‘Copy Machine Manifestos’: five artists on their zine practices
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‘Copy Machine Manifestos’: five artists on their zine practices
"Artifacts of humanity" in creative work — in the form of dust, mistakes, and deliberate strokes that flex human engagement — will showcase the human labor spent making a creation. Such artifacts of humanity, alongside Content Credentials that factually articulate how a piece of work was made, will add meaning and scarcity to the work in the eyes o... See more
Scott Belsky • The Law of Displacement Speed & Leveraging Artifacts of Humanity
This isn’t to say the digital won’t remain, or even that it won’t remain the primary medium. Rather, I think there are going to be more efforts to make the digital experience more human, to shift our relationships with it. Some say AI threatens this, I say it only reinforces it: nobody, really, likes AI, and our general distaste for it is going to ... See more
“The process of making art,” writes Rebecca Solnit, “is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity.”[2]
Cameron Russell • How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir
I evoke the term 'handmade web' to suggest slowness and smallness as forms of resistance. In today's highly commercialised web of multinational corporations, proprietary applications, read-only devices, search algorithms, Content Management Systems, WYSIWYG editors, and digital publishers it becomes an increasingly radical act to hand-code and self... See more