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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 21/09/2026

I'm so so very tired of getting a constant stream of emails re my new (not yet out!) book that begin like this 🫩 I guess I'm just going to have to set up an email filter for the phrase "I recently came across" and "especially caught my attention"

An AI-generated spam email that reads: Dear Amanda,

I recently came across Digital Photography After AI, and I was immediately struck by the way you approach AI-generated images not simply as a new technological development, but as something that forces us to reconsider what photography itself means. The question of whether an image that looks indistinguishable from a photograph should be understood as photography at all creates a fascinating starting point for examining the boundaries between image-making, technology, and representation.

What especially caught my attention was the historical scope of the book.

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 31/07/2026

RIP Raoul Vaneigem 1934-2026 A good run for a radical leftist and an influential legacy

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 11/06/2026

This account/comment is making the rounds right now. My friends, this is an AI-generated profile picture and clearly a political spam operation don’t engage with this crap

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 06/06/2026

How chuffed with himself do you think AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky was when he got this angle on Putin

Putin with a halo— President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia speaking at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg on Friday.

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 21/05/2026

Watch me crush a dying man’s dreams of having discovered a da Vinci painting on Swedish public television: www.svtplay.se/video/jMdmpB...

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 07/05/2026

And academia all over the world grinds to a halt …

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 07/05/2026

Cover reveal! Digital Photography after AI out Dec 1, 2026! 🎉 mitpress.mit.edu/978026205639...

Cover of book with title Digital Photography after AI showing an AI-generated image of a flamingo in a bathtub

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 21/04/2026

ChatGPT uses sources now, they said. It's more reliable, they said. Great images/sources for this made up art historian "Seth Drimmer" (alter ego of @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social I assume)

A picture of a researcher in Hong Kong at an auction house with a description of Seth Drimmer created by chatgpt that says: Seth Drimmer
Seth Drimmer is an American art historian and curator known for his expertise in modern and contemporary art. His work has focused on twentieth-century visual culture, curatorial practice, and the intersections between art history and the art market. Drimmer is recognized for his scholarship and for roles within prominent art institutions and auction houses.
Key facts
• Profession: Art historian and curator
• Specialization: Modern and contemporary

Just a bunch of irrelevant links for 'seth group' and 'seth music' etc.

more irrelevant links for 'drums by seth' and 'seth computer'

An art expert from Christie's talks about... getty screenshot showing the person is not Seth Drimmer

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 15/02/2026

My article, "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare: Computer Vision and the Art Theory of Joseph Beuys" appears in this excellent new volume released Feb. 28

Book cover Artificial Intelligence and Art History: Looking at Images in an Algorithmic Culture ed. Kathryn Brown

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 14/02/2026

I still don’t understand why the Swedes think the Canadians cheated at curling 🤔

Reddit post: Did Kennedy burn the rock if he feathered it over the hog line? Probably. And an official might call it in the future. But I can guarantee you that Kennedy thought he was clean on that release.

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 12/02/2026

Mechanical turks at it again www.forbes.com/sites/ronsch...

Forbes - Moltbook Looked Like An Emerging Al Society, But Humans Were Pulling The Strings

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 12/02/2026

This forced me to read it in a robot voice {"type":"text", "content":"goofy"}

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 02/02/2026

Ah nytimes is at it again… and this is the only voice representing a humanities perspective 🫠

What is your biggest bet about the future of A.I. in five years? Yuval Noah Harari Historian:
Within five years, A.I. agents are likely to become legal persons in at least some countries.

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 30/01/2026

One of the major funding bodies in Sweden is using AI-generated images as thumbnails for the research projects they've funded and... the absolute absurdity of the "The Best ways to improve reading skills" project thumbnail

four thumbnails for research projects that use ai-generated images, including a classroom with gibberish numbers and letters on the wall

a thumbnail for a research project that uses an ai-generated image, including a classroom with gibberish numbers and letters on the wall

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 25/12/2025

Mephistopheles Navidad my own little Rosemary’s baby turns 6 today

Black standard poodle with meat birthday cake

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 26/11/2025

Sometimes the internet still impresses me with its weirdness

No burp subreddit created medical research

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 23/10/2025

Here are two others in the sequence on the AP website:

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 23/10/2025

Your daily image fact check. This lovely AP photo is being spread around social media as an image of the French detective in charge of investigating the Louvre robbery. It's not AI but there's absolutely no indication I can see that it's anything other than a dapper passerby

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 25/09/2025

My contribution with Matti La Mela (@matti-lamela.bsky.social) — ”What is Digital Humanities and what’s it doing in the department of ALM (Archives, Libraries, and Museums)”

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 25/09/2025

Soon to be released (Oct 9): this gorgeous pink anthology

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 13/07/2025

Just finished reading Karen Hao’s Empire of AI — and wow so good!

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 18/06/2025

I hate this so much... just let me read the damn book. Why is this the default? So many students are going to miss out.

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 02/06/2025

...or when this kind of mistake could make it to print without being noticed (2008)

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 02/06/2025

I love reading old tech literature. ...when terminology had not yet settled (2009)

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 27/05/2025

Two pages that have aged pretty badly

Preface the new authoritarian Salvatore babones

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 01/05/2025

The rate of wtf articles appearing in the nytimes seems to be accelerating 🫠

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 01/05/2025

Happy May Day! Thinking of those who fought and died—and still fight and die—for the rights of workers around the world.

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 15/04/2025

Great visit to Doha - so interesting to hear perspectives on AI/art history here in Qatar. Thanks to the welcoming art history department at VCUarts

Talk at VCUarts Amanda Wasielewski with slide that says pseudomorphism

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 08/04/2025

Not particularly looking forward to the weather though 🥵

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 28/01/2025

This photo is so Scandinavian coded

Prime ministers of Sweden Norway Finland and Denmark having a meal

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 19/01/2025

Just learned that letters to the editor in Art Journal in 1967 were the listserv/social media post of the time

A letter from Rosalind Krauss asking for information on David Smith works

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 25/11/2024

As Alexei Shulgin once said “Who would search for grains of gold in all this shit?”

Screenshot publisher spines promises to release thousands of AI generated books

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 16/11/2024

Me showing Reviewer 2 the edits I made to my article based on their citation suggestions

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 09/11/2024

Critical Digital Art History, edited by myself and Anna Näslund, is out now from Intellect (available Open Access!) www.intellectbooks.com/critical-dig... #arthistory #dh #openaccess

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 07/11/2024

So I wanted to see how ChatGPT would summarize one of my articles to get an eye for it, and, um, did I publish an un-summarizable article? Is my argument that bad? 😅 This is a hilariously generic answer to "write a summary"

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 05/11/2024

And, of course, Anna and I have contributed our own chapters: Anna Näslund, "Picturing Platformization: Information Infrastructure in Picture Archives Online" Amanda Wasielewski, "Zombie Canon: Art datasets, generative AI, and the reanimation of the western canon of art"

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 05/11/2024

Benjamin Zweig (@medievalben.bsky.social), "Hyperformalism: Notes on Machine Vision and Art Historical Method"

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 05/11/2024

Lotte Philipsen, "Deep Art History: Inferences between Google Arts & Culture and Art"

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 05/11/2024

Leah Lovett (@leahlo.bsky.social) and Valerio Signorelli, "RE:Inventing the Museum: co-creation in digital space"

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 05/11/2024

Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja, "Global Digital Museum Narratives: Representation, Authorship, and Audiences"

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 05/11/2024

We are so grateful to the authors of chapters in the book, including: Nina Lager Vestberg (@lagernina.bsky.social), "Source, surrogate, store, and search: significant sites in post-digitized art history"

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 05/11/2024

It's finally here! Unboxed my copies of Critical Digital Art History: Interface and Data Politics in the Post-Digital Era Very grateful to my co-editor Anna Näslund and all the contributors to the volume. This book had its origins all the way back in April 2021! #dah #dh #ai

A box with the book Critical Digital Art History inside

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 13/10/2024

Can’t wait for attractive meter to be a thing … hot or not was a training set 🔮

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 09/09/2024

Check the newly released anthology Virtual Photography -- open access! -- which includes my essay "The Latent Objective World: Photography and the Real after AI" www.transcript-publishing.com/media/pdf/91...

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 01/09/2024

The passage on photography, for example is so wrong imo: photography wasn't accepted as art because people didn't *realize* there were choices to be made or there was skill was involved (it got easier to make photos over time ofc) but rather it was conscious recontextualization

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