINO! 🇮🇹

The largest ever display of my Virtual Cyanotype Botany series will take place at OGR Torino as part of Exposed photography festival 2025.

Almost Real. From Trace to Simulation:
Alan Butler, Nora Al-Badri, Lawrence Lek.
16 Apr-2 June.

ogrtorino.it/events/expos...

EXPOSED 2025

EXPOSED 2025 Almost Real. From Trace to Simulation Una mostra co-prodotta da Exposed e OGR Torino a cura di Samuele...

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Steffen Siegel @steffensiegel.bsky.social · Mar 21

Starting in two months from now, the American Academy in Rome pays tribute to six women who played a key role in applying photography to archaeology.

Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape

AAR presents Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape, the first exhibition dedicated to the influence of a group of trailblazing women who helped record archaeology and landscapes fro...

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Claus Gunti @clausgunti.bsky.social · Mar 21

I wonder what our inability to envision new (fictional) futures since the 80s tells us about our ability to cope with the present...

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Mar 21

We are living through the nightmares of the 80s

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kottke.org @kottke.org · Mar 18

UbuWeb, a pirate library of avant-garde artifacts, closed in 2024. But last month, they started the site back up again. “Archiving reemerges as a strong form of resistance, a way of preserving crucial, subversive, and marginalized forms of expression.” [ubu.com]

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Claus Gunti @clausgunti.bsky.social · Mar 20

Quite problematic indeed. Nice to be pirated alongside my (deceased) dad, though 🙂.

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Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · Mar 20

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

Authors, search your name here:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Mar 18

"California legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track & disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training...it’s an impossible standard that could crush small AI startups & developers...."

Trash take.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly

California legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track and disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training. At first glance, this might s...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Mar 17

My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping:

www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...

AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality

Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.

www.404media.co

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Mar 17

Mein kleiner Text über die grossangelegten Datenbanksäuberungen und Bildzensurkampagnen in den USA sow die veränderte Rolle von digitalen Bildarchiven angesichts generativer KI ist jetzt auch online frei verfügbar www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Wo US-Behörden Archivbilder von Minderheiten löschen

Wenn US-Behörden damit beginnen, historische Fotos von Frauen, Schwarzen und Schwulen aus dem Netz zu löschen, kommt es jetzt auf Datensicherung an. Gegenarchive müssen aufgebaut werden!

www.faz.net

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