The artworld is not a place of equality. But if we input bias, we can only get biased outputs. Continue reading
November 17, 2023
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Category Archives: Art and Ethics
December 2, 2022
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Lizzo Playing Madison’s Flute and Kim Wearing Monroe’s Dress Are Not the Same
Lizzo playing James Madison’s crystal flute is a success story for preservationists. Kim Kardashian wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress is not. Continue reading
November 2, 2022
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AI Art is Art
If readymades and photography are art, then so is art made by DALL-E, Midjourney, and the rest. Continue reading
September 15, 2022
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Accessibility and the Problem of Alt Text: Who Is It For and How Could It Be Better?
An analysis of the intricacies of how alternative text is used to communicate fundamentally visual information in a linguistic mode. Continue reading
February 11, 2022
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Life as Fanfic: Individual and Collective Narrative-Building
In making art, we make ourselves into something beyond what our original authors may have intended. Continue reading
January 27, 2022
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Polite Conversations: Philosophers Discuss the Arts
A YouTube series features interviews with philosophers about their work in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Continue reading
January 13, 2022
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The Political and Aesthetic Controversy over Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia
Six scholars discuss the complicated history of Hagia Sophia and its recent conversion to a mosque Continue reading
October 22, 2021
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The Challenge Of Canceling: Comedy, Chappelle, And The Closer
If Chappelle’s art dines on controversy, cancellation serves it dessert. Continue reading
April 14, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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What’s So Bad About Digital Blackface?
Digital blackface is actively skewing our perception of what blackness contains, and thus what possibilities are open to all of us. Continue reading
March 31, 2021
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What Really Went Wrong at ‘Reply All’: Norms for a New Medium
To understand how ‘Caliphate’ and ‘Reply All’ have gone wrong, we need to understand how the conventions and function of podcasting have created distinctive forms of media. Continue reading
