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Credit 2025 has come to its end and TAEX is wrapping this year with our bi-weekly news digest. So let’s look at the ...
01/01/2026


Credit 2025 has come to its end and TAEX is wrapping this year with our bi-weekly news digest. So let’s look at the main events from the realms of digital and AI-art.

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Credit Happy to announce that our new publication Slow Technology Reader: A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures will ...
28/12/2025


Credit Happy to announce that our new publication Slow Technology Reader: A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures will be out next month, published by

The book is both scholarly and speculative, probing alternative potentialities of the digital entities proliferating in our midst, examining tools and techniques that have endured the test of time, and looking to non-Western and other-than-human sources to inspire technological futures. In these ways,it aims to enlarge the parameters of how is understood, challenging the limited perspectives and legacy structures that continue to dominate technological development today. Running through it all, of course, is : investigating diverse dimensions of time, deep practices of attention, and more horizontal and inclusive infrastructures of living. At a time when technology reaches into nearly every facet of planetary existence, this book hopes to disrupt and recalibrate our sense of what it is and can be, illuminating ‘Slower’ pathways forward.

This post offers a glimpse into the book’s contents. With much more info to follow!
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🔗 Pre-order on the Valiz website via link in bio.

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Credit This book totally blew my mind! Using Liu Cixun’s idea of the dark forest, Bogna Konior asks if we might unde...
27/12/2025


Credit This book totally blew my mind! Using Liu Cixun’s idea of the dark forest, Bogna Konior asks if we might understand the silence of the cosmos not as evidence that there is nothing out there but as evidence that there is; if we understand silence as proof of intelligence, then the silence of the rest of the cosmos could be a deliberate choice to remain hidden. She uses this idea to think through the internet, and how it compels us to be anything but silent; it pulls and tugs at us so we say more, producing not only endless noise but a huge array of material for AI to listen to and train on. She writes: ‘Our physical and virtual spaces, increasingly inseparable, are alike a dark forest, where every step must be taken with care, as revealing one’s existence portends annihilation.’

What I found most interesting is her response to this dilemma; she says what we tend to do now is withdraw from online spaces, calling for smaller and smaller communities. Instead she suggests that we continue engaging the internet, but rather than do so in a way that represents us, we use secrecy and occlusion to create a mass of information that is confusing and incoherent. We are so used to using the internet to share the most accurate representations of ourselves - ‘compulsion to share an accurate, up-to-date representation of our thoughts online has become such a fundamental axiom of internet behavior that we rarely question it.’

But legibility means ‘exposing our coordinates.’ Can we instead practice deception? How can we occlude and deceive while in full visibility? How can silence be practiced without total disconnection?

‘Next time you log on, remember that the real audiences are the artificial intelligences listening in, and the cosmic war machine that moves communication around.’

Credit Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics — introduced in his 1942 short story “Runaround” — imagined a simple et...
19/12/2025


Credit Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics — introduced in his 1942 short story “Runaround” — imagined a simple ethical framework for artificial intelligence. As one law states, “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”

However, in today’s age of AI, applying such absolute edicts is anything but simple. Culture is relative, and moral dilemmas abound, argues De Kai, a computer scientist and AI luminary.

Instead of focusing on code, he writes in an excerpt from his new book, “Raising AI,” we must focus on culture: “It’s not the AI overlords destroying humanity that we need to worry about so much as a hyperpolarized, hyperweaponized humanity destroying humanity.”

Read De Kai’s full article at the link in our bio.

Credit 🎬 Now available to watch online 🎬✨ Picturing Digital Infrastructures with Professor Anna Näslund ✨ The final ...
19/12/2025


Credit 🎬 Now available to watch online 🎬

✨ Picturing Digital Infrastructures with Professor Anna Näslund ✨ The final lecture in The Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series 2025-26💫

In this talk, Professor Anna Näslund addressed the platformization and datafication of picture collections from an informational infrastructural perspective, meaning how both textual and visual information is organized, classified, and made accessible.

Organised by Professor Stephen Whiteman, Professor of the Art and Architecture of China, and Dr Meredyth Winter, Lecturer in Early Islamic Arts, as part of the 2025-26 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, ‘ART HISTORY X COMPUTER VISION: Reflecting on the past in a digital era’.

🔗https://youtu.be/SxzTyuMAm_g/

18/12/2025

Don’t miss your chance to read the new Cambridge element, Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy, by Fernando Filgueiras! Free access available until 31 December at
https://cup.org/44yYvA5

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16/12/2025


Credit In the process of being replaced - Beeple’s ‘Regular Animals’ (2025) Miami Beach

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16/12/2025


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