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James Bridle
@jamesbridle
Artist, Author of NEW DARK AGE (Verso, 2018) and WAYS OF BEING (Penguin/FSG, 2022). He/They.
Sep 8, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
As much as I've tried to stay away from all the AI image generation stuff because I think it sucks up all the oxygen from more pressing issues, I confess to be fascinated by the Crungus / Loab discussions. If you're not familiar, the Crungus is an artefact of DALL-E, a made-up word that somehow exists as a being with the image model:
Jan 19, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I am very pleased and excited to announce that I have a new book coming out this year: WAYS OF BEING, published in April in the UK, June in the US, and hopefully elsewhere soon. It's about technology, ecology, and the intelligence of everything. Here's the UK cover from @PenguinBooks, which will be released in April in all good bookstores, designed by @matthewoyoung. You can pre-order already! smarturl.it/waysofbeing
Mar 18, 2021 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Many years ago I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the British Library in St Pancras - back stage, behind the scenes. It was amazing; if you ever get the chance, go immediately. What was most extraordinary, to me, was not the floor after floor of seismically-shielded stacks, descending into the nether regions of the Earth, nor the (admittedly awesome) robotic conveyor system which moves stuff around. No, it was the preservation rooms.
Nov 12, 2020 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
This is a picture of a research session by the Children's Television Workshop in 1969, as they worked on an episode of Sesame Street. They used to show every episode to kids before broadcast, to make sure they were doing it right. That screen in the corner? That's The Distractor. In 1965, the Carnegie Corporation commissioned a report that noted that “nearly half the nation’s school districts do not now have kindergartens,” but “more households have televisions than bathtubs, telephones, vacuum cleaners, toasters, or a regular daily newspaper.”
Jan 5, 2018 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
Last year I was asked to choose a group of artists for the NGV Melbourne Triennial on the theme of 'The Virtual', and I am really pleased with the result. Each artist contributed a work or set of works, and a text to the online exhibition. Here they all are: Morehshin Allahyari (@morehshin)'s 'Distributed Monument' ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition_pos… - 3D-printed recreations of sculpture destroyed by ISIS - alongside The 3D Additivism Manifesto ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition_pos…