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Strange Rules opening @ Palazzo Diedo Venice
Curated with @HUObrist @hollyherndon & Adriana Rispoli
Architecture with sub, led by Niklas Bildstein Zaar
matdryhurst
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matdryhurst
@matdryhurst
Creator w/ @hollyherndon
Oxford HAI Lab / Ethics Institute
Strange Rules May -Nov @ Venice
Starmirror June-Oct @ K21, Düsseldorf
- Our GPU organ plays music acoustically by controlling the RPM of each fan
00:00 - Spotify is 16 years old, billions invested, went public making investors a boatload, barely turns a profit. No new ideas. Still vaunted as the most plausible future model for music. Opensea likely makes 9 figures profit yearly. Artists happy. When does the narrative shift?
- I think there is a mental health crisis amongst both journalists and artists, and I think that ad driven platform capitalism is largely responsible
- Coming from someone potentially about to incur significant losses this year from canceled tours - now would be a *great* time to spend $5-10 on that new record you like. Gutted for artists who have been planning new releases for the coming months.
- If only musicians had something of value they could sell, a remote experience meticulously crafted to provide an hours worth of entertainment for a reasonable price. Almost like a book, or a movie, but with sound.
- Black Mirror is always fun but the scary tech thing has run its course. Time for some economic horror. Someone needs to capture tfw you book an Airbnb and realize the houses in the nice neighborhoods are rented by jobless heirs of ppl who paid peanuts for them in 1982
- Always sobering to learn scenes you’ve been in for over a decade simply don’t exist for almost everyone else
I can't tell if all of these things are incredibly early and I live under a rock (bc I've seen and heard close to none of these things irl) or an inflation of the impact of incredibly niche new york art scene subcultures, but leaning to the latter - Losing music journalism is devastating. No archive, no history, no scrutiny, no culture, just atemporal confusion. No past, no future, no progress, just things happening.
- Old music industry: listeners dig through records to decide which artist to spend their money on Streaming industry: artists dig through listeners to decide which demographic to spend their money on with targeted follow pleas
- Releasing our first @spawning_ tool to help artists see if they are present in popular AI Art training data, and register to use our tools to opt in and opt out of AI training I think we have created a way to make this work out well for everyone Visit haveibeentrained.com
- When something generates enough steam to warrant people writing long essays about how it’s not art, it’s probably art
- The left are missing a generational opportunity by dismissing AI, largely due to their apparent disinterest in reading about how it actually works
