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# Week 05 | Oct 7

"Some things you'll do for money and some you'll do for fun/ But the things you do for love are going to come back to you one by one" -- "Love Love Love", The Mountain Goats

<figure><img src="https://788392032-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FhnvzhCBSwXds8sM4smRK%2Fuploads%2Fifd1ZAQwFFHdJGGP3DHz%2FLHL.jpg?alt=media&amp;token=32cf5ec8-297a-4bc2-8ad0-94289de654db" alt=""><figcaption><p>Lynn Hershman Leeson: Moving Image and AI Innovator - a presentation of her work at MoMA in Spring 2024</p></figcaption></figure>

## IN CLASS

**AI RELATIONSHIPS AND EXTENDING REALITY**

* **Discussion**
  * Alex unpacks The Sandman
* **Crits of Remixes and Do Something, Do Something Else**
* **Presentation**
  * Carla:[OUR AGE OLD FASCINATION WITH AUTOMATA & THE POTENTIAL OF AI RELATIONSHIPS](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vStE_vA4C9msih5iAda4Kb7Pnr_HR0Yg9pKk6V7bkAsAPoMYgRnObNo6_DMszuRXg/pub?start=false\&loop=false\&delayms=600000\&slide=id.p3)

## ACTIVITIES 05

* **READ** Walter Benjamin [Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xsFkicoGjNJ-8Y011YCduQyneLPu6w95/view?usp=drive_link)
* **WRITE** an initial two paragraph response to the Benjamin reading OR your own Creation 05, below  **\[post to the Discord, also share as a doc in your folder on the class google drive**]
* **CREATION 05** [How Do I Love Thee, Let me Count the Prompts ](/visual-ai-studio-for-art-and-technology/creations/05-how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-prompts.md)