Controlling a Marionette with Human Motion Capture Data Katsu Yamane, Jessica K. Hodgins, and H. Benjamin Brown The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003

iRobot Japan Product Launch, 2023

duckrabbit.tv, Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

The McCurry photoshop scandal rang some alert bells but it was soon forgotten, and that "iconic" style is now being parroted by AI, draining the deep meaning that could once be read in the "Afghan Girl' photo. petapixel.com/2016/05/26/p...

Daily Life Noise — wrote a thing on synthetic training data for indoor navigation and its struggle with the complexity of reality. www.e-flux.com/architecture... "Rather than generating a world beyond imagination, prompted content exposes defined parameters."

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/

mostly celebrated for her photography, Berenice Abbott also invented a handful of tools taken for granted today. among them the monopod & tripod, especially important for her work at MIT 'documenting science' for a new physics text book. [Monopod Variation 1940's] & [Magnetic Field from Recto 1958]