Designer, futurist, and cartoon artist, Viraj Joshi joins Tobias Revell, Sydney Allen-Ash and Robert Bolton to talk drop-shipped, crowd-funded cloud-seeding; the uncanny bigotry of AI generated fashion models; and how we ended up in the era of “quantitative aesthetics” — on Broadcast From Later.
Signals:
Particle Washing: What could possibly go wrong with DIY geo-engineering?
Artificial Diversity: What’s so off-putting about Levi’s AI-generated fashion models?
Quantitative Aesthetics: In slide decks as in fine art, why are stats so seductive?
Speculative Departures:
Rogue Geoengineering: What forms of collective action might emerge in response to climate change?
Advanced Art Statistics: Could appreciating art become more like appreciating baseball?
Avatarism: Where do video game avatars fit into the future of identity, diversity, and representation?
Cynical Fictions: Could a Star Trek for today’s tech be something less cynical than Black Mirror?
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