Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?

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narrator: no, it cannot

Time to plug Alexander Peterhaensel's Voting Booth (2017) alexanderpeterhaensel.com/voting-booth...

This is amazing. I am sharing this with the people in our gestaltung.ai/en project, who are looking into similar approaches to DIY compute, unlearn.gestaltung.ai/de/article/r...

A worker sorts through a large pile of e-waste in an industrial facility, highlighting the environmental impact of discarded electronics.

We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?

In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.

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if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?

6.1 Innovating Scientific Publishing of Design Research 6.1 Innovating Scientific Publishing of Design Research: Promoting Plurality and Equity

At DRS 2026, we are hosting a track about Innovating Scientific Publishing of Design Research: Promoting Plurality and Equity. The call is open until October 31: drs2026.thedrs.org/6-1-innovati...

Photograph of three shelves with books, plus posters showing their covers. The books are the three un/learn AI books from our research project https://gestaltungai

The books are here! Come to kind-lab.de/transform2025/ to see them.

Photograph of three shelves with books, plus posters showing their covers. The books are the three un/learn AI books from our research project https://gestaltungai

The books are here! Come to kind-lab.de/transform2025/ to see them.

Banner saying Transform. Conference on AI, Art, Design and Society, September 24-27, 2025

Join us next week to reflect on AI, Art, Design, and Society at Transform 2025 in Trier! We are looking back at four years of gestaltung.ai/en, release a few books and meet for presentations and an exhibition! kind-lab.de/transform2025/

Bad Keyboards Thread:

So I like to make intentionally bad keyboards, in part because of my unfulfilled blood feud with mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, but mainly because I like being a chaos gremlin.

Most recently, the Juggling Keyboard:
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Ekphrasis Fall 2025

A whole issue of Dilettante Army on ekphrasis — from the method's origins; to image description / alt text + accessibility, to AI-based pattern recognition; to practices of describing films and maps and photobooks; to extremists' paranoid forensic *over*-analysis of memes + videos

Your last save pic is your moral philosophy.

ASN: AS7616
Location: Bangkok, TH
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Infrastructuring for Aesthetics of Access | Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis

Here is our article for aarhus2025.org on Infrastructuring for Aesthetics of Access wherein we reflect on the potential of designing accessibility not as a technical obligation, but as a situated, co-creative process. Based on work at kisd.de with un-label.eu dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Infrastructuring for Aesthetics of Access | Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis

Here is our article for aarhus2025.org on Infrastructuring for Aesthetics of Access wherein we reflect on the potential of designing accessibility not as a technical obligation, but as a situated, co-creative process. Based on work at kisd.de with un-label.eu dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

New paper w/ @spold.bsky.social. We introduce new methods to critique linguistic interfaces of AI chatbots, theorize one of ChatGPT's central engagement mechanics as the "praise/prompt envelope," and preview artworks that attune users to see its aesthetics of engagement dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Having worked with ambigous motion in the past, I just love these

Warp Records in 2001 Relive the early 2000s with the Warp Records in 2001. Visit the Web Design Museum’s gallery and experience the evolution of the internet.

Warp Records in 2001

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Headline from a book chapter saying "I Think He’s Got a Helicopter in His Pocket: The AI Chewing Gum" plus the author names Thomas Hawranke, Lasse Scherffig

Upcoming mini-article with @lotterydiscountz.bsky.social on an experimental film about the impossibility of prompting, based on John Smith’s The Girl Chewing Gum (1976)

Headline from a book chapter saying "I Think He’s Got a Helicopter in His Pocket: The AI Chewing Gum" plus the author names Thomas Hawranke, Lasse Scherffig

Upcoming mini-article with @lotterydiscountz.bsky.social on an experimental film about the impossibility of prompting, based on John Smith’s The Girl Chewing Gum (1976)

Astalavista. box. sk website in 1999

A piece of internet history

Astalavista. box. sk website in 1999

The preliminary program is online! aarhus2025.org/programme#ac... Meet us in Aarhus in August 👋

The preliminary program is online! aarhus2025.org/programme#ac... Meet us in Aarhus in August 👋

Museum of Jurassic Technology Suffers Smoke Damage - MyNewsLA.com A fire at what Smithsonian Magazine once called “Los Angeles’ strangest museum” caused smoke damage to some exhibits but resulted in no injuries before it was put out Wednesday. The fire was reported ...

(GAH!) "Museum of Jurassic Technology Suffers Smoke Damage"
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