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brian droitcour

@bdroit.bsky.social
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
while reading the checklist at a gallery group show i saw (b. 2000) and had to sit down
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
laura owens makes work at the intersection of isabella stewart gardner museum and photoshop
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Defector @defector.com · 15/01/2025
The wonder of the regional art museum: defector.com/the-wonder-o...
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The Wonder Of The Regional Art Museum | Defector
A 24-hour business trip to Cleveland four days before Christmas was a bad idea; I see that now. There wasn’t even that much snow, by Lake Erie standards, but Delta Airlines didn’t seem to care that I ...
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
do i really have to post about the same thing i wrote on instagram, twitter, AND bluesky ?
a photo of a monitor playing an animation showing some outcroppings the wilderness, one of which has a castle on it. the subtitle says “too much”
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
when museum guards tell me to wear my backpack on the front, i want to tell them i can safely keep it on my back because as a gay person i have enhanced spatial awareness
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
of all the exhibitions about art and technology i've seen, "The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970-2020" is my favorite. I reviewed it for my newsletter: www.patreon.com/posts/heres-...
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
as part of Frieze's year-in-review coverage I wrote about how museums presented the relationship between art and AI in 2024: www.frieze.com/article/year...
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The Year in Review: Museums Are Leaving AI Hype Behind
This year, arts institutions jettisoned dead-end questions about art made with artificial intelligence – and instead asked viewers to learn how it works
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My piece highlighting Gen AI “myths” in terms of how we talk about the technology, and what purpose those myths serve, is my self-serving contribution (looking to post a bunch from other folks today too). www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
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Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press
Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
it’s a bummer that the art world won’t engage in any conversations that aren’t about “identity.” the backlash to dean kissick’s essay just proves his point
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
yesterday I sent out a newsletter with the third edition of my recommendations of art to look at and things to read. the first two were for subscribers only but i liked how this came out, so i decided to make it public: tinyurl.com/a7hksm95
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Defector @defector.com · 29/11/2024
Why does hotel art look like that? defector.com/why-does-hot...
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Why Does Hotel Art Look Like That? | Defector
I recently stayed at a blandly business-oriented hotel in San Jose in order to celebrate my birthday, drink a tall boy, and watch the Sharks lose. You know this type of hotel. There were white duvet c...
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
i’m organizing a reading group to discuss Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy, meeting both in New York and online. get in touch if you want to join! www.patreon.com/posts/rough-...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
"For people with the ability and willingness to work on network problems, the real choice isn't between staying on the wasteland surfaces of the internet and going underground, but between making safer and better places for human sociability and not doing that."
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against the dark forest
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.
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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This isn’t an echo chamber for me. I disagree with you all in some way.
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
last week i went on a press trip to China to see Beeple’s first museum show. i wrote about it for my newsletter tinyurl.com/4whxtm2c
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I thought this was really interesting and at certain moments parallels some of the tensions in Dean's Harper's essay and its reception: www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
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Why Do We Talk This Way?
Technology is dramatically changing political speech, rewarding quantity and variety over the neat messages of the past.
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
i should probably use a normal profile pic instead of the twitter egg, which i thought was hilarious in june 2023. i still think it’s kinda funny though
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
using Selfie to summon followers
gay bear makes peace sign in front of taiwanese pagoda
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
last month for my newsletter i wrote a review of the gwangju biennale that praised its orientation toward the future, which makes it stand out among biennials that rummage through the past. www.patreon.com/posts/what-i...
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
i read dean kissick’s harper piece.. i feel like the way the magazine frames it overemphasizes his critique of identity art (which is tired) and undersells his critique of the institutional mainstream’s obsession with historical work (which is something that needs to be critiqued)
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
i need to travel less
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
maybe trump’s victory and the subsequent crypto bull market will mean my expertise in NFT art will be valuable and I can make money again
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
not sure i want to know what “pork floss” is but i like eating it
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
hello new followers, i look forward to disappointing you
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
i think pr companies should subscribe to my patreon as a way to compensate me for receiving all their emails
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
rip
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
i would like to see more writing on the differences between GANs and generative AI and less on whether AI is art
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
i was at a play and really enjoying it but then an actor accidentally broke the scenery and they sent everyone home.. no one told them that the show must go on i guess
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 30/06/2023
and just like that, i skeeted
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 30/06/2023
my microbiome is in shambles
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brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social · 30/06/2023
what should i skeet about?
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