Claus Gunti
@clausgunti.bsky.social
Curator and art historian, interested in the interstice between digital worlds and "reality". Currently working on AI and emotions.
Working at ecal.ch & centrephotogeneve.ch
https://clausgunti.ch
Working at ecal.ch & centrephotogeneve.ch
https://clausgunti.ch
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Claus Gunti
@clausgunti.bsky.social
· Feb 28
Soft Photography
Soft Photography is a research project conducted by the Master of Photography at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne with the support of the HES-SO. It aims to shed light on the role of human e...
ecal.ch
First images of our new research project "Soft photography" at écal, addressing emotions and synthetic images are online. An early conclusion seems to be the incredible complexity/ multi-layered nature of emotional responses to generative AI and CGI images on social media. ecal.ch/en/feed/proj...
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Le Centre de la photographie Genève inaugure une série d’essais sur la photographie, dont le deuxième volume s’intéresse aux formes d’exposition du médium.
Par Zoé Isle de Beauchaine.
Par Zoé Isle de Beauchaine.
Exposer la photographie aujourd'hui
Le Centre de la photographie Genève inaugure une série d’essais sur la photographie, dont le deuxième volume s’intéresse aux formes d’exposition du médium.
www.artnewspaper.fr
June 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Le Centre de la photographie Genève inaugure une série d’essais sur la photographie, dont le deuxième volume s’intéresse aux formes d’exposition du médium.
Par Zoé Isle de Beauchaine.
Par Zoé Isle de Beauchaine.
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Steyerl challenges us to recognise the vast scale of AI’s ubiquity and also to realise its ‘artificial stupidity’ artreview.com/hito-steyerl...
Hito Steyerl’s ‘Medium Hot’: The Age of Slop
Steyerl challenges us to recognise the vast scale of AI’s ubiquity and also to realise its ‘artificial stupidity’
artreview.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Steyerl challenges us to recognise the vast scale of AI’s ubiquity and also to realise its ‘artificial stupidity’ artreview.com/hito-steyerl...
Hmm, there seems to be an army of bots with my name on X 🤔
May 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hmm, there seems to be an army of bots with my name on X 🤔
Imagenet really seems to think that I am a (very) bad guy… If in Paris, do check out the Jeu de Paume fantastic AI exhibition.
April 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Imagenet really seems to think that I am a (very) bad guy… If in Paris, do check out the Jeu de Paume fantastic AI exhibition.
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Seine Pool-Bilder machten David Hockney berühmt, seine Lebenslust macht ihn unsterblich – selbst 70 Jahre passioniertes Rauchen können ihm wenig anhaben. Jetzt lädt die Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris den 87-Jährigen ein, ihr gesamtes Haus zu bespielen. Wir stellen Höhepunkte seiner Laufbahn vor
David Hockney in Paris: Liebe das Leben
Seine Pool-Bilder machten David Hockney berühmt, seine Lebenslust macht ihn unsterblich. Jetzt lädt die Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris den 87-Jährigen ein, ihr gesamtes Haus zu bespielen. Wir stelle...
www.monopol-magazin.de
April 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Seine Pool-Bilder machten David Hockney berühmt, seine Lebenslust macht ihn unsterblich – selbst 70 Jahre passioniertes Rauchen können ihm wenig anhaben. Jetzt lädt die Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris den 87-Jährigen ein, ihr gesamtes Haus zu bespielen. Wir stellen Höhepunkte seiner Laufbahn vor
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“This essay traces the transatlantic trade in mercury and silver through its replacement by nineteenth-century transpacific and intra-American networks, underscoring the imperial relationships and labor histories that underlie photography’s mineral dependencies.”
Mercury is a Messenger : Photography’s Dependence on Quicksilver and Mining Labor | American Art: Vol 39, No 1
Mercury was necessary to early photography, from developing the daguerreotype plate with its fumes to the extraction of silver through a process of amalgamation. But these minerals were acquired at gr...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
April 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
“This essay traces the transatlantic trade in mercury and silver through its replacement by nineteenth-century transpacific and intra-American networks, underscoring the imperial relationships and labor histories that underlie photography’s mineral dependencies.”
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Another "AI" company faces fraud charges, as Filipino workers powered its app. #DiPLab has been documenting cases like this since 2027. Not just small startups cutting corners: Google, Amazon have been caught doing it. Not just a few rotten apples, either. This 💩 is systematic.
Fintech founder charged with fraud after ‘AI’ shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines
Fintech founder charged with fraud after ‘AI’ shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines
Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience, was charged with defrauding investors on Wednesday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Founded in 2018, Nate raised over $50 million from investors like Coatue and Forerunner Ventures, most recently raising […]
tcrn.ch
April 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Another "AI" company faces fraud charges, as Filipino workers powered its app. #DiPLab has been documenting cases like this since 2027. Not just small startups cutting corners: Google, Amazon have been caught doing it. Not just a few rotten apples, either. This 💩 is systematic.
April 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Terrifying on so many levels...
April 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Terrifying on so many levels...
Just reposting this fantastic article by Matthew Allen for the CCA on the visual proximity between 1980s architectural CGI renderings and cyberpunk anime (in FR or ENG): www.cca.qc.ca/fr/articles/...
March 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Just reposting this fantastic article by Matthew Allen for the CCA on the visual proximity between 1980s architectural CGI renderings and cyberpunk anime (in FR or ENG): www.cca.qc.ca/fr/articles/...
Si vous êtes à Lausanne samedi 29 mars, rejoignez-nous pour la lancement de la collection Superscripte, avec les autrices et les graphistes du projet, à 10h00 à MSBWB.ch 🥐☕️ 📗 Infos sur >https://www.centrephotogeneve.ch/event/booklaunch-superscripte-2/
March 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Si vous êtes à Lausanne samedi 29 mars, rejoignez-nous pour la lancement de la collection Superscripte, avec les autrices et les graphistes du projet, à 10h00 à MSBWB.ch 🥐☕️ 📗 Infos sur >https://www.centrephotogeneve.ch/event/booklaunch-superscripte-2/
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Call for Papers: Liken – Tiktoken – Prompten: Medienpraktiken im Diskurs. Individuelle und kollektive Handlungsmuster der (Post-)Digitalität #cfp #soziologie
Liken – Tiktoken – Prompten: Medienpraktiken im Diskurs. Individuelle und kollektive Handlungsmuster der (Post-)Digitalität
Sammelband herausgegeben von Christian Leineweber (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg) und Claudia de Witt (FernUniversität in Hagen)
soziologie.de
March 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Call for Papers: Liken – Tiktoken – Prompten: Medienpraktiken im Diskurs. Individuelle und kollektive Handlungsmuster der (Post-)Digitalität #cfp #soziologie
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Today we have a #screenwalk with Leon-Etienne Kühr and Ting-Chun Liu (who shared this image on their presentation on the last CCC) doing a live-coding spiral/recursive/feedbackloop experiment with GenAI models.
You can join us at 7pm CET on screenwalks.com
You can join us at 7pm CET on screenwalks.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Today we have a #screenwalk with Leon-Etienne Kühr and Ting-Chun Liu (who shared this image on their presentation on the last CCC) doing a live-coding spiral/recursive/feedbackloop experiment with GenAI models.
You can join us at 7pm CET on screenwalks.com
You can join us at 7pm CET on screenwalks.com
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I found mine and @friendsofbear.bsky.social ‘s 2025 Kitten Name List.
March 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I found mine and @friendsofbear.bsky.social ‘s 2025 Kitten Name List.
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Marisa Merz war Autodidaktin und wurde im Kreise der männlichen Arte-Povera-Helden lange übersehen. In Bern wird sie nun endlich als eigenständige Stimme hörbar
Marisa Merz in Bern: Eine Künstlerin mit feinen Antennen
Marisa Merz war Autodidaktin und wurde im Kreise der männlichen Arte-Povera-Helden lange übersehen. In Bern wird sie nun endlich als eigenständige Stimme hörbar
www.monopol-magazin.de
March 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Marisa Merz war Autodidaktin und wurde im Kreise der männlichen Arte-Povera-Helden lange übersehen. In Bern wird sie nun endlich als eigenständige Stimme hörbar
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The whole series looks amazing - delighted to be in such great company! All talks are online and open to all, but you must register: www.eventbrite.com/cc/towards-a...
March 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The whole series looks amazing - delighted to be in such great company! All talks are online and open to all, but you must register: www.eventbrite.com/cc/towards-a...
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🇮🇹 TORINO! 🇮🇹
The largest ever display of my Virtual Cyanotype Botany series will take place at OGR Torino as part of Exposed photography festival 2025.
Almost Real. From Trace to Simulation:
Alan Butler, Nora Al-Badri, Lawrence Lek.
16 Apr-2 June.
ogrtorino.it/events/expos...
The largest ever display of my Virtual Cyanotype Botany series will take place at OGR Torino as part of Exposed photography festival 2025.
Almost Real. From Trace to Simulation:
Alan Butler, Nora Al-Badri, Lawrence Lek.
16 Apr-2 June.
ogrtorino.it/events/expos...
EXPOSED 2025
EXPOSED 2025 Almost Real. From Trace to Simulation Una mostra co-prodotta da Exposed e OGR Torino a cura di Samuele...
ogrtorino.it
March 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🇮🇹 TORINO! 🇮🇹
The largest ever display of my Virtual Cyanotype Botany series will take place at OGR Torino as part of Exposed photography festival 2025.
Almost Real. From Trace to Simulation:
Alan Butler, Nora Al-Badri, Lawrence Lek.
16 Apr-2 June.
ogrtorino.it/events/expos...
The largest ever display of my Virtual Cyanotype Botany series will take place at OGR Torino as part of Exposed photography festival 2025.
Almost Real. From Trace to Simulation:
Alan Butler, Nora Al-Badri, Lawrence Lek.
16 Apr-2 June.
ogrtorino.it/events/expos...
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Starting in two months from now, the American Academy in Rome pays tribute to six women who played a key role in applying photography to archaeology.
Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape
AAR presents Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape, the first exhibition dedicated to the influence of a group of trailblazing women who helped record archaeology and landscapes fro...
aarome.org
March 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Starting in two months from now, the American Academy in Rome pays tribute to six women who played a key role in applying photography to archaeology.
I wonder what our inability to envision new (fictional) futures since the 80s tells us about our ability to cope with the present...
We are living through the nightmares of the 80s
March 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I wonder what our inability to envision new (fictional) futures since the 80s tells us about our ability to cope with the present...
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UbuWeb, a pirate library of avant-garde artifacts, closed in 2024. But last month, they started the site back up again. “Archiving reemerges as a strong form of resistance, a way of preserving crucial, subversive, and marginalized forms of expression.” [ubu.com]
March 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
UbuWeb, a pirate library of avant-garde artifacts, closed in 2024. But last month, they started the site back up again. “Archiving reemerges as a strong form of resistance, a way of preserving crucial, subversive, and marginalized forms of expression.” [ubu.com]
Quite problematic indeed. Nice to be pirated alongside my (deceased) dad, though 🙂.
March 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Quite problematic indeed. Nice to be pirated alongside my (deceased) dad, though 🙂.
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Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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"California legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track & disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training...it’s an impossible standard that could crush small AI startups & developers...."
Trash take.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Trash take.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly
California legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track and disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training. At first glance, this might s...
www.eff.org
March 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"California legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track & disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training...it’s an impossible standard that could crush small AI startups & developers...."
Trash take.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Trash take.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping:
www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...
www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...
AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.
www.404media.co
March 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping:
www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...
www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...
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Mein kleiner Text über die grossangelegten Datenbanksäuberungen und Bildzensurkampagnen in den USA sow die veränderte Rolle von digitalen Bildarchiven angesichts generativer KI ist jetzt auch online frei verfügbar www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Wo US-Behörden Archivbilder von Minderheiten löschen
Wenn US-Behörden damit beginnen, historische Fotos von Frauen, Schwarzen und Schwulen aus dem Netz zu löschen, kommt es jetzt auf Datensicherung an. Gegenarchive müssen aufgebaut werden!
www.faz.net
March 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Mein kleiner Text über die grossangelegten Datenbanksäuberungen und Bildzensurkampagnen in den USA sow die veränderte Rolle von digitalen Bildarchiven angesichts generativer KI ist jetzt auch online frei verfügbar www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...