Synthetic footage and old, unrelated clips are being shared on social media with false claims that they show the 2026 war between the US, Israel and Iran.
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ai-clips-old-footage-add-to-iran-war-misinformation/
An art installation titled "The Department of Truth" by Jonny Scholes, set in a gallery with dark wood parquet floors. On a white wall, the black logo for the "Australian Trust Authority" is visible above three grey office cubicles. Each cubicle is sparsely furnished with a white desk, a black office chair, and a computer monitor showing a digital interface. A small notice board with flyers and a single potted artificial plant stand nearby, creating the sterile atmosphere of a government office.
The other half of this artwork is at the Tasmanian Museum where you can work for The Australian Trust Authority in a tired govt office.
A sign in a sunny public square titled "TODAYS DIGITAL CONTENT ADVICE." It features a danger-style gauge with segments ranging from "Use Caution" (blue) to "Stay Offline" (red). The needle is pointed firmly at the red "Stay Offline" section. The bottom of the sign reads TRUSTAUTHORITY.AU. The background shows a park setting with large trees and stone buildings.
Latest advice from The Australian Trust Authority in Nipaluna/Hobart...
How many writers were there supposed to be presenting?
Read this just when I needed to. Thanks and right back at you.
Screenshot of the camera app open on an android phone. In view is an abstract painting on a wall. The painting uses orange and blue, with lots of vertical lines. There is a Google lens tooltip showing the numbers 2211184210125 suggesting the camera app thinks the painting is a barcode.
My camera thinks I'm painting barcodes... Which I guess isn't too far from the truth?
Hobart Current is an art biennale in Nipaluna/Hobart, Lutruwita/Tasmania. 10 artists have created world responding to the theme "Here" ⏩ hobartcurrent.com
The artwork spans multiple locations around Nipaluna and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, with communication between the components of all 3 nodes.
The artwork explores a near future where the Aus govt has recognised they have no power to stop the surge in fake online content and digital services, so have launched a new govt body to manage the fallout.
A photo of a busy street with sandstone buildings. Standing on the grass in the foreground is a large road sign held up by concrete weights. You can only see the back of the sign which appears to have an electrical box on the back side. Some pedestrians wait on the side of the road to cross the wet street which is shimmering in the sunshine.
'The Department of Truth' opens as part of Hobart Current this Friday! No spoilers yet... Hence the rear view.
Nice! Working on something similar but for scribbles sent to me by my brother. What's the display?
I machined my first metal part today. Hand cut/drilled from a larger slab of aluminum, accurate to 0.05mm (with the aid of 4 custom jigs). So satisfying 🤤
Surprised to see GitHub links for those people. Where do they link to?
A mess of vertical lines painted with spray paint on a wall. The photo is tightly cropped so you can only see painted surface. The painting is broken into triangular sections each painted either pale blue, pale orange or lilac. Different sections are painted over with messy vertical lines. The wall has lots of tiny raindrops on it.
Maybe purple isn't so bad?
The funnest part of self hosting is codenaming all your services. My favorite so far is trunkchatter (logs/error tracking). 🙂
A piece of paper lying on a workshop table covered in layers of paint and stencil over spray. On the paper is an artwork depicting a silhouetted headless human figure with their arms held upwards. Where its face should be is a stencil of Queen Elizabeth 2 in a different style. Some crude lines are drawn in the silhouette and on either side of it are simple characters drawn in scratchy linework. On the left, the figure holds out a Sceptre and has a necklace. On the right the figure has a skull necklace and a spikey tunic. Both wear similar crowns. Everything on the artwork is various types of black, except for two red hearts either side of the queen. It appears to be somewhat in jest and is a collaboration between four very different styles.
Recent studio collab with some good friends - Die Laughing Collective and Ha-Ha. One of 75 unique originals we made that day 😅
Next up is replacing Spotify with Jellyfin+Symfonium (buying music from BandCamp and ripping my old CDs).
I also replaced PocketCast with AntennaPod just because it's fully open source so why not? Couple of bugs, but no less than PocketCast.
Two small wins recently. Replaced Amazon Audible with Libro.fm and Google Search with @kagi.com. Not looking back, they both rock.
Nice to be back in the workshop/studio after finishing up some client projects that have occupied the last month or so 😊
Thank you so much Richard Flanagan! #politas
(Which is not to say Lab/LNP *aren't* owned by the gambling industry.)
Pretty sure in this context "online gaming" means "online computer games"? Some of which certainly are problematic, but not in the same breath as pokies/casinos/racing etc.
This was a badly worded financial year joke for those not following...
I was born on July 1st, so it's only natural that I do my "year in review" newsletter now right? For those not subbed, you can read it here pencilbooth.com/takes/4f013c...
The listing page of all the artworks in particular was literally unreadable this year. I ended up building my own version of the program so I could see what's on.
The sculpture appears as a pinkish/reddish square face up on the floor of a large exhibition hall. You can see that its surface is striped, but not much else. Behind it are sculptures and video artworks mounted on a large scaffold
A close up of one corner of the sculpture. You can see that the main pink/red striped image is very pixelated. In the corner is an infographic - the text is too small to read but it shows views compiled from different bands of landsat 8 and 9 with bright colours that contrast strongly with the main image
Another close up of one corner of the sculpture, also showing an infographic. This one has an expanded view that is recognizable as the roof of a building, with the same color palette as the main image
The sculpture is sitting on the ground, face up. It's about 8cm tall and 1x1 metre square with an extruded aluminum frame around the edge. Facing up is a printed image that shows pixel artifacts of a reddish/pinkish striped pattern (it's the roof of the exhibition hall). The box is lit from within by LEDs and slightly glowing
Remote Viewing, a new sculptural work that displays (to scale, one-to-one) what Google Earth sees of the location it's placed in
currently on view at the Fellbach Triennial Kleinplastik 🛰️
🔥🔥 Love this!!
100%. Now I'm wondering what I've been missing when searching "{topic} datavis inspiration" all these years.
This is the exact opposite of what I was expecting/hoping for XD
