About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
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Here’s the windup, and here’s the pitch
You can see everyone’s AI pitches here: https://ds106.ai/category/aipitch/. I recommend looking them over because you may find a tool you can use in the upcoming weeks. I noticed some people didn’t link to the tools they promoted, which is surprising … Continue reading
“I’d Like To Help You With Your Problem”
I spotted this the other day and noted all the generated imagery, like AI meets CGI or something. It occurred to me that the title is a bit of a sales pitch. We have a variety of AI pitches this … Continue reading
Life imitating AI imitating Art
A few weeks ago we watched the Black Mirror episode, “Be Right Back“, in which a widow has an AI chatbot of her deceased husband. Yesterday I heard that performance artist Laurie Anderson actually has one of these. I guess … Continue reading
AI and Crazy Horse: Everybody Knows …
This week in ds106 we revisited our goals for the course. Everybody feels they are on track, and a few people added some revisions. I expected more changes and redirection due to the somewhat chaotic nature of how we do … Continue reading
This is your brain on the radio
We had a bunch of interesting radio show ideas this past week, including: talk show news show day in a life work together to take over the city work together to defeat Dr. Oblivion AI pros & cons AI propaganda … Continue reading
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So, what did we learn?
In working through the Middlebury assignment and visual and design assignment from the Assignment Bank, a few lessons and a few questions become apparent. We found pros and cons to AI image generators. Can we call what AI produces design? … Continue reading
Week 2: That’s a rap
I was curious to see how people would respond to The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. It seems most people didn’t hate it as much as I did. To each his own dystopia, as they say. Still, my hope is that we can … Continue reading
Week 1 wrap-up: Salutations!
phb256a · Oblivion Encouragement1 We made it through the first week of ds106, with struggles and triumphs. I thought I might try to put together a few quick thoughts. I was happy with the variety of films people chose to … Continue reading
A new thing: This Week in ds106
We will be doing a more-or-less weekly best of ds106, This Week in ds106, this semester. We’ve done something like this in the past, but now I’m trying out some new things. I’m using the PressForward WordPress plugin to manage … Continue reading