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I am no longer hosting my art on any platforms for which I do not exert some amount of direct control. Platforms such as the ones offered by companies like Spotify Meta and X have leveraged culture itself as blackmail in order to sell ad space and collect data that they can then also sell to extract wealth away from the very artists and creators they feign support of in the form of things like “opt-out” user conditions for data set inclusion and image rights waivers, not paying musicians an eqitable share of profits (or at all), and many other toxic capitalist ploys thereby gaining increasing material wealth with which they can strucutrally shape the very hostage society they manipulate. This is fascistic and undemocratic. The formation of the new techologies found in generative networking does not suddenly waive the rights of citizens to their data nor their intellectual property. I have worked adjacent to and with machine learning algorithms for a decade now. Data is an individual’s material possession. Data is not knowledge or concept, but material document. Any who present Data with an emphemeral transmissability aim to misrepresent the complex reality of networking and computation. The nonconsensual inclusion of any individual’s data, topically in the form of document (images, recordings, etc. ), into a data set for the purpose of gaining material benefit via training a generative model is theft in a system of capital materials. This is not conspiratorial fantasy. There are many widely acknowledged systems in place that show how the accumulation of money begets power in the current formation of the United States see, lobbying, the dependence of political campaigning on monetary donation, et cetera. If I am to stand by my beliefs, then I must attempt to encourage the loss of their fundamental power: money. Presently, public reporting suggests that ~97% to 98% of Meta’s revenue comes from ad space on their own products primarily Facebook, Instagram, secondarily Whatsapp and the rest of its app suite. I believe that those who possess the ability to divest their lives from both using these products and also supporting them via content generation, have a prerogative to do so. This fight is not fair, and it will unfairly require those with the privilege of sacrifice to do so, and fundamentally every decrease in usership of these products is a decrease in material returns for these companies.
Below is a WIP digital archive of my work collected by year. Here you will also be able to find new posts and updates on my work as I upload them which will then be archived into the year.