Michael Salu

Whose A.I. is this | WritersMosaic Magazine Michael Salu on I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine The Photographers Gallery London: extractive logic in AI images and language

Whose AI is this? New essay for @writersmosaic.bsky.social

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You can join our artist talk online tomorrow at 6.30pm GMT with The Photographers'​ Gallery London for our current exhibition. AI, archival photography, animation, filmmaking and more thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/art...

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Cybernetics, or Ghosts? — Stories from Myth to A.I. — Book and music compilation Edited by writer and artist Michael Salu, fifteen of today’s most daring writers from across the globe read and respond to Italo Calvino’s seminal essay ‘Cybernetics and Ghosts’ with rich and expansiv...

Now also available through
Metalabel with a very affordable $7 epub+pdf version inc. the album. Check it out! #ai #calvino #newbooks
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Huge thank you to @graywolfpress.bsky.social and editor, Yuka Igarashi!

Graywolf Lab interdisciplinary conversations and new writing from Graywolf Press

I joined Graywolf Lab for a roundtable discussion about games and gaming in life and art. The episode includes extracts from our writing. Also features Stephanie Burt, Tracy O'Neill, Elissa Washuta.
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From my Chrome browser hack series. #python #computervision

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You can read a lot more in the multimedia online extension of this project at unthinking.photography/commissions/...
The exhibition is open until June 15, so if you in London, I'd say its worth your while :)

Appropriating time as a material of intervention, the films attempt to disrupt the power of this frozen frame. By filming the photographs as the first creative measure of the compositions, we add another temporality to the frame.

The ‘natives’ as simple commodities, comparable to local fauna, to be found, controlled and utilised to deliver the fruits of these lands for a singular extractive idea of progress.

Colonial photography sets the vernacular for Western understanding of foreign landscapes and locals as docile material of conquest fantasy. Flora is rendered scenic, pretty, and benign.

Each of these films begins with a filmed photograph from the Cecil Rhodes archive kept at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. The footage becomes data for exploration, the beginnings of a time study.

The single shot films in our exhibition 'I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine' now open @thephotographersgallery, are structured by a four point concept, which I'll share a little of in this and subsequent posts.

No. 1: The photograph.

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Reading list:

A hand holding a copy of Red Earth, the book, on a beach.

Currently on the same latitude line west of it's place of origin. #prosepoetry #experimentalwriting #Dante #indiebooks

Cybernetics and ghosts: the digital future of writing | WritersMosaic Magazine WritersMosaic explores the digital future of writing with Michael Salu, Tice Cin, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Sara Saab, Irenosen Okojie Abeba Birhane

Revisiting Cybernetics & Ghosts by @michelsalu.bsky.social - "a thought experiment inspired by Italo Calvino’s 1967 essay of the same name to reflect on the expansive role technology plays in our lives and in literature today." Get lost in the future here bit.ly/3ZnKAXV

Cybernetics and ghosts: the digital future of writing | WritersMosaic Magazine WritersMosaic explores the digital future of writing with Michael Salu, Tice Cin, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Sara Saab, Irenosen Okojie Abeba Birhane

Big thanks to WritersMosaic for republishing my guest edition which launched the thought experiment leading to the anthology 'Cybernetics, or Ghosts?' check out some excellent short pieces & a look back to my essay. How much has changed? #ai #creativewriting
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Planetary Portals collective discussing their new exhibit at The Photographer's Gallery in London

The exhibition space with 4 films on the walls.

A quote from Aime Cesaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, which is on the wall of the exhibition

The title of the exhibition, handwritten

Our show 'I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine', is now open at The Photographer's Gallery, London until June 15. It's a work encouraging new ways of seeing.

The exhibition extends online at unthinking.photography

#ai #contemporaryphotography #filmmaking #artfilm #airesearch

Planetary Portals collective discussing their new exhibit at The Photographer's Gallery in London

The exhibition space with 4 films on the walls.

A quote from Aime Cesaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, which is on the wall of the exhibition

The title of the exhibition, handwritten

Our show 'I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine', is now open at The Photographer's Gallery, London until June 15. It's a work encouraging new ways of seeing.

The exhibition extends online at unthinking.photography

#ai #contemporaryphotography #filmmaking #artfilm #airesearch

Thank you, Anrick. Great to see you there and glad you found it interesting. Important to have these conversations

I wrote this book into, and for, the future we're currently unfolding #prose #prosepoetry #climate

Earthsuits: Context, Conditions, Culture YouTube video by Central Saint Martins

In here you can catch my talk at Central St. Martin's university on how language relates to a changing climate www.youtube.com/live/fISqCjY...

#ai #llms #climate #language #technology

Few copies left of my limited ed. chapbook with
Tangerine Press. An updated version of my essay WHAT LIES BEYOND THE RED EARTH? : AI, SUBJECTIVITY, COLONIALISM AND DREAMING OF EQUITABLE COMPUTATIONAL FUTURES.

Photo from The Red Earth Project

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Few copies left of my limited ed. chapbook with
Tangerine Press. An updated version of my essay WHAT LIES BEYOND THE RED EARTH? : AI, SUBJECTIVITY, COLONIALISM AND DREAMING OF EQUITABLE COMPUTATIONAL FUTURES.

Photo from The Red Earth Project

thetangerinepress.com/WALKING%20WO...

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It's been a pleasure to see how people have engaged with work that aims to challenge a little, especially now.
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The collection is at its best when the authors explicitly tackle the themes from Calvino's essay from the present, or with a contemporary view of the future, and blur the boundaries between life/death, man/woman, man/machine."

...In his introduction, compiler Michael Salu explains the idea: to have fifteen authors read Calvino's essay and, inspired by it, write a story. The results range from literary short stories with implicit references to the essay to complex, enigmatic experiments in form.

Dodgily translated extract "Anyway, some thoughts to indicate that the approach of the collection of stories 'Cybernetics, or Ghosts? Stories From Myth To A.l' is indeed interesting and well-found...

Nice to see this favourable review in the Dutch arts magazine, Gonzo Circus.