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6 days ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
As shows by Björk and K Allado McDowell explore mass species extinction via AI, other artists find different ways to shift our ecological perspectives – here, we speak to some of the key players11 Images
The names of approximately 200,000 extinct species are featured in K Allado-McDowell’s new exhibition at Swiss Institute in New York. To the human brain, it’s almost impossible to comprehend such a vast collection of living things, much less their erasure from the Earth and its oceans.
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1 week ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
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On May 1, Björk – an artist and musician from Iceland, maybe you’ve heard of her – kicked off the 2025 CIRCA Prize with a screening of her theatrical epic Cornucopiaon London’s Piccadilly Lights. Alongside Michèle Lamy, who also appeared at the central London launch, she will join a bunch of other leading creatives on the jury for the video art prize, now in its fifth year.
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1 week ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
In February this year, the weekly active users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT soared past 400 million. A few months later, as it rolled out its tools for generating Ghibli-themed AI images, CEO Sam Altman suggested that as many as one in 10 people on Earth now use its systems.
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1 week ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
This week, Katy Perry issued a response to criticism of her most recent tour, Lifetimes, which kicked off in Mexico on April 23 and will travel to a number of US arenas starting next week, before moving on to Australia, Europe and China, finishing up in Abu Dhabi this winter. Early performances of the show have been criticised and/or ruthlessly mocked online for their staging and choreography, on top of Perry’s “low energy” performances.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Thom Waite
Russell Brand granted conditional bail after appearing in London court on rape and assault chargesLONDON (AP) — Actor-comedian Russell Brand was granted conditional bail by a London court on Friday after appearing to face charges of rape and sexual assault involving four women. Brand, 49, did not enter a plea. He previously denied the allegations made against him. He was swarmed by photographers …
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2 weeks ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
There’s a certain kind of character that crosses our screens on a daily basis: they say all the right things, look the part, and arrange their face into the appropriate expressions... but something seems off. Maybe their delivery is a little too perfect, their look too carefully-cultivated, their face too smooth. Maybe their idle chatter, delivered direct to a front-facing iPhone camera, reads more like lines from a script.
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4 weeks ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
In 2024, the NASA astrophysicist Dr Amber Straughn told Dazed she was “very hopeful” that we’d find life on another planet in our lifetimes. This week, it appears we got a step closer, as researchers at Cambridge University revealed the “most promising signs yet” of life beyond our solar system, in the form of a chemical biosignature. What is a biosignature, you ask? Essentially, it’s a chemical that can only be produced (as far as we know) by organic processes.
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4 weeks ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
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In 2019, the photographer Lauren Luxemburg was on a boring date in east London, when the guy disappeared to the bathroom and she got chatting to someone else at the bar. That random stranger turned out to be the cinematographer Joshua Fry and, after showing him some of her photos, he told her that he loved her use of the midday sun. “I was like, what the hell are you talking about?” she says. But he persisted. “He was like, ‘You’re gonna be a director...
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4 weeks ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
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In 2019, the photographer Lauren Luxenberg was on a boring date in east London, when the guy disappeared to the bathroom and she got chatting to someone else at the bar. That random stranger turned out to be the cinematographer Joshua Fry and, after showing him some of her photos, he told her that he loved her use of the midday sun. “I was like, what the hell are you talking about?” she says. But he persisted. “He was like, ‘You’re gonna be a director...
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4 weeks ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
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Thousands of years ago, pilgrims from across Greek civilisation flocked to the mountainside settlement of Delphi, to consult the Oracle at the Temple of Apollo. The priestess would deliver prophecies in a state of religious ecstasy, channelling the temple’s god... or maybe it was just the toxic fumes she inhaled from a fissure in the rock. Either way, there is something magical about the ancient site to this day, from its ever-present myths to the shifting light on its peaks and valleys.
