The next Projections event will take you for a ride on New York City’s subways, courtesy of photographer Frances Jakubek. Her black-and-white images "allow us to become involved with the people she’s photographing as she documents the comings and goings of her surroundings,” notes Projections organizer Frank Meo. When: Feb. 14. When: 7:00 pm EST. Where: via Zoom. Read the full Story >>
"[T]he breathtaking arrival of artificial intelligence into visual culture has been greeted by a frantic chorus of disapproval, shrill moral indignation, litigation and complaint," notes artist and educator Stephen Frailey in the new edition of Dear Dave magazine, the thoughtful and often surprising art journal he also publishes. The new issue, Dear Dave 34, is a deep dive into the art and anxiety generated … Read the full Story >>
Back in the days before digital cameras, you had to wait a few days to get your film back from a lab. Now everyone is talking about a camera that will take considerably longer to deliver a photo. An experimental philosopher from the University of Arizona has set up what he's calling the Millennium Camera: a device designed to take a single image of the Tucson, Arizona landscape over the course of a thousand years. Creator Jonathon Keats says he wants the camera to provoke deeper thought about the past, present, and future of humanity, notes Science Alert. Read the full Story >>
Mike Balog has called his memento-filled one-bedroom rent-stabilized apartment in Hollywood home for nearly 30 years, notes writer Ethan Ward at Capital and Main. For most of the 69-year-old man’s adult life, it has been his base where he has socialized, loved, ailed, healed and, with the recent death of his mother, mourned. But now the property’s owners want him to move out-- another story in Los Angeles’s housing crisis. Photographer Barbara Davidson documents his struggle. Read the full Story >>
