Rosemary Lee
@machineagency.bsky.social
Artist
Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude
Teaching at University of Porto (FEUP)
PhD in Digital Design, ITU, Colenhagen
Author: Algorithm, Image, Art, 2024
https://rosemary-lee.com
Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude
Teaching at University of Porto (FEUP)
PhD in Digital Design, ITU, Colenhagen
Author: Algorithm, Image, Art, 2024
https://rosemary-lee.com
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Rosemary Lee
@machineagency.bsky.social
· Nov 10
To new connections, welcome to Bluesky! I'm an artist and media researcher developing a historical context for emerging technologies such as AI. If you're into the intersection of the visual with computational processes I'd love to be in touch.
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Imagine owning SpaceX and not knowing what the ozone does.
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Imagine owning SpaceX and not knowing what the ozone does.
How normative is my autocorrect when it never accepts the first two attempts of writing anything and only lets me write what I want on the third, emphatic, attempt at writing the same thing I was trying to type…
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
How normative is my autocorrect when it never accepts the first two attempts of writing anything and only lets me write what I want on the third, emphatic, attempt at writing the same thing I was trying to type…
Spotted in the wild… Open Solitude is coming up on the 29th of November
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Spotted in the wild… Open Solitude is coming up on the 29th of November
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If a sector of our society as significant and all-encompassing as the workplace is “ruined” by the inclusion of half the population then by definition it was never working to begin with.
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If a sector of our society as significant and all-encompassing as the workplace is “ruined” by the inclusion of half the population then by definition it was never working to begin with.
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Gilles Deleuze died thirty years ago today.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/07/para...
www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/07/para...
Parallel Lines: Spinoza and Foucault (by way of Deleuze)
www.unemployednegativity.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Gilles Deleuze died thirty years ago today.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/07/para...
www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/07/para...
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If you haven't had the chance to experience the performance, the second release in this series stemming from it is now available! It's been wonderful to develop this with @ptudela.bsky.social and @visiophone.bsky.social and to get fantastic remixes by @earlabs.bsky.social and Joana de Sá.
New release in the 30xN series by @c and Visiophone, with a new track and video, 30xN — LRJ1, and goes remixes by Joana de Sá and Jos Smolders! Now available to download or stream www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @earlabs.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
If you haven't had the chance to experience the performance, the second release in this series stemming from it is now available! It's been wonderful to develop this with @ptudela.bsky.social and @visiophone.bsky.social and to get fantastic remixes by @earlabs.bsky.social and Joana de Sá.
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Narrator: The AI was, in fact, the problem.
November 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Narrator: The AI was, in fact, the problem.
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Dispatch #12274 from █████ ███████ ██ (CONFIDENTIAL)
1. House of L'IL Styrofoam
2. Liminal Tacos
3. Tower of Crumbling Webcams
1. House of L'IL Styrofoam
2. Liminal Tacos
3. Tower of Crumbling Webcams
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Dispatch #12274 from █████ ███████ ██ (CONFIDENTIAL)
1. House of L'IL Styrofoam
2. Liminal Tacos
3. Tower of Crumbling Webcams
1. House of L'IL Styrofoam
2. Liminal Tacos
3. Tower of Crumbling Webcams
Critically acclaimed horror film or your life as an academic? (or a secret third thing: they’re the same thing)
“a malevolent force keeps returning [your manuscript] to you with increasingly disturbing revisions.”
“a malevolent force keeps returning [your manuscript] to you with increasingly disturbing revisions.”
"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals."
Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program?
1. You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledg...
buff.ly
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Critically acclaimed horror film or your life as an academic? (or a secret third thing: they’re the same thing)
“a malevolent force keeps returning [your manuscript] to you with increasingly disturbing revisions.”
“a malevolent force keeps returning [your manuscript] to you with increasingly disturbing revisions.”
While perusing the gift shop at Kunsthalle Praha, I found the catalog for Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art, where I wrote the entry on Anna Ridler‘s work, Mosaic Virus. The exhibition and book explore how electricity has transformed artistic practice from 1920 to the present day, (1/2)
October 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
While perusing the gift shop at Kunsthalle Praha, I found the catalog for Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art, where I wrote the entry on Anna Ridler‘s work, Mosaic Virus. The exhibition and book explore how electricity has transformed artistic practice from 1920 to the present day, (1/2)
Rarely does an image capture a moment so well as this
the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution
October 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Rarely does an image capture a moment so well as this
Umede Festival closed with a gathering around a bonfire, with words from philosopher Audrius Beinorius. What a warm, open, and generous group, I feel so lucky to have been able to be a part of this and to get to bring home so many lovely experiences.
October 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Umede Festival closed with a gathering around a bonfire, with words from philosopher Audrius Beinorius. What a warm, open, and generous group, I feel so lucky to have been able to be a part of this and to get to bring home so many lovely experiences.
I’m giving a guest talk at FAMU in Prague:
Wednesday Oct. 22, 5 pm
Smetanovo nábř. 2, Praha 1
Algorithmic Processes in Image Production
The talk will center on my recent book, Algorithm, Image Art (2024), as well as drawing on artistic practice.
Wednesday Oct. 22, 5 pm
Smetanovo nábř. 2, Praha 1
Algorithmic Processes in Image Production
The talk will center on my recent book, Algorithm, Image Art (2024), as well as drawing on artistic practice.
October 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I’m giving a guest talk at FAMU in Prague:
Wednesday Oct. 22, 5 pm
Smetanovo nábř. 2, Praha 1
Algorithmic Processes in Image Production
The talk will center on my recent book, Algorithm, Image Art (2024), as well as drawing on artistic practice.
Wednesday Oct. 22, 5 pm
Smetanovo nábř. 2, Praha 1
Algorithmic Processes in Image Production
The talk will center on my recent book, Algorithm, Image Art (2024), as well as drawing on artistic practice.
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On this day in 2011, Friedrich Kittler died in Berlin. Born in Rochlitz, Germany in 1943, Kittler was, and for many still is, the leading figure in German media theory, or Medienwissenschaften.
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October 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
On this day in 2011, Friedrich Kittler died in Berlin. Born in Rochlitz, Germany in 1943, Kittler was, and for many still is, the leading figure in German media theory, or Medienwissenschaften.
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This weekend, I’m taking part in Umede Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania. I’ll give a performative lecture titled “Algorithms, Stones & Digital Dark Matter” on how we might conceptualize new perspectives on the opacity in machine learning systems and current visions of artificial intelligence.
October 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This weekend, I’m taking part in Umede Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania. I’ll give a performative lecture titled “Algorithms, Stones & Digital Dark Matter” on how we might conceptualize new perspectives on the opacity in machine learning systems and current visions of artificial intelligence.
This weekend Cassandra Bookshop in Porto hosted the launch of the book Inteligências Entretecidas, which includes my essay “Imitation Aesthetics”. The book documents the workshop series organized by Earthsea Association and is edited by Ana Carvalho, Isabel Carvalho, and Vera Carmo.
October 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This weekend Cassandra Bookshop in Porto hosted the launch of the book Inteligências Entretecidas, which includes my essay “Imitation Aesthetics”. The book documents the workshop series organized by Earthsea Association and is edited by Ana Carvalho, Isabel Carvalho, and Vera Carmo.
Day 1 as a fellow at @akademiesolitude.bsky.social included orientation with the other new fellows and a meeting in the library. Already finding new things to dig into
October 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Day 1 as a fellow at @akademiesolitude.bsky.social included orientation with the other new fellows and a meeting in the library. Already finding new things to dig into
a captcha arithmetic test just commanded me, "Prove your humanity." and it felt a little bit too representative of the general sentiment currently
October 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
a captcha arithmetic test just commanded me, "Prove your humanity." and it felt a little bit too representative of the general sentiment currently
We will present the work MYTH, MAGIC, MACHINES from September 27th to November 30th, at Museu Zer0 in the Algarve.
The work was originally comissioned by gnration as part of their órbita program that features transdisciplinary works between music, art and technology
youtube.com/watch?v=90hlSPMpLa8
The work was originally comissioned by gnration as part of their órbita program that features transdisciplinary works between music, art and technology
youtube.com/watch?v=90hlSPMpLa8
September 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
We will present the work MYTH, MAGIC, MACHINES from September 27th to November 30th, at Museu Zer0 in the Algarve.
The work was originally comissioned by gnration as part of their órbita program that features transdisciplinary works between music, art and technology
youtube.com/watch?v=90hlSPMpLa8
The work was originally comissioned by gnration as part of their órbita program that features transdisciplinary works between music, art and technology
youtube.com/watch?v=90hlSPMpLa8
This is really the only energy keeping me going these days.
September 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is really the only energy keeping me going these days.
As a former Chicago resident, this makes me so happy.
I love these Hello ICE posters from Chicago - we need a Boston version.
September 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
As a former Chicago resident, this makes me so happy.
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the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked
September 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked
Parabéns ao novo diretor da FBAUP
@carvalhais.org
Congratulations to the new dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto
@carvalhais.org
Congratulations to the new dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto
September 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Parabéns ao novo diretor da FBAUP
@carvalhais.org
Congratulations to the new dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto
@carvalhais.org
Congratulations to the new dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto
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Society really lost it's shit when we moved away from containing the internet to one room in the house.
July 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Society really lost it's shit when we moved away from containing the internet to one room in the house.
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Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
August 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️