The rise of synthetic media, specifically deepfake technology, has led to a growing concern among scholars and thought leaders about the potential for these technologies to contribute to the further erosion of privacy and autonomy in our culture. Deepfake technology allows for the creation of highly realistic and convincing digital images and videos that can …
Virtual reality (VR) technology has been around for decades, but it wasn’t until the 2010s that it began to gain mainstream attention. In 2012, Oculus VR, a company specializing in VR technology, was founded. They released their first VR headset, the Oculus Rift, in 2016. This was followed by other major players in the tech …
Web3 technology is revolutionizing the art industry, enabling new forms of creative expression and community building. As a media research team, we are particularly interested in exploring the ways in which this technology is impacting the art world. In this blog post, we will provide a brief overview of the history of web3 and its …
DALL-E 2 is a generative model developed by OpenAI that can generate images from textual descriptions. It uses state-of-the-art techniques such as transformer architecture, and has the ability to generate high-quality images with multiple objects and fine details. https://openai.com/dall-e/ Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is a powerful language model developed by OpenAI that can generate …
We’ve always had mediums of exchange. Some of them are physical and tangible (the most recent manifestation of which is good-old cash), some are digital and intangible (like the whole Crypto family, including NFT). Well… nowadays, mostly the second. China is busy testing digital yuan, Russia keeps pace testing its digital ruble, Visa/Master Card are …
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(Banner photo: Becoming Sky Woman, Machinimagraph from She Falls for Ages by Skawennati) I am Elizabeth Matheson. I was raised in several countries that have been influential in shaping my cultural practice and ways of working with communities. In Canada, I have learned how to incorporate this lived experience into my role as a cultural …
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My name is Candice Houtekier. I was born and raised in France and moved to Montreal to do my master’s degree. After I graduated I started to work for commercial art galleries between Montreal and Toronto for a couple of years. Then I moved to Toronto and decided to launch my own business to help …
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