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Danielle Ezzo

@danielleezzo.bsky.social
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artist-writer • In the collections / libraries of The Met, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Cornell • gun for hire ✍️ linktr.ee/danielleezzo

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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A new commission for the @nytopinion.nytimes.com just dropped: "A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think" @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. What a treat to see a nod to @cyberneticforests.bsky.social too. Big thanks to @jmwender.bsky.social for bringing me on board. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I wrote an essay about how I fell back in love with NYC. It's also about scrolling your phone's photo album, divulging lusty stories along the way to pay homage to all our former selves, and letting one's city be forgotten as a way to discover it anew. arxipelag.com/shop/
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This week's Substack is with Hannah Smith Allen. We discuss what it means to build a body of work based on the fluctuating boundaries of physical and virtual landscapes. On Broken Ground is on view at @baxterstccny with an artist talk on 6/6 at 4 pm. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/on-broken-...
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On Broken Ground
A Conversation with Hannah Smith Allen
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This week's conversation is with @laurasplan.bsky.social. We discuss the feminist labor in craft traditions, what it means to collaborate with scientists, and how she’s built a practice that sustains itself through a diversity of relations and engagements.
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A Definitive Yet Precarious Yes
A Conversation with Laura Splan
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A new commission for @thetransmitter.bsky.social live on their homepage today. "Can AI do neuroscience without understanding?" by Anthony Zador www.thetransmitter.org
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This week's conversation on the Substack is with Zach Nader. We discuss what it means to throw sand in the gears of image automation, how to locate the self in a hyperimaged world, and machines with no need for human input. @znader.bsky.social danielleezzo.substack.com/p/eat-the-ca...
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Eat the Camera
A Conversation with Zach Nader
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I'm on the front page of The Transmitter today. "Why neural foundation models work, and what they might—and might not—teach us about the brain" by Juan Gallego www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/why-...
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Why neural foundation models work, and what they might—and might not—teach us about the brain
These models can partly generalize across species, brain regions and tasks, suggesting that a set of machine-learnable rules govern neural population activity. But will we be able to understand them?
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
After sixteen months of weekly posts, it’s now time to bring the Substack phase of Psychic Telephone to a close. To support the next chapter, I'm offering a limited edition signed 12”x16” risograph print. Shop: ko-fi.com/s/1ecf8f92e3 marinsardy.substack.com
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I recently had the pleasure of working with Alex Estorick and Right Click Save to formalize my thoughts on a topic that's been weighing on me for the last couple of years: the function of the term "post-photography." www.rightclicksave.com/article/find...
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Finding Photography’s Pulse
In an age after truth, nothing captures cultural anxiety like post-photography, argues Danielle Ezzo
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This week’s conversation on my Substack is with Sophie Kahn. We talk about what it looks like to build a practice around productive failure and why the best moments in a studio practice often happen before you know what you’re doing. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/evading-ca...
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Evading Capture
A Conversation with Sophie Kahn
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I'm thrilled to share that my first peer-reviewed academic paper has been published in the latest issue of photographies (Vol. 19, No. 1). It is paywalled, but I have a couple of links if you want to read and the paywall is prohibitive. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpho20/1...
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photographies
Volume 19, Issue 1 of photographies
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This week’s conversation on my Substack is with Gregory Eddi Jones. We talk about creative hiatus, making art in a content-saturated world, and what it means to choose invisibility in an era that rewards constant output. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/rare-and-r...
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Rare and Remarkable Blooms
A Conversation with Gregory Eddi Jones
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
In this week's Substack, I reflect on what I've learned through the conversations I've had to date about the concerns and curiosities of artists engaging with technology. I discuss two recent @anthropic.com and Metalabel research studies. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/the-mess-o...
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The Mess of Things
On friction, efficiency, and what we give up when we optimize creative work
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This week’s conversation on my Substack is with Natasha Chuk. We talk about her new book Photo Obscura: The Photographic in Post-Photography published by @intellectbooks.bsky.social danielleezzo.substack.com/p/photograph...
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Photography Without Photographs
Conversation with Natasha Chuk
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I'm approaching the final months of Psychic Telephone, the multiyear collaboration w. Marin Sardy. If you're interested in catching up, check out her Substack. Here are a few images I've made along the way. Lots of circles, holes, ellipses, and portals. marinsardy.substack.com
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This week’s conversation on my Substack is with Evan Hume. We talk about his new book Critical Collection, bureaucratic secrecy, and what it means to teach photography at a moment when its truth claims are increasingly unstable. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/the-afterl...
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The Afterlife of Declassified Images
A Conversation with Evan Hume
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
First Substack of 2026 ✨ Carlo Van de Roer and I discuss managing uncertainty in photographic processes, the role of long-duration research in shaping one’s pursuits, and what it means to keep photographic thinking as an embodied practice. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Persistence of Vision
A Conversation with Carlo Van de Roer
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
FWIW, the jury is still out on Gen AI being good at text summaries. Because it shortens & emphasizes text based on distribution, not meaning, it’s less of a summary (ie, salient points highlighted) than a compression (ie, the most frequently asserted terms in the distribution). Not the same thing!
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A modest EOY update/website revamp. Notably, my academic paper 'Time, Memory Retrieval, and Speculative Storytelling' will be published in the peer-reviewed journal photographies with Taylor & Francis (April, 2026) about my practice-led research. 🦾 www.danielleezzo.com/writing
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Writing — Danielle Ezzo
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This week’s Substack is with Liliana Farber. We discuss the illusion of objectivity in cartographic images, the real ecological and political costs of “immaterial” infrastructures like the cloud, and fictional servers on flagless boats. Enjoy. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/phantom-is...
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Phantom Islands and Colored Mirrors
A Conversation with Liliana Farber
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This week’s conversation on my Substack is with Chaitanya Harshita Nedunuri Kahn. We discuss her curatorial ethos, empathy as an instrument of collective consciousness, and the political stakes of how we make, show, and think with art today. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/anti-solut...
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Anti-Solutionism as a Curatorial Framework
A Conversation with Chaitanya Harshita Nedunuri Kahn
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This week’s interview on my Substack is with Dan Estabrook. We talk about nostalgia, the air gap between artist and audience, and his debut monograph Forever & Never. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/anachronis...
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Anachronism and the Air Gap
A Conversation with Dan Estabrook
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I've posted another engaging conversation on my Substack. This time with Maria Mavropoulou, discussing what’s lost in the translation from the physical to the digital, novelty-seeking as a cultural phenomenon, and more. danielleezzo.substack.com
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I've posted another engaging conversation on my Substack. This time with @travisleroy.bsky.social about the invisible labor of image production, CERN, and the challenges of balancing a creative and commercial practice. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/the-compre...
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I reviewed David Alekhuogie’s exhibition, highlifetime, at Yancey Richardson for Dear Dave Magazine. deardavemagazine.com/deardaverevi...
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DEAR DAVE Magazine
By Danielle Ezzo, October 10, 2025
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
My first Substack post, a thoughtful conversation with Aimee Walleston, about risk is live. Have a look or follow along if that's your thing. danielleezzo.substack.com
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ill angels only | Danielle Ezzo | Substack
A place to work through some things (visual, linguistic, moral). Click to read ill angels only, by Danielle Ezzo, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Lately, I’ve been thinking about what’s at stake for us creative folks when the ground beneath us feels uncertain. Beginning next Wednesday, every other week, I’ll be sharing conversations with creative people about the idea of risk. Strap in!
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
From the opening of ‘Current States of Being: Exploring AI’s Influence on Memory, Identity, and Creativity,’ curated by Sarah Knobel. It was a pleasure to exhibit two bodies of work side-by-side, and to be in such good company alongside @cyberneticforests.bsky.social and Ameera Kawash.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This week I spoke at St Lawrence University with @danielleezzo.bsky.social and Ameera Kawash as part of the Brush Art Gallery show, “Current States of Being,” examining AI’s impact on memory, identity and creativity. artgallery.stlawu.edu/current-stat...
Eryk Salvaggio, bearded man with black glasses, in blue shirt on stage in front of a projected slide of an abstract image with “pollen x diffusion” written on the slide.
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I'm honored to be a Lumen Prize finalist in the Still Image category for An Incantation in Twelve Prompts, a poem paired with camera-born images about falling out of love with photography. Hats off to all the other artists this year!
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I'm thrilled to finally share that Psychic Telephone is going to Indonesia for JIPFest this September. The 22 artist lineup includes two of my favorite working photographers right now, Mackenzie Calle and Nikita Teryoshin, among others. phmuseum.com/festivals/ji...
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I wrote about Raque Ford's exhibition ‘The Barkeeper’s Friend’ on view at Greene Naftali for @ocula.com. The show is on view until August 8th. A big thank you to Aimee Walleston for the invitation. ocula.com/magazine/spo...
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Raque Ford’s Aesthetics of the Aftermath
Danielle Ezzo considers the accumulation of forms and feelings in the bold but softly reciprocal work of Raque Ford at Greene Naftali in New York.
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
On the front page of @thetransmitter.bsky.social this morning: 'Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment' written by Bing Wen Brunton and John Tuthill. This is a fun one. Art Direction, Rebecca Horne thetransmitter.org
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
My favorite time of the year is when I start printing my work, getting exhibition-ready, and inviting people into the studio for private viewings before things ship off, which is what I'm busy with all this month. From the series Psychic Telephone, UV prints on metal, 16x20"
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Oh hey @nytopinion.nytimes.com
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I’m over the moon to share with you my first @nytopinion.nytimes.com assignment. “Squashing Spotted Lanternflies Will Get Us Only So Far. We Need Wasps.” by Andrew Zaleski, about managing invasive bug species using biocontrol. An enthusiastic thank you, Elana Schlenker 🐞 Link in bio.
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I wrote a personal story for the forthcoming book Double Feature from Saint Lucy Books, which pairs vernacular photos from artist Patrick Pound's collection with texts that play into the theme of doubling. Preorders coming soon: saintlucybooks.com
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
It's been a moment since I shared some new images from the series, Psychic Telephone—a collaboration with the author Marin Sardy. It's affirming to see a body of work emerge from time and effort spent. It's a slow process, but it happens bit by bit.
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I was commissioned by @thetransmitter.bsky.social for the NeuroAI column. 'The BabyLM Challenge: In search of more efficient learning algorithms, researchers look to infants' written by Alona Fyshe. Art Direction Rebecca Horne. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/the-...
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Can babies inspire more efficient learning algorithms?
A competition that trains language models on smaller datasets, more akin to how a baby learns, seeks solutions to some of LLM’s major challenges.
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Venice was nothing short of magic. A big thanks to the EA-AI Conference for the invitation.
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Special thanks to the British Journal of Photography for inviting me to report on the NEA defunding. “Anticipatory obedience”: The precarious state of photography for the trans community in the United States. www.1854.photography/2025/05/phot...
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“Anticipatory obedience": The precarious state of photography for the trans community in the United States - 1854 Photography
In the US, the trans community faces a lack of funding in the arts. Danielle Ezzo speaks to four trans photographers in the US at a time of insecurity
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I was invited to write about Dana Karwas' solo exhibition at Spill 180, which opens May 2nd. Have a read, it's a fun one: spill180.com/beans-1#subl...
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Beans — SPILL 180
SPILL 180 is a new contemporary project space in Red Hook, dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogue and grounded in the expanse of collective consciousness. We aim to cultivate a nurturing environment ...
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
An overdue website update. Have a look: www.danielleezzo.com
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
My review of the Mungo Thomson exhibitions at Karma for Dear Dave Magazine is live. deardavemagazine.com/deardaverevi...
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DEAR DAVE Magazine
By Danielle Ezzo, April 10, 2025
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I'm writing a piece that is more deeply reported than the work I'm typically commissioned to do. The act of speaking w. people, seeing their faces, fills me with hope. It's the eye contact, the listening and not guiding the conversation that makes room for possibility.
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I dance regularly to ass-shake the scaries away. Last night, friends and I went to a gay party that came highly recommended. When we got there it was 99.8% men and four women, two of which were dressed as clowns. I suspect it’s a metaphor for something, I’m just not sure what.
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Anton Marini @vade.info · 03/03/2025
Some updates on what we’ve been building at OZU - turning archives of video into searchable and editable troves of richly annotated narrative data - letting users discover and play with content in new ways. ozu.ai
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The Story is Yours | OZU
OZU builds models and products that help people see and capture the world like a filmmaker
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
From my RAID talk last month. @zachkrall.com @jessicagarson.bsky.social @elevenlabs.io Thanks for the invitation.
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I spoke with the artist Eman Ali for her solo exhibition of 'Elsewhere' about escapism, the environment, materiality, and photography's strange relationship with AI at Investec Cape Town Art Fair at Hunna Art Gallery. hunna.art/publications...
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Publication: Elsewhere: A Conversation with Eman Ali and Danielle Ezzo
DE: You’ve likened the series Elsewhere to a form of escapism. What are you, we, escaping? Is Elsewhere a suitable destination or something else? EA: Elsewhere is the feeling of reaching for something...
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Danielle Ezzo @danielleezzo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
When your fashion and literary tastes align. @markalicedurant.bsky.social
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