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Erosion: When Machines Take Over Our Skills
Erosion is a short film I made with Solomon Leyba for a show at Offline Gallery in 2025, it was commissioned by Seed AI. This is the text.
Erosion
No bombs, no sentient nano-drones, no grandiose ending for humanity, just the slow erosion...
Death by Data: On Looksmaxxing and Cyborgs
I have a new essay out in SSENSE about Looksmaxxing.
Looksmaxxing sounds like the topic du jour but, in many ways, it is an extension of socio-cultural currents which were apparent in other facets of society.
being-on-line is a reader-s...
Americans Hate AI
Artificial intelligence has a severe public image problem.
The average American despises AI.
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57% of Americans rate the risks of AI as high versus 23% for benefits.
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The most common reason was the “concern about AI eroding human...
The Treachery of Images
I recently published a year-end essay for Ocula called “The Death of Images”, in which I revisit some of the concepts I had originally thought in my essay 2023 “The Treachery of Images.” Originally published on Outland, the platform’s websi...
Mackenzie Thomas: Performing Online and on Stage
My guest this week is artist, writer and performer Mackenzie Thomas.
Fresh off her two-show sold out run in New York, we talk about her 4-hour durational performance "I Said What I Said" and explore how growing up online shaped her wor...
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