very proud to be able to publish this at New Left Review. About stochastic renderings, mean images and their means of production. With big shoutouts to Adam Harvey/Jules Laplace and Mat Dryhurst/Holly Herndon. Two more long form texts to follow on ML energy and IP/commoning/common sensing issues. An urgent one: hostile takeover of recent digital art by wannabe edgelord oligarchs; in Germany a Döpfner-Kurz-Palantir network commandeering a transgressive old school genius artist position.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/hito-steyerl-mean-images