Episode 113: Facing the Future

Jessica, who is spending the month in Italy, made a trip to Milan to see Kate Crawford | Trevor Paglen: Training Humans at the Prada Foundation.

Whether this incredible gesture to surveil us is a measure of public oversight or an expression of, I don’t know, Orwellian lunacy depends on many things not least of which is your skin color.…Your face can be picked out of a crowd, it can be misnamed, misaligned, mislabeled and there’s all sorts of wrongful accusations that are going on.

Also mentioned this week:

• Clare Garvie, New York Times, You’re in a Police Lineup, Right Now
• New York Times, One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority
• Adam Green, The New Yorker,  How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics 
• Jerry Saltz, Vulture, This Renovation Plan Will Ruin MoMA, and the Only People Who Can Stop It Aren’t Trying
• Jerry Saltz, Vulture, What The Hell Was Modernism?
• Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, With A $450 Million Expansion MoMA is Bigger, Is That Better?
• Justin Davidson, New York,  The New MoMA Tries to Get Out of Its Own Way. We’ll See If It Can.
• Reuters, Paris Zoo Unveils The Blob an Organism With No Brain But 720 Sexes
• The Creeping Garden
• Pathe, Secrets of Nature, Magic Myxies
• F. Percy Smith, The Birth of a Flower
• Michael Bierut, Design Observer, Remembering Gordon Salchow

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