Ruby Thelot

New York, Toronto

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The Internet Was the Beginning of a New Folk Artist. Artificial Intelligence May Be Its End.

Nov 1, 2024 | artnews.com | Ruby Thelot

Everyone wants to be a creator. According to a report by YouTube, SmithGeiger, and the Fandom Institute, 65 percent of teenagers and young adults aged 14 to 24 now identify as creators. But the creator’s future is uncertain: the rise of AI-generated content is challenging their place in our limited and highly competitive attention landscape. What good is a content creator if we can generate unique content customized to each individual at will and at scale?
Ruby Thélot on how science fiction shapes the world

Oct 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Ruby Thelot |Lillian Davies |Tracey Emin |Garrett Bradley

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Why Drake is the most meme’d rapper of all time

May 1, 2024 | dazeddigital.com | Ruby Thelot

The host of the first-ever meme symposium dedicated to Drake studies explores why the rapper is all over our social media feeds Drake is everywhere: the supermarket, the club, the gym, the car, the radio, starting fights with AI. If you live in a metropolitan area, you cannot escape him, especially in the US and Canada. In an interview earlier this year with fashion designer Recho Omondi, Yasiin Bey, the artist formerly known as Mos Def, was asked whether he thought Drake’s music was hip-hop.
What Song Will You Play As You Await The Apocalypse?

Mar 12, 2024 | bylinebyline.com | Ruby Thelot

The End Times is a column cataloging the omens of the Apocalypse as they occur in culture. You have a few minutes left. Melancholia is approaching. You have the aux. Your fingers grasp the phone, its brightness dull due to low battery. It recognizes your face and unlocks. What app do you choose? Is your final song on a streaming service? Do you have it downloaded in case there is no service? Is the song an unreleased deep cut only available on Youtube or in the Soulseek folder in your iCloud files?
Unsure How To Deal With New-Age Anxiety? Try Fantasy.

Dec 5, 2023 | bylinebyline.com | Ruby Thelot

In “The Scream,” it is understood that the yell punctures the calm of the urban setting. The scream is a freak-out, by nature, temporary and cathartic. Our age is different in that the scream seems to be digitally recorded and played on loop on a buggy media player. There is no end in sight for the freak-out, it has become endless.
10 Ways Human Writing Will Survive The Textpocalypse

Sep 14, 2023 | bylinebyline.com | Ruby Thelot

The End Times is a column cataloguing the omens of the Apocalypse as they occur in culture. I remember the first piece of writing I ever really loved. I was rummaging carelessly through the second drawer my father’s dresser looking for change and stumbled upon a beige book with crispy brittle pages, as if the book had been slow toasted for decades on a perennial radiator. I took it out.
A Story Of Two Pompeii Lovers

Aug 18, 2023 | bylinebyline.com | Ruby Thelot

A Mount Vesuvius explosion, a french bistro, the Messiah's return, and more climactic events. Published The End Times is a column cataloguing the omens of the Apocalypse as they occur in culture. A million Cassandra’s could not convince me to leave without seeing you.
Last Days In Las Vegas

Jul 6, 2023 | bylinebyline.com | Ruby Thelot

As Coney Island to Manhattan, Las Vegas is the incubator for America’s wildest ideas, a playground for experimentation, nuclear or otherwise. Just like Coney Island in 1906, the last grand idea is the construction of a giant sphere, the largest on Earth, allegedly. 875,000 square feet of spherical area all devoted to entertainment which should, God willing, open to the public in September of this year.
The Treachery of Images

Jul 5, 2023 | outland.art | Ruby Thelot |Brian Droitcour

Commentary by Ruby Justice Thelot July 5, 2023 Around 73,000 years ago, early humans in what is now Blombos, South Africa, dipped stones in scarlet ochre and carved into cavernous walls ladder-shaped figures, dots, and handprints to depict their world. The representational image is mimetic—it imitates nature. For Aristotle, the image is a simulation that engenders an emotional response in the viewer as they see themselves in what is being depicted, fictional or otherwise.
Byline

Jun 8, 2023 | bylinebyline.com | Ruby Thelot

The End Times is a column cataloguing the omens of the Apocalypse as they occur in culture. A barren rocky landscape at dawn. Two vast legs of plastic stand in the desert. Near them, a group of young girls playing with baby dolls approaches and stares in awe. They abandon their pretend babies, smashing them into pieces, and embrace the monolith: stylish, slender, a woman, an aspiration, the new Idol, Barbie. Margot Robbie winks. BARBIE – Out July 2023.