Somewhere in the writings of Buddhist nun Pema Chodron (), there is a passage in which she remarks that self-knowledge can arrive like looking in a mirror and finding a gorilla staring back at you. You feel horrible, just the…
Difficult images are a particular preoccupation of mine. Following Susan Sontag’s framework, I use “difficult” to mean images that are emotionally or morally demanding to look at — images that resist passive consumption and implicate the viewer, the maker, and…
Recently, I was traveling through the upper Midwest (Nebraska, South Dakota) and had the opportunity to meet up with a long-time friend and not-often-enough collaborator, Éireann Lorsung. While we were catching up, the sticky subject of AI-generated imagery came up.…
I’ve always been interested in visibility, what it means to be visible and what new technologies aid/impede being visible. The latest technology to draw my attention is Grindr’s new “Right Now” feature. “Right Now” is a dedicated feed within the…