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When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

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Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from physics to fish and wildlife management to human-rights advocacy.

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Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

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It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.

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I think of AI itself as a monster of capitalism.

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Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

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I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

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I am not a journalist or an academic.

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I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug.

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Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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