Resources

Things to do in NYC

Type	What	Where
Exhibition	Charles Gaines - American Manifest	Governors Island
Exhibition	What Models Make Worlds	Ford Foundation Gallery
Dog Costume Contest	Oct 28, Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest	Fort Green Park
Library and Community Space: Lots of workshops/events run by some Bard Alumni	Wendy's Subway	Bushwick
Art/Tech Community Space: Lots of workshops/events	NYC Resistor	Near Barclays

Assigned Readings

Year	Title	Author
1987	The Age of Intelligent Machines	Ray Kurzweil
2004	Robotic Poetics	William Winder
2016	Perpetual Lineup	Clare Garvie, Alvaro Bedoya & Jonathan Frankle
2017	Intro to Markov Chains	Dan Schiffman
2018	Feminist Data Set	Caroline Sinders
2018	Making Kin with Machines	by Jason Edward Lewis, Noelani Arista, Archer Pechawis, and Suzanne Kite
2019	Making Pictures with Generative Adversarial Networks	Casey Reas
2019	Excavating A.I.	Kate Crawford & Trevor Paglen
2019	The Racist History BehindFacial Recognition	Sahil Chinoy
2020	Gods and Robots: Ancient Dreams of Technology	Adrienne Mayor
2020	Ethical Malice in Peer-Reviewed Machine Learning Literature	Vinay Prabhu
2020	What Does The Dataset Want? Sorting Things Out	Anna Ridler
2020	The umbra of an imago: Writing under control of machine learning	Allison Parrish
2021	Identity protection with deepfakes: ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ director David France	WITNESS
2021	Datasheets for Datasets	Timnit Gebru
2022	Scrapism	Sam Lavigne
2022	Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image Generator	Andy Baio
2022	Human Touch	Karishma Mehrotra
2022	Computational Anthropology and Exploring Identity through Artificial Synthesis	Ari Melenciano
2022	AI Music Optimism in the Face of Dystopia	Max Alper
2023	MP3s made by NPCs? The rise of AI-generated muzak	Günseli Yalcinkaya
2023	Mean Images	Hito Steyerl
2023	ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web	Ted Chiang
2023	Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human	Josh Dzieza
2023	The Ballad of Deepfake Drake	The Daily
2023	The Ballad of Deepfake Drake	The Daily

Suggested Readings

Year	Title	Author
1990	Aaron's Code: Meta-Art, Artificial Intelligence and the Work of Harold Cohen	Pamela McCorduck
2003	Image Ethics in the Digital Age	Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, & Jay Ruby
2015	Towards a Poetics of Artificial Superintelligence	Nora Khan
2017	Fairy Tales and Machine Learning: Retelling, Reflecting, Repeating, Recreating	Anna Ridler & Georgia Ward Dyer
2017	On the dark history of intelligence as domination	Stephen Cave
2018	Making Kin with Machines	Jason Edward Lewis, Noelani Arista, Archer Pechawis, and Suzanne Kite
2018	Why Technology Favors Tyranny	Yuval Noah Harari
2018	Data and Decay	Anna Ridler
2019	How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation	Rodrigo Ochigame
2019	Identity Turns on A Pixel When the World Becomes A Picture	Shinji Toya
2020	Seeing, Naming, Knowing	Nora Khan
2020	AI ART	Joanna Zylinska
2020	Indigenous Protocol and AI	Jason Edward Lewis, Dr. Hemi Whaanga, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Ashley Cordes, Suzanne Kite, Corey Stover, Melita Stover Janis, Michelle Lee Brown
2021	Multimodal datasets: misogyny, pornography, and malignant stereotypes	Abeba Birhane ∗ University College Dublin & Lero Dublin, Ireland Vinay Uday Prabhu* Independent Researcher Emmanuel Kahembwe University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK
2021	Usefulness of a Useless Neural Network	Grayson Earle
2022	Art Teachers' Guide to Artificial Intelligence	Minne Atairu
2022	Infinite Images and the latent camera	Holly Herndon & Matt Dryhurst
2022	Between Metaphors and Meaning	Maya Ganesh
2022	Generative AI is here: Who should control it?	Hard Fork
2023	Who owns the content AI creates?	Dina Bass
2023	AI Isn’t Hollywood’s Villain—It’s a Flawed Hero	Joshua Glick
2023	Artists and Illustrators Are Suing Three A.I. Art Generators for Scraping and ‘Collaging’ Their Work Without Consent	Min Chen
2023	AI, WTF Do You Know About Pain?	Noah Fischer
2023	Parables of AI in/from the Global South	Data & Society