Interesting opportunities for trans-porn: We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now (2018) Samantha Cole.
20180125
Artists explore the ethical aspects of commercial DNA ancestry testing (2018) Regine.
It turned out that while Blandy’s origins can be traced back fairly precisely to several regions and sub-regions of the UK as well as to a couple of European areas, Achiampong, whose genes are 98.5% African, received a very rudimentary overview of the geographical origins of his family.
20180124
Response for the Berlin Wall Distortion has been great! The demo video has received over 1000 views in under 24h and the response on Reddit has been warm. Rasmus Hedlund shared the video on his Facebook and Kristian said he’d show it to students at the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad) where he’s teaching.
20180122
MSHR ~ Synthesizer Designs by Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy.
Resoiled my shoes.
Bought a batch of audio cables. With them I’ll get the most out of my new (old) Allen & Heath GL2 mixer. Also ordered a battery for my new (old) DigiTech DSP 256XL Multi Effects Processor. The cables came from Germany (Thomann) in a week, the battery from Nurmijärvi (Akkunetti) is taking longer!
Preparing the next Neighborizome event. The last one on 18.2 was a relative success. There was enough audience, the mood was easygoing, presentations by guests were smart and after talks with Kombutcha went well too.
20180120
“Princessification” exposed: Sexual assault and the princess industry are all part of the same system (2018) Maisam Najafizada.
In this patriarchal context, women are expected to be obedient daughters, chaste sisters and/or submissive princess-like unthinking girlfriends or wives. In other words they are considered sex objects or asexual deity figures. We commodify, commercialise and sexualize women and use them as tools to promote dominant patriarchal values.
Sexual harassment is but one of the many manifestations of this patriarchal context.