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1 week ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
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The 2024 short film Généalogie de la violence, a haunting take on the unspoken brutality and humiliation of a “random” police stop, was a turning point in the career of its French-Algerian creator, Mohamed Bourouissa. “That experience changed how I look at my own work,” he tells Dazed. As a result, he felt the need to return to “past gestures” from his 20-year career as a photographer, and shine a light on them in new ways.
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1 week ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
“Artificial intelligence is evolving faster than any technology in human history,” reads a bill recently passed by lawmakers in New York, called the RAISE Act. The rapidly developing technology, it says, carries some “very severe risks” (we know...) that existing laws have failed to keep up with. The RAISE Act aims to change this with a series of legal measures aimed at frontier AI models made by top companies like OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic.
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2 weeks ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
Right-wing ‘philosopher’ Curtis Yarvin has pitched the idea to the Trump administration, and it wouldn’t be the first time America has used art to flaunt its power on the world stage
In 1964, at the height of the Cold War, Robert Rauschenberg became the first US artist to win the grand prize at the Venice Biennale.
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3 weeks ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
It was inevitable, really. From the moment the first AI text-to-video tools were rolled out to the public, it was only a matter of time until even the most savvy internet users were fooled by the content in their feeds. Most just didn’t expect the final straw to be a baby kangaroo waiting for someone to check its documents at the airport.
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3 weeks ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
Luca Guadagnino is a busy man. Some might say too busy! But that hasn’t stopped him from entering talks to direct a new film about OpenAI, one of the world’s leading AI companies. Titled Artificial, the film will revolve around a behind-the-scenes corporate drama that took place in 2023. That might not sound quite as exciting as Bones and All’s cannibal love story, or as dynamic as the high-stakes tennis match that rounds out Challengers, but don’t be too quick to cast judgment.
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4 weeks ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
A large collection of objects from David Lynch’s life and career are set to go up for auction, following the director’s passing in January this year. Among the items up for sale? The famed red curtains and zig-zag carpet of the Black Lodge, Lynch’s personalised director’s chair, and espresso machines used by the filmmaker himself.
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1 month ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
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At first glance, Wes Anderson’s new film The Phoenician Scheme is a story about a ruthless plutocrat, Zsa-zsa Korda, determined to bulldoze everything in his path to put his titular masterplan into action. (Sound familiar?) It’s a high-stakes game and Korda has many opponents: rival tycoons, the US government, political radicals, and a string of deadly assassins.
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1 month ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
This week, Donald Trump signed into law the Take It Down Act, a new law designed to protect people – especially young women – from online sexual exploitation. Specifically aimed at revenge porn and sexually explicit deepfakes, the measure introduces penalties for websites and social media companies that “knowingly publish” intimate images without a person’s consent, including those created with AI. Backed by first lady Melania Trump, the proposal received unusual, almost total bipartisan support.
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1 month ago | 
dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite
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For Slava Mogutin, “Romance is not just about love – it’s about longing, fantasy, and danger.” That should give you some idea about the kind of artworks included in the exiled Russian artist and curator’s new show, My Romantic Ideal, in NYC. Football-themed nudes by Mogutin himself appear alongside explicit portraits by Bruce LaBruce, sun-soaked studies of the male body by Tyler Matthew Oyer, Łukasz Leja’s tender and NSFW take on Las Meninas, and more.
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1 month 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.
