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Tag - Art and design
As debate rages around the ethics and legalities of artificial intelligence,
artists are exploring the technology’s possibilities – and its precarities
Cate Blanchett – beloved thespian, film star and refugee advocate – is standing
at a lectern, addressing the European Union parliament. “The future is now,” she
says, authoritatively. So far, so normal, until: “But where the fuck are the sex
robots?”
The footage is from a 2023 address that Blanchett actually gave – but the rest
has been made up.
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Facebook founder shares photo of sculpture of Priscilla Chan, rendered in green
with a large silver cloak
Mark Zuckerberg has raised eyebrows by commissioning a giant sculpture of his
wife, Priscilla Chan.
In a photo of the statue, posted to Instagram, the Facebook CEO and co-founder
said he was “bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your
wife”.
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The performance artist and ‘sex clown’ shares her list of (mostly) wholesome
clips: the cutest children, the best dog and the glitziest aerobics workout
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I am a person who believes in laughter. I work in live art. My main medium is
performance. In art-making I revere legacies of border-riders, defiant
sexualities, witches and rascals. I have been known as a sex clown and I am
proud to invoke laughter.
Some of the best laughing is out of absurdity. Laughter erupts and massages.
Purrs and murmurs. It erodes calcified, rational, top-down thinking. It appears
mysteriously, sometimes even when we think we should not laugh. My grandmother
Betty used to say to my brother and I: “You’re laughing now, you’ll be crying in
a minute!” We need our tears and hope; I wouldn’t be laughing so hard if it
wasn’t so deeply serious.
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