New Neural issue #76, What is real? is hot from the press + extra: a Destructive Circuits by Dani Ploeger, an envelope of hacked everyday digital technologies, functioning electronic audio circuits, with unexpected sounds

>https://neural.it/issues/neural-76-what-is-real/

“What is real? We should question what we see and what we hear now, more than ever, and this issue artist and writers show how reality has become a fragile concept.”

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Feral Class by Marc garrett

Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission

Through humorous, vivid storytelling and incisive critique, Garrett explores how his upbringing shaped his identity, forging a path that defied societal expectations.

Foreword by Cassie Thornton.

https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1561

I'm still remembering the Draconian rulings the courts handed down against non-commercial "file sharers" in the 00s.

So I cannot but marvel at how flexible they are towards the interests of capital.

Altman's "right to learn" argument was quickly picked up, setting a potentially major precedent.

"Authors’ complaint is no different than it would be if they complained that training schoolchildren to write well would result in an explosion of competing works,” Judge Alsup writes, adding that the Copyright Act “seeks to advance original works of authorship, not to protect authors against competition.”

https://www.theverge.com/news/692015/anthropic-wins-a-major-fair-use-victory-for-ai-but-its-still-in-trouble-for-stealing-books

I had a great conversation with @baratunde on Life with Machines about the millions of data workers worldwide who produce the data that fuels AI. We dug into the scale of this labor, its deeply human costs, and the possibilities for something better.

Watch it here https://youtu.be/4NSWFy11E8Q?feature=shared

Super happy to finally hold a physical copy of my book. It will be out and available after the summer, please contact me if you are interested to review it or to organize an event around it.

#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #MediaArchaeology #AnalogComputing #ExperimentalCinema #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena

copublished with KASK&Conservatorium Ghent, designed by Isabelle Vigier, final editing by Bureau Doove.