Emily Ratajkowski minted an NFT called “Buying Myself Back.” The NFT was sold by Christie’s Auction House for $175,000. The swimsuit image of Ratajkowski is from Sports Illustrated, which owns the image. The Instagram post wall hanging is actually a piece by artist Richard Prince, who Ratajkowski criticized for stealing her image without permission. The […]
Philosopher Vilem Flusser said, “We do not think about the act of writing while writing, but about what we are writing.” We understand writing as a form of art that comes directly from soul to page, an intimate reveal of human emotion. This core concept of writing is complicated with the development of AI trained […]
Technology: does your organization (or you) consider it an expenditure or an investment? How we label technology has a significant impact as it underscores assumptions that affect organizations’ efficacy in its internal and audience facing technology work. If an organization is, for lack of a better term, a technology Luddite, in orther words not using […]
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2022: The (2nd) Year of the NFT?
Welcome to our class website. You’ll be authoring your own blog posts here for your Rabbit Hole Assignments. One of the cool things about wordpress is you can categorize posts to help organize them. I will categorize my posts as “Announcements” and I will ask you to categorize yours as either “Rabbit Hole #1” or […]
We are in our last week of classes! And it is in the 80s outside! (didn’t it snow last week? . . .LOL). Monday we will be wrapping up class with a Guest Speaker (Alessandro Acquisti — whose article is in Canvas for your to read). We will do weekly news and discussion after he […]
I suspect many of you are sensing the near end of the semester. Congratulations! You’ve made it (and it’s May 1 on Thursday). I have your feedback from the survey and will review that and how we will progress through our May 10th final exam period / Rabbit Hole #2 presentations. On Monday night we […]
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Monday April 19: Public Policy
Happy Sunday to all! For tomorrow’s class we begin our 3 week adventure into infrastructure with a focus on cyber-security and net neutrality. (fyi — if the net neutrality link wasn’t working for you, here it is: https://amt-lab.org/blog/2018/1/why-net-neutrality-matters-for-the-arts ) Other laws exist that provide access rights / protection to the internet / from bad actors […]
Christi and I looking forward to hearing about everyone’s discoveries in your rabbit holes! As I posted in SLACK, today you are only required to attend during your group’s time. Please show up a little 5 minutes early to allow for any technical difficulties :-). Groups A,D, and F will remain in the main Zoom […]
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Week of March 29 (#9)
So, this week we go into a highly practical detour from our NFT / Blockchain adventures. Our class will begin with an explanation of how our Rabbit Hole due date / presentations / feedback loops will run on April 12 and see if there are any overarching questions. (REMINDER: NO CLASS APRIL 5) Then we […]
Monday we will review the 3 major forms of Artificial Intelligence, discuss algorithms, web / data scraping and machine learning (not always linked) and review our hands on that is due next week (as is the Review / Analysis assignment if you didn’t turn it in on the 8th or any day prior). We will […]