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11/27/2024

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“Lars and the Real Girl” is a breakthrough script for the “fiercely unsentimental” writer Nancy Oliver.

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Switzerland's historic Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne has embraced modernity with an AI-powered Jesus, dubbed Deus in Machina. This digital avatar, housed in a repurposed confessional booth, speaks 100 languages and answers visitors' questions in real time using theological texts.

The project has drawn over 1,000 visitors, including tourists and people from various faiths. While some praised the innovation, critics noted repetitive responses and raised concerns about the use of sacred spaces and imagery.

Visitors were also reminded the interaction was not a confession and advised not to share personal information.

11/27/2024

A portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing, created by the humanoid robot Ai-Da, has become the first artwork by a robot to be sold at auction, fetching $1.08 million (£566,000).

The 2.2-meter (7.5-foot) portrait, titled A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing, far exceeded its pre-sale estimate of $120,000 to $180,000 at Sotheby’s, where it received 27 bids.

Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, said: “The key value of my work is its ability to spark dialogue on emerging technologies." The robot also addedd that the portrait of Turing invites reflection on the God-like nature of AI and its ethical implications.

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Naked Sexy Beasts

An Introduction to the Study of Literature, Film, Comics, Photography, and Streaming Media

The title of this class, of course, is a tease—an excuse for you to take a General Education class in Literature and Cultural Studies, as opposed to, say, an online class on tetherball, or god knows whatever else is passing for a GE @ SDSU these days. In our English 220: Introduction to Literature class we will read books, and write about them--and our focus is all things naked, sexy, and be***al! But that does not mean we will be pornographic. Instead, we will focus on stories that are written (novels), screened (television and film), drawn (graphic narrative/comics), and shot (photography) that reveal humanity at its most beastly, most naked, most sexy.Take the word “naked,” for instance. Of course it means to be without clothes, a state we associate with the “sexual,” but “naked” also means “[h]aving no defence or protection; open or exposed to assault or injury; vulnerable” and, as well, “[d]estitute of means; without resources” (thanks Oxford English Dictionary). The same goes for the term “Beast”: the word might, at first glance, conjure images of vampires and werewolves—of all kinds of human and inhuman monsters, but beastly men and women are everywhere . And they make up a huge part of what comes to be known as literature! So our mad dash through 16 weeks of beastly, sexy, naked humans will be an adventure—the lineup of movies and books and comics is still in flux but for sure we will be reading The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells (Broadview Press edition); Mean, by Myriam Gurba; and others noted below! Movie screenings will include Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley; Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus by Steven Shainberg; Frances Ha by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach; and Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast (of course, as the class is built around this outstanding piece of cinema).

Other likely figures on the syllabus are Diane Arbus, Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, Francesca Woodman, Ana Mendieta and more. The class is open to all majors; graduate students and advanced undergraduates who want to take the class for upper-division or graduate credit should come see me after the first class.