🚇Week 04 | Sep 30

Our aspirations are wrapped up in books / Our inclinations are hidden in looks -- "Wrapped Up in Books", Belle & Sebastian

IN CLASS

A skeleton holding a copy of Roland Barthes, painted by Manet-- Midjourney

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Going forward please turn in assignments by 3pm on Monday, so that we can review them before class!

• Your prof Carla G has a solo exhibition opening THIS Friday, with a press release written by your other prof A.V.M.

  • All info here

AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP

• Discussion and Crits

  • Alex: Barthes discussion

  • Eric Demo and Install: Pytorch 1hour 1/2

    • Click here to proceed: https://github.com/SuperTornadox/AI_Studio_DCGAN/tree/main
  • If time: Carla and Alex: Crits of Creation 03: Remix
• ****ERIC'S EMAIL for THIS WEEK: Eric He, [e-mail]****

ACTIVITIES 04

• READ E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman":

  • WATCH (optional) Ballet Coppelia which is based on this short story
• READ "My AI Lover" (watch this one on the NYT website directly so you can view the documentary the text refers to-- you can view it free with a trial account)
• READ "Are We All Technosexuals Now?"
• READ "A.I. Is Making the Sexual Exploitation of Girls Even Worse"
• WRITE a two paragraph response to one or more of the above readings/viewings [post to the Discord, also share as a doc in your folder on the class google drive]

• CREATION 04 Do Something and Do Something Else