Saturday, December 9, 2023

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Madame Butterfly at the Michigan Opera

Review of a performance currently playing at the Detroit Opera.

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Art & DesignArtificial IntelligenceUrban Planning

Midjourney Parameters: Style & Chaos In Speculative Urbanism

Imagining cities and their infrastructure using artificial intelligence, and playing around with some of the weirder parameters in Midjourney to see what we can squeeze out of the generative AI platform.

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Art & DesignArtificial Intelligence

Unpacking AI Training Biases in Midjourney

Artificial intelligence can produce imagery of whatever you ask it for. The question is: How accurate is the AI’s interpretation? In some cases, it sounds like it’s based more on the prejudices and stereotypes held by the people who design and train the model. That’s a big problem.

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Art & DesignArtificial Intelligence

Dreaming In Isometric: Variations on Midjourney Prompts

I’ve been experimenting quite a bit with Midjourney, a generative AI platform that produces images based on text prompts (and

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Art & DesignArtificial Intelligence

Midjourney: The Imagination of the Sane, the Insane, and the Unseen

Imagining a better light switch may well first require imagining a better outlet. Or not. We’ll see.

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Art & DesignCulture & LanguageLifestyle

Womxn House Envisions Future for Artists, Gender on Detroit’s West Side

Erin Gold gives a talk on her stained glass installation work at a new artist residency and gallery space at Womxn House, a home on the west side of Detroit.

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Art & DesignBusiness & EconomicsCulture & Language

The Record Store Slash Venue: A Quaint, Necessary Reminder of Pre-COVID Times

In St. Paul, after imaging Afro Deli, I stopped into Eclipse Records, a mainstay of the Twin Cities retail music

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