Yvette Granata
@yvettegranata.bsky.social
Assistant prof @ Uni of Michigan. Media Art. VR Art. Cyberfeminist Machines. New Animation. Witch Anarchy. I never update my website.. www.yvettegranata.com
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This is undoubtably true but I will say one thing the tea party did that made for better (read: more salacious) news/drama was drag their elected Rs through the mud for the slightest compromise in a way the majority of the Dem base has yet to
The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.
Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
October 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This is undoubtably true but I will say one thing the tea party did that made for better (read: more salacious) news/drama was drag their elected Rs through the mud for the slightest compromise in a way the majority of the Dem base has yet to
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It’s time to declare the political and imaginative failure of the hype-shouting school of critical AI.
We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us
The problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It’s time to declare the political and imaginative failure of the hype-shouting school of critical AI.
Leonardo Journal's explanation of Art History vs. What they publish: Is the artist dead? --> then Art History. (Why did I never think of it this way??)
April 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Leonardo Journal's explanation of Art History vs. What they publish: Is the artist dead? --> then Art History. (Why did I never think of it this way??)
Almost every contemporary critique of technology and society that I read can be traced back to Haraway’s ideas but takes too long to say so or never does. I think we need to just call it Harawayism or ‘Harawayist critique’ as shorthand to move forward. Similar to how Marxist critique is used etc
April 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Almost every contemporary critique of technology and society that I read can be traced back to Haraway’s ideas but takes too long to say so or never does. I think we need to just call it Harawayism or ‘Harawayist critique’ as shorthand to move forward. Similar to how Marxist critique is used etc
The Ghibli AI filter brings up Moral rights - an artist’s personal and reputational connection to their work, distinct from copyright's economic rights. They include the right of attribution (to be recognized as the author) and the right of integrity (to prevent distortion or mutilation of the work)
March 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The Ghibli AI filter brings up Moral rights - an artist’s personal and reputational connection to their work, distinct from copyright's economic rights. They include the right of attribution (to be recognized as the author) and the right of integrity (to prevent distortion or mutilation of the work)
Umich shut down all of its DEI programs yesterday. And I can't stop thinking about how a couple of years ago when grad students were striking, the admin spent top dollar to lawyer up and fight grads at all costs and the president hired a security outfit to protect him from grads.
March 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Umich shut down all of its DEI programs yesterday. And I can't stop thinking about how a couple of years ago when grad students were striking, the admin spent top dollar to lawyer up and fight grads at all costs and the president hired a security outfit to protect him from grads.
I’m still trying to understand why so much money went into developing AI image generators. To replace the niche field of illustration? Bunch of companies sat down and said “you know what could make us a lot of money?? Automated illustration!”
March 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I’m still trying to understand why so much money went into developing AI image generators. To replace the niche field of illustration? Bunch of companies sat down and said “you know what could make us a lot of money?? Automated illustration!”
AI image generators make the same mistakes that Intro Drawing students make in the 1st art class. They think that it is a word, or a concept, that is to be drawn. Human students quickly learn words get in the way. AI is programmed so that words are always the route to the image.
March 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
AI image generators make the same mistakes that Intro Drawing students make in the 1st art class. They think that it is a word, or a concept, that is to be drawn. Human students quickly learn words get in the way. AI is programmed so that words are always the route to the image.
Things that happen in the Netherlands that would never happen in the US. Imagine ALL faculty at in a single state going on strike together, let alone across the whole country
We are going on strike against the unprecedented cuts in academic teaching and research because these cuts are not based on any reasonable motivation, but are the result of the resentment of the anti-intellectual far-right government taking revenge on the so-called elite.
Dutch universities will go on strike! Against the 1.3 billion cuts!
March 10: Leiden University
March 11: Utrecht University
March 13: University Nijmegen
March 17: University of Amsterdam
March 20: Maastricht University
March 27: VU Amsterdam
April 10: Tilburg University
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March 10: Leiden University
March 11: Utrecht University
March 13: University Nijmegen
March 17: University of Amsterdam
March 20: Maastricht University
March 27: VU Amsterdam
April 10: Tilburg University
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February 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Things that happen in the Netherlands that would never happen in the US. Imagine ALL faculty at in a single state going on strike together, let alone across the whole country
This past weekend I gave keynote lecture on Promiscuous Ontologies and Making VR Art in Times of Crisis at the SUNY Buffalo Media Study Grad conference held at Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art. The grad presentations were excellent!
www.thebica.org/events/world...
www.thebica.org/events/world...
Worldmaking at the World's End: A Graduate Confrence on Research Based Creative Practice — The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art
A Conference Hosted by the Graduate Students of the University at Buffalo’s Media Study Department With a Keynote Talk by Yvette Granata, PhD February 9th @ Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art Th...
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February 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This past weekend I gave keynote lecture on Promiscuous Ontologies and Making VR Art in Times of Crisis at the SUNY Buffalo Media Study Grad conference held at Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art. The grad presentations were excellent!
www.thebica.org/events/world...
www.thebica.org/events/world...
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THERE BETTER AT LEAST BE SOME VERY GOOD ART, LITERATURE AND CINEMA TO COME OUT OF THIS HORRIBLY MESSED UP MOMENT
February 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
THERE BETTER AT LEAST BE SOME VERY GOOD ART, LITERATURE AND CINEMA TO COME OUT OF THIS HORRIBLY MESSED UP MOMENT
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A reminder that I made a Chrome extension that removes the letters T, Q, and I from every .gov website, since Trump banned those letters from appearing in conjunction with LGB on U.S. government websites. github.com/samplerealit...
February 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A reminder that I made a Chrome extension that removes the letters T, Q, and I from every .gov website, since Trump banned those letters from appearing in conjunction with LGB on U.S. government websites. github.com/samplerealit...
The best thing on social media right now is the reddit thread by federal workers r/fednews www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...
From the fednews community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
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January 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The best thing on social media right now is the reddit thread by federal workers r/fednews www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...
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ARRG! (The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group) has a paper on critical artistic misuse of gen AI in the Critical AI journal (@criticalai-journal.bsky.social). Here's a pre-proofed copy of the paper, co-written with @carolinesinders.bsky.social and @supercomposite.bsky.social! #criticalAI
SNEAK PREVIEW: ERYK SALVAGGIO, CAROLINE SINDERS & STEPH MAJ SWANSON’S “CULTURAL RED TEAMING: ARRG! & CREATIVE MISUSE OF AI SYSTEMS”
[Below, a sneak preview from the upcoming issue Critical AI 3.1, Eryk Salvaggio, Caroline Sinders and Steph Maj Swanson‘s “Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! & Creative Misuse of AI Sys…
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January 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
ARRG! (The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group) has a paper on critical artistic misuse of gen AI in the Critical AI journal (@criticalai-journal.bsky.social). Here's a pre-proofed copy of the paper, co-written with @carolinesinders.bsky.social and @supercomposite.bsky.social! #criticalAI
Another way that Musk is definitely a fascist is his leadership of the secular anti-abortion pronatalist movement, which is basically a recreation of Mussolini's Battle for Births program. Secular pronatalism as nation building rather than as religious dogma is a hallmark of fascism
January 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Another way that Musk is definitely a fascist is his leadership of the secular anti-abortion pronatalist movement, which is basically a recreation of Mussolini's Battle for Births program. Secular pronatalism as nation building rather than as religious dogma is a hallmark of fascism
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Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states:
“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."
Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.
“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."
Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.
January 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states:
“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."
Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.
“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."
Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.
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that moment when gender is definitely an unchangable biological truth so you have to enforce it via fascistic law
January 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
that moment when gender is definitely an unchangable biological truth so you have to enforce it via fascistic law
Just got to LA. Was talking to the taxi driver about how horrible the fires are and how so many people I know have been affected, how I hope everyone is ok. Then later he asked where I'm coming from and when I said Detroit, he said "Detroit has had some fires too no?" It stunned me.
January 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Just got to LA. Was talking to the taxi driver about how horrible the fires are and how so many people I know have been affected, how I hope everyone is ok. Then later he asked where I'm coming from and when I said Detroit, he said "Detroit has had some fires too no?" It stunned me.
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Reminder: Submissions for issue 2 of 2025 can be made until 15 February 2025. #art #technoetic #artscience
Technoetic Arts welcomes contributions between 5,000–7,500 words that focus upon the juncture between art, technology and the mind. Submissions for issue 2 of 2025 can be made until 15 February 2025. #art #technoetic #artscience
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2025 : Call for Articles
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January 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Reminder: Submissions for issue 2 of 2025 can be made until 15 February 2025. #art #technoetic #artscience
Opening this Saturday at Ctrl Gallery (new space by Young Projects Gallery) Excited to be included in this amazeballs list of artists!
"Interiors explores the address of female form via different visual approaches, from the cinematic to self-portraiture, from the scientific to the abstract"
"Interiors explores the address of female form via different visual approaches, from the cinematic to self-portraiture, from the scientific to the abstract"
January 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Opening this Saturday at Ctrl Gallery (new space by Young Projects Gallery) Excited to be included in this amazeballs list of artists!
"Interiors explores the address of female form via different visual approaches, from the cinematic to self-portraiture, from the scientific to the abstract"
"Interiors explores the address of female form via different visual approaches, from the cinematic to self-portraiture, from the scientific to the abstract"
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Isn't Meta facing a massive FTC lawsuit? Bet that goes away.
January 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Isn't Meta facing a massive FTC lawsuit? Bet that goes away.
Pre-ordering this. I’m fascinated by everything Jaleh Mansoor says.. www.dukeupress.edu/universal-pr...
Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction
www.dukeupress.edu
January 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Pre-ordering this. I’m fascinated by everything Jaleh Mansoor says.. www.dukeupress.edu/universal-pr...
AI developer working on new image tool asks me what would be useful for artists & my first reaction was: Ohhh maybe an AI tool that redistributes wealth from billionaires. Then it 100% focuses on reducing carbon footprint of every industry. Also make it remove all of the plastic from the ocean.
December 22, 2024 at 7:44 PM
AI developer working on new image tool asks me what would be useful for artists & my first reaction was: Ohhh maybe an AI tool that redistributes wealth from billionaires. Then it 100% focuses on reducing carbon footprint of every industry. Also make it remove all of the plastic from the ocean.
Moving forward, I'm no longer using the phrase 'political elites' or 'corporate elites' but instead just 'oligarchs'. It's clearer that way. 'Elite' is too muddy a word.
December 22, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Moving forward, I'm no longer using the phrase 'political elites' or 'corporate elites' but instead just 'oligarchs'. It's clearer that way. 'Elite' is too muddy a word.