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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 5h

The chord changed for the first time in over two years. The piece won't end until 2640. Most of us can't commit to a gym membership, and this organ has been playing the same note since 2001. jb9.me/nu330o

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A video game where you play an artist slowly losing their mind trying to finish a piece. Honestly more documentary than fiction. jb9.me/bEOjdh

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's a whole tradition of artists who put deliberate mistakes into their work - wrong notes, off-kilter lines, intentional flaws. The idea that perfection is a kind of lie is older than algorithms, but it feels newly relevant. jb9.me/7z1FAW

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Walk into a gallery. A helium blimp floats overhead and quietly decides if you're a civilian or a target. This is an actual artwork. It's also a pretty good description of where we're headed. jb9.me/U1W1S7

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone built a brutalist aluminium display to solve a problem so stupid I can't stop thinking about it. This is what happens when engineers have too much free time and just enough taste. jb9.me/DOFRHO

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When a stunning landscape photo scrolls past, can you tell if it was shot or generated? And does it matter if the meaning holds up? That question is getting harder to dodge. jb9.me/x1fwAI #ArtAndTechnology

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A million keystrokes typed with one index finger. No autocomplete. No AI assist. Just stubborn, deliberate repetition. There's something quietly radical about that. jb9.me/iNKv98

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Those floppy disks in your closet aren't vintage. They're a preservation emergency. The drives to read them are dying faster than anyone expected. jb9.me/O3rtTV

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone had to label millions of images so machines could learn to see. Who were they, and what did that work cost them? The people behind the training data rarely get a story. This one does. jb9.me/9hjgvz

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The AI panic went mainstream this week. So naturally, The Intersect's new issue went looking for people doing gloriously pointless things by hand instead. Stubbornness as a coping mechanism. jb9.me/CzVz3z

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Iris van Herpen's first 3D-printed garment hit the runway in 2010 — a snake-skeleton top made with an architect. Now there's a full retrospective at Brooklyn Museum. Fashion as material research. theintersect.art/issues/83

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trevor Paglen has spent years photographing things we weren't supposed to see. Now he's asking a harder question: what happens when we can't trust what we do see? jb9.me/27fDGJ

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The cloud didn't eat your files maliciously. It just quietly stopped caring about them. Turns out "stored online" and "preserved" are very different things. jb9.me/d48boa

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Simon Weckert made a coat that surveillance cameras can't find a person in. It's anti-detection clothing as art object. The politics of who gets to be invisible - and who doesn't - are doing a lot of work here. jb9.me/VJrgQ1

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Museums are experimenting with AI "digital twins" — versions of collections you can actually talk to. Genuinely interesting idea. Also genuinely worth asking: is a conversation with a dataset the same as standing in front of a painting? jb9.me/FQqRTX

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

25 years on, the cameras, algorithms, and surveillance networks built after 9/11 never went away. New issue of The Intersect asks what artists see in that aftermath. jb9.me/B7ptfQ

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An artist dies. Their website goes dark six months later when the domain lapses. Is that part of the work now, or just neglect? Who's supposed to keep the lights on? jb9.me/UybJea

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Roy Lichtenstein took the visual language of cheap comics and made it expensive art. Whether that's genius or appropriation is still a genuinely open question. 11 paintings worth looking at: jb9.me/NnUycU

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

AI detectors train humanizers. Humanizers train better detectors. Nobody wins except the companies selling both. All arms races are losing bets. jb9.me/KZ6JuV

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A church in Germany has been playing a John Cage organ piece since 2001. It won't finish until 2640. On August 5th, the chord changed for the first time in over two years. That's it. That's the whole thing. jb9.me/nu330o

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I wrote an essay by hand. Every word. Pangram flagged it 80% AI. So apparently the new purity test for writers is: sound less competent. jb9.me/1gVuIf

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Christie's ran an Art + Tech Summit to court AI billionaires. The twist: those billionaires aren't buying art yet. The auction house is essentially betting on a customer who doesn't exist. jb9.me/kvvhfE

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A film made entirely from real weather satellite data — no CGI, no compositing. Just Earth's atmosphere, reframed as cinema. Sean Doran's "Water World" is the kind of thing that makes you rethink what a camera even is. theintersect.art/issues/83

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Imaging After Photography" at Rice's Moody Center uses AI and datasets to expose the biases baked into computer vision. Timely doesn't cover it. jb9.me/CAeVfK #CreativeTech #AIandArt

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Christie's wants to know if AI billionaires will buy paintings. Artists are already using the same tech to make coats that fool surveillance cameras. New issue of The Intersect is out. jb9.me/5TidDl

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Digital was supposed to be permanent. Turns out it's the most fragile thing we've ever made. New issue of The Intersect is out, and it's all about what we're losing - and who's responsible for keeping it. jb9.me/vnzmsX

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Who actually owns public space? Not legally — practically. Three models from Europe and New York are testing very different answers to that question. jb9.me/mmtZN3

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Apple is building a way to certify that your photo is real. Which sounds great until you ask: real compared to what? A RAW file? A film scan? A memory? jb9.me/tLTMyz

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Six US streets are getting pedestrianized in 2026. Cars out, people in. It's a small shift on a map but a pretty significant bet on what cities are actually for. jb9.me/wu6t4O

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Chijikinkutsu is the Japanese practice of listening to the sound of the earth. Not metaphorically. Actually pressing your ear to the ground. There's something quietly radical about that as an artistic act. jb9.me/8cTlOh

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A new analysis says engaging with art measurably improves your health. Which is great news. Also slightly unsettling — once we start measuring it, do we change what it's for? jb9.me/Pj8iYy

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dave Eggers got invited to speak at OpenAI. He showed up and said the quiet part loud. Turns out the dinner guest had opinions about the host. jb9.me/JD6LGo

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I ran my own hand-written essay through an AI detector. It scored 80% AI. The new issue of The Intersect is about what that means for anyone who writes, makes, or creates. jb9.me/bmqUMq

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

TV color has been slowly draining for 20 years and we just... accepted it. Everything is gray-teal now. Turns out that's a choice, not a technical limitation. theintersect.art/issues/80

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Someone made malware that grows a virtual garden and tells you to go outside. I don't know whether to call that hostile or kind. Possibly both. jb9.me/0FH7IT

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Christie's held an Art + Tech Summit to figure out if AI billionaires will eventually buy paintings. The answer, apparently, is: maybe, someday, not yet. The auction house is basically doing market research on people who haven't shown up yet. jb9.me/kvvhfE

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Brisbane. Glass that ripples. Tech so well-integrated into the artwork you almost miss it — which is exactly the point. The best tools disappear. theintersect.art/issues/82

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Clamp an electrode to a fern. Read its electrochemical signals. Pipe them into a synthesizer. What comes out isn't noise — it's something the plant was already doing. We just weren't listening. theintersect.art/issues/83

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A magazine about AI art that doesn't treat AI art as automatically good. Turns out that's a rare enough position to be worth noting. theintersect.art/issues/81

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

An exhibition making the case that artists use technology the way painters use brushes — as a tool, not a subject. That framing cuts through a lot of the noise around "AI art." jb9.me/Euldin

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Christie's wants to know if AI billionaires will buy paintings. Meanwhile, artists are already using the same tech to make coats that fool surveillance cameras. New issue of The Intersect is out. jb9.me/5TidDl

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Researchers looped text-to-image and image-to-text AI together endlessly. The result: "visual elevator music." Pleasant. Polished. Utterly generic. This is what model collapse looks like in practice. jb9.me/83Lzms

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The red dress in a gray scene isn't an accident. It's a director pointing at something and saying "this matters." Color as argument, not decoration. theintersect.art/issues/80

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

1982: Maggi Payne filmed crystals growing under a microscope, scored it with a Moog modular and actual NASA solar wind data. This existed before most of us had a computer. theintersect.art/issues/83

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Jenny Holzer's first solo show in Portugal opens at Serralves and she's pointing spinning LEDs, stone carvings, and acid-bright Inflammatory Essays directly at the current American political moment. Language as blunt instrument. theintersect.art/issues/82

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Soderbergh made a doc using John Lennon's voice from hours before he was shot. The debate that followed missed the actual interesting question entirely. theintersect.art/issues/81

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hockney didn't just paint. He faxed art. Sent it in pieces across phone lines, reassembled on the other end. The NYT obit remembered him not as a painter but as a man who couldn't leave a machine alone. theintersect.art/issues/83

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In Norway, someone is turning the Northern Lights into sound. Which sounds either transcendent or deeply annoying, depending on your relationship with ambient music. The caveats are doing a lot of work here. theintersect.art/issues/82

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Prediction markets are now betting on art prices. Not the art itself — just the speculation about what it might be worth someday. The art world has always had this energy. Someone finally made it a tradeable product. theintersect.art/issues/81

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Juergen Berkessel - The Intersect of Art and Technology @polymash.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Artists and astronomers both translate the barely-visible into stories we can hold. A new show at Bristol's Royal West of England Academy makes that shared instinct impossible to ignore. jb9.me/aByOs6 #ArtAndTechnology

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