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Today is the official release of "Autographic Design - The Matter of Data in a Self-Inscribing World" published by MIT Press - a book about design practices focused on traces, material information, and evidence.
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Last week, the Center for Design hosted Michael U. Hensel for a talk with @dietoff. Hensel is an architect, a partner in the practice at OCEAN Architecture | Environment, and a professor at TU Wien.
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📚 Design Library // Autographic Design by Dietmar Offenhuber (@dietoff)
"An ambitious vision for design based on the premise that data is material, not abstract."
💡 Offenhuber was a speaker at Writing on Design #DRSBoston2024
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Practice-Track Professor of Urban Technology and Design (open rank)
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Tomorrow at 12pm ET, @kanarinka will join @dietoff and @sylviamath at the Media Lab to discuss writing about design. This conversation is part of @DRS2024. xitter.cf/MITDesignAcad/status/1…
RSVP for a conversation with Profs. Catherine D'Ignazio (@kanarinka) and Dietmar Offenhuber (@dietoff), moderated by Gita Manaktala (@sylviamath) on the subject of writing about design as part of @DRS2024.
June 27, 2024 12 - 1:30pm
MIT Media Lab 6th Floor
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Thurs., June 27th, join @kanarinka, author of Counting Feminicide, & @dietoff, author of Autographic Design, for a panel on writing about design @medialab. Books will be for sale, and a signing will follow. @thisisDRS #DRS2024Boston.
RSVP/details here 👉🏻 bit.ly/3xCiJvg
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RSVP for a conversation with Profs. Catherine D'Ignazio (@kanarinka) and Dietmar Offenhuber (@dietoff), moderated by Gita Manaktala (@sylviamath) on the subject of writing about design as part of @DRS2024.
June 27, 2024 12 - 1:30pm
MIT Media Lab 6th Floor
buff.ly/45d6dyM
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O tempo passa rápido! Faltam 12 dias para acabar a exposição "Existência Numérica: Emergências". A exposição tá linda e vale a pena ir quem ainda não foi. A visitação fica aberta de quarta a domingo no Futuros Arte e Tecnologia na R. Dois de Dezembro, 63, Rio de Janeiro. Venham!
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"We need to understand more and rank less" - Rankless is an experimental visualisation data project that explores the impact of universities. It is built on the idea that rankings obscure impact by reducing it to a single dimension rankless.org
The NUCA camera renders its subjects naked and "aims to provoke and question the current trajectory of generative AI in reproducing body images." a provocative speculative art project by Mathias Vef and Benedikt Gross nuca.rocks
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Submit artworks, pictorials and papers to the IEEE VIS’24 Arts Program. The deadline is June 2. visap.net/2024/
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#Datavisualization #dataviz #digitalart #dataart
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i'm fascinated by generative AI imperfectly reproducing canonical objects (e.g. the milky way, the mona lisa, dollar bills) xitter.cf/GoogleDeepMind/status/…
✍️ Prompt: “A long exposure photo of the Milky Way in a starry night sky, centered over an ocean beach at magic hour. The milky way is bright and prominent with many stars visible against a dark blue black atmosphere in light painting photography with vivid and bold colors. Shot on a professional camera with high contrast and a cinematic composition in the style.”
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📣 New paper ‘Shapes and frictions of synthetic data’ by Dietmar Offenhuber (@dietoff) discusses a relational and situational model that foregrounds 'the outliers, artifacts, and gaps' in datasets. #syntheticdata# #AI #USCensus #differentialprivacy
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Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people.
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ALT A lonely mud-brick well in a brown desert. It has been modified to add a 'caganar' - a traditional Spanish figure of a man crouching down and defecating - perched on the edge of the well. The caganar's head has been replaced with the menacing red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The sky behind this scene has been blended with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Catherine Poh Huay Tan (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/68166820@N08/49729911222/ Laia Balagueró (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/lbalaguero/6551235503/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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But while a chatbot can't produce truthful and informative articles, it *can* produce *bullshit* - at *unimaginable* scale. Chatbots are the workers that hedge-fund wreckers *dream* of: tireless, uncomplaining, compliant and obedient producers of nonsense on demand.
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A short thread about my new paper “Shapes and Frictions of Synthetic Data”, available with open access at @BigDataSoc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
10/11 See also a brief, 10min talk about the subject at MIT’s @MITLCAU recent conference on AI and the city: vimeo.com/1101211822#t=13m10…
11/11 Instead of representations or descriptions, synthetic data can be seen as material traces of the computational systems that generate them. They have autographic qualities, offering forensic clues about the corresponding models. See my recent book: autographic.design