max bonhomme
@maxbonhomme.bsky.social
teaching design history and visual culture at the University of Strasbourg
Writes on photomontage, graphic design history, AI-generated images, popular print culture, etc.
Part of the team at https://transbordeur.ch/
Writes on photomontage, graphic design history, AI-generated images, popular print culture, etc.
Part of the team at https://transbordeur.ch/
It's out !! The history of political photomontage throughout the 20th century and from an international perspective. The exhibition is also coming soon : opening on the 19th of November at La Contemporaine (Nanterre, France)
anamosa.fr/livre/couper...
anamosa.fr/livre/couper...
Couper, coller, imprimer - ANAMOSA
Très richement illustré, ce livre propose un panorama international de l'histoire du photomontage, sur l'ensemble du XXe siècle, en articulant histoire politique et histoire des formes graphiques.
anamosa.fr
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
It's out !! The history of political photomontage throughout the 20th century and from an international perspective. The exhibition is also coming soon : opening on the 19th of November at La Contemporaine (Nanterre, France)
anamosa.fr/livre/couper...
anamosa.fr/livre/couper...
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Royaume-Uni : South Western Railway devient la première compagnie ferroviaire renationalisée
Royaume-Uni : South Western Railway devient la première compagnie ferroviaire renationalisée
L’opérateur britannique est repassé dimanche sous contrôle public. « Nous allons dire adieu à trente ans d’inefficacité, de gaspillage et de frustration des passagers », a déclaré la ministre des transports, Heidi Alexande.
www.lemonde.fr
May 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Royaume-Uni : South Western Railway devient la première compagnie ferroviaire renationalisée
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If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
May 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
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I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.
Friday Night Massacre of accurate information.
A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.
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This essay is a summary of the ideas about #PlatformRealism that I've been developing on this platform over the past few years. Reading it now, many months after I wrote it, feels a little strange: I think most of the ideas are valid, but it is only now that their implications have become clear
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Finally online: My essay on #PlatformRealism for #Transbordeur. There couldn't be a more appropriate day to publish it, even though when I wrote it last year I couldn't have imagined the extent to which the aesthetics of AI slop would become the basis of a new #MemeFascism
“Platform Realism”. AI Image Synthesis and the Rise of Generic Visu...
In May 2023, artist Bjoern Karmann introduced a gadget called Paragraphica, a lensless “camera” based on AI text-to-image synthesis (fig. 1). For Karmann, Paragraphica gives us a glimpse into how g...
journals.openedition.org
February 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This essay is a summary of the ideas about #PlatformRealism that I've been developing on this platform over the past few years. Reading it now, many months after I wrote it, feels a little strange: I think most of the ideas are valid, but it is only now that their implications have become clear
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There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming
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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming
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le 25 février février à Strasbourg (et en visio) : discussion avec Guillaume Blanc-Marianne autour des utopies de la "civilisation de l'image", la politique d'Albert Plécy et les murs d'images dans les années 1960-1970 : www.culturesvisuelles.org/debats-image...
February 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
le 25 février février à Strasbourg (et en visio) : discussion avec Guillaume Blanc-Marianne autour des utopies de la "civilisation de l'image", la politique d'Albert Plécy et les murs d'images dans les années 1960-1970 : www.culturesvisuelles.org/debats-image...
jeudepaume.org/evenement/re...
RDV le mardi 4 mars au Jeu de Paume (Paris), pour la sortie du numéro 9 de Transbordeur que j'ai co-dirigé avec Estelle Blaschke, Christian Joschke et Antonio Somaini : "Photographies et algorithmes"
Discussion avec Nicolas Malevé et Thierry Sugitani
RDV le mardi 4 mars au Jeu de Paume (Paris), pour la sortie du numéro 9 de Transbordeur que j'ai co-dirigé avec Estelle Blaschke, Christian Joschke et Antonio Somaini : "Photographies et algorithmes"
Discussion avec Nicolas Malevé et Thierry Sugitani
February 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
jeudepaume.org/evenement/re...
RDV le mardi 4 mars au Jeu de Paume (Paris), pour la sortie du numéro 9 de Transbordeur que j'ai co-dirigé avec Estelle Blaschke, Christian Joschke et Antonio Somaini : "Photographies et algorithmes"
Discussion avec Nicolas Malevé et Thierry Sugitani
RDV le mardi 4 mars au Jeu de Paume (Paris), pour la sortie du numéro 9 de Transbordeur que j'ai co-dirigé avec Estelle Blaschke, Christian Joschke et Antonio Somaini : "Photographies et algorithmes"
Discussion avec Nicolas Malevé et Thierry Sugitani
à tous les modérés qui nient le sens du geste de Musk : allez-y, répétez le, refaites le geste si vous pensez que ce n'est pas un salut fasciste
les fachos ne s'y trompent pas
lundi.am/Dark-Gothic-...
les fachos ne s'y trompent pas
lundi.am/Dark-Gothic-...
Dark Gothic MAGA : Elon Musk, la néoréaction et l’esthétique du cyberfascisme - Norman Ajari
Norman Ajari
lundi.am
January 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
à tous les modérés qui nient le sens du geste de Musk : allez-y, répétez le, refaites le geste si vous pensez que ce n'est pas un salut fasciste
les fachos ne s'y trompent pas
lundi.am/Dark-Gothic-...
les fachos ne s'y trompent pas
lundi.am/Dark-Gothic-...
CHEH
"DeepSeek a déclaré n’avoir dépensé que 5,6 millions de dollars pour développer son modèle, une somme dérisoire comparée aux milliards investis par les géants américains."
www.liberation.fr/economie/eco...
"DeepSeek a déclaré n’avoir dépensé que 5,6 millions de dollars pour développer son modèle, une somme dérisoire comparée aux milliards investis par les géants américains."
www.liberation.fr/economie/eco...
Face à la percée de l’IA chinoise DeepSeek, la tech américaine et Wall Street dévissent
La Bourse de New York est en forte baisse ce lundi, sous le coup de l’essor d’un nouveau robot conversationnel - «chatbot» - chinois. Ce dernier pourrait concurrencer les performances de ChatGPT tout ...
www.liberation.fr
January 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
CHEH
"DeepSeek a déclaré n’avoir dépensé que 5,6 millions de dollars pour développer son modèle, une somme dérisoire comparée aux milliards investis par les géants américains."
www.liberation.fr/economie/eco...
"DeepSeek a déclaré n’avoir dépensé que 5,6 millions de dollars pour développer son modèle, une somme dérisoire comparée aux milliards investis par les géants américains."
www.liberation.fr/economie/eco...
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Blaming AI was just a way to hype it #technodeterminism ‘“It's all about social signaling…It's not AI. … ” says Bruce Schneier, … “It's not like we had perfect elections throughout our history and now suddenly there’s AI and it's all misinformation.”
www.wired.com/story/the-ye... #philtech
www.wired.com/story/the-ye... #philtech
The Year of the AI Election Wasn’t Quite What Everyone Expected
Deepfakes were nothing like the political force in 2024 that many feared—but that doesn’t mean that generative AI didn’t profoundly affect elections all over the world.
www.wired.com
December 26, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Blaming AI was just a way to hype it #technodeterminism ‘“It's all about social signaling…It's not AI. … ” says Bruce Schneier, … “It's not like we had perfect elections throughout our history and now suddenly there’s AI and it's all misinformation.”
www.wired.com/story/the-ye... #philtech
www.wired.com/story/the-ye... #philtech
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here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics
December 11, 2024 at 5:35 PM
here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics
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«On Tuesday, a group of artists seems to have temporarily leaked access to Sora ... via Hugging Face, a popular development platform. They did this in protest of what they call ›art washing‹ and accuse OpenAI of exploiting them as PR puppets.»
OpenAI exploiting the work of artists? Quelle surprise!
OpenAI exploiting the work of artists? Quelle surprise!
Artwashing
Artists leak OpenAI's video model Sora.
jurgengravestein.substack.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:19 AM
«On Tuesday, a group of artists seems to have temporarily leaked access to Sora ... via Hugging Face, a popular development platform. They did this in protest of what they call ›art washing‹ and accuse OpenAI of exploiting them as PR puppets.»
OpenAI exploiting the work of artists? Quelle surprise!
OpenAI exploiting the work of artists? Quelle surprise!
For those who are in or around Strasbourg feel free to join us for the seminar "Opérations graphiques" as part of our program on visual culture, design and media studies
This evening we have a talk by Clara Mancini on Animal-Computer Interaction
www.culturesvisuelles.org/champs-de-re...
This evening we have a talk by Clara Mancini on Animal-Computer Interaction
www.culturesvisuelles.org/champs-de-re...
Opérations graphiques | Cultures visuelles
www.culturesvisuelles.org
November 21, 2024 at 9:02 AM
For those who are in or around Strasbourg feel free to join us for the seminar "Opérations graphiques" as part of our program on visual culture, design and media studies
This evening we have a talk by Clara Mancini on Animal-Computer Interaction
www.culturesvisuelles.org/champs-de-re...
This evening we have a talk by Clara Mancini on Animal-Computer Interaction
www.culturesvisuelles.org/champs-de-re...
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It's growing, but I am sure there are still many great media scholars and artists out there I've missed, so please let me know whom I should include. And thanks to all who already contributed with their suggestions! go.bsky.app/LmudiJF
November 17, 2024 at 9:23 AM
It's growing, but I am sure there are still many great media scholars and artists out there I've missed, so please let me know whom I should include. And thanks to all who already contributed with their suggestions! go.bsky.app/LmudiJF
Le jeudi 12 décembre on accueille Guillaume Blanc-Marianne à l'université de Strasbourg dans le cadre du programme Cultures Visuelles et des débats-images ; pour une discussion autour de l'idéologie des "cathédrales d'images" d'Albert Plécy
toutes les info :
www.culturesvisuelles.org/debats-image...
toutes les info :
www.culturesvisuelles.org/debats-image...
#13 / Guillaume Blanc-Marianne | Cultures visuelles
www.culturesvisuelles.org
November 9, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Le jeudi 12 décembre on accueille Guillaume Blanc-Marianne à l'université de Strasbourg dans le cadre du programme Cultures Visuelles et des débats-images ; pour une discussion autour de l'idéologie des "cathédrales d'images" d'Albert Plécy
toutes les info :
www.culturesvisuelles.org/debats-image...
toutes les info :
www.culturesvisuelles.org/debats-image...
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Book about lakes, by a man called (rough equivalent of) Geeseman
September 30, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Book about lakes, by a man called (rough equivalent of) Geeseman
this evening at the Centre Pompidou : Peter Szendy and Antonio Somaini on the image economy and digital capitalism. A talk organised as part of the exhibition "Image Capital" curated by Estelle Blaschke and Armin Linke, on view in Paris until February 26
be there 🫵
be there 🫵
February 16, 2024 at 1:20 PM
this evening at the Centre Pompidou : Peter Szendy and Antonio Somaini on the image economy and digital capitalism. A talk organised as part of the exhibition "Image Capital" curated by Estelle Blaschke and Armin Linke, on view in Paris until February 26
be there 🫵
be there 🫵