In Focus: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Visual Forensics
On the evening of October 17, 2023, an explosion struck Gaza City's Al-Ahli Arab Hospital complex. Shaky videos, filmed by bystanders, captured footage of the grounds partially consumed by flames. What these videos couldn't reveal was who was responsible. Visual-investigation teams got to work analyzing footage of the explosion, but their findings often were contradictory. The episode exposed the limitations of visual investigations, noted the Columbia Journalism Review recently. In recent years, added the CJR, the visual forensic work has been complicated even further by the changing nature of war and AI.
The DART Board: 10.21.2026
When award-winning graphic novelist, illustrator, and long-time DART contributor Peter Kuper first spent time in Oaxaca, Mexico back in 2006, he fell hopelessly in love with the majestic monarch butterfly. During his first two-year stay, he regularly posted his richly illustrated Oaxaca Journal—which later became the acclaimed book, Diario de Oaxaca. It was almost inevitable that his fascination with our six-legged friends would eventually culminate in a si...
