Tag: Visions

In 2019, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair returned to the Geffen Contemporary building at MOCA in downtown Los Angeles. Together with Anteism Books, AMI organized an exhibition focusing on works made from 2015 to 2018 to trace the emergent practices of artists creating with machine intelligen...

In the quiet town of Ashbrook, known for its eerie calmness and the scent of pine in the air, there lived a painter named Marcus. He was no Van Gogh or Picasso, but he had a unique touch. The town was his muse, its winding roads and ancient houses weaving into his creations. However, as he looked fo...

Utopian schemes invented by technology enthusiasts are as old as the industrial revolution. During the summer of 1832, a band of idealistic young men and women retreated to a country estate in Menilmontant on a hill overlooking Paris. Here, they made their communal living arrangement a public specta...

Computer vision enables autonomous vehicles to “see” and understand their surroundings, just as humans rely on their eyes to interpret the world. A myriad of sensors, including cameras, LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), radar, and ultrasonic sensors, work in tandem to create a compreh...

Proto-Semitic Roots The word “sapir” (שָׁפִיר) in Biblical Hebrew is the progenitor of the term “sapphire”. Its Proto-Semitic root is špr, meaning “to be beautiful, to shine”. This root is found in various Semitic languages, such as Arabic (&...

An alarm is ringing. The following unfolds very quickly: flames, screams, my dog yelping and pawing at my waist, overwhelming heat and darkness, thuds of furniture collapsing, I am engulfed by a whirlwind of chaos, my throat closes, my lungs squeeze and… nothing. I wake up. But I’m not ...