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Image credit: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)
2022, 23:00 minutes, Colour
tapecode 566.113
The ride-sharing app Uber swept through my city like a tidal wave, overturning decades of immigrant taxi drivers working long hours to provide for their families. I met scientists, researchers, engineers, even a doctor who was waiting for his papers. Overnight the streets were jammed with gig economy recruits, moms and dads… ⊕
Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). LaMDA was designed to create chat bots that interact with humans. Lemoine’s interview led him to conclude the AI was sentient. When he made the claim publicly, he was fired.This… ⊕
Rabid Beach is a hand-painted animated music video created by Jesi Jordan for the band Pig Pen, featuring 600 individually painted animation frames.
This animation is about the symbiotic relationship humans have with earth and about a mother’s journey to seek justice for her child. The big foot tramples on a baby flower before it has the chance to flourish. Her mother journeys through the roots of the earth and sprouts into various forms of life as she tries to cling… ⊕
Meteor is a visually stunning piece that employs animated surrealist imagery to delve into the narrator's profound grief over losing her best friend within the repressive Islamic Republic of Iran. Meteor juxtaposes the international "women, life, freedom" protest movement with the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+… ⊕