Episode 20 - Beauty
How can machines decide what is beautiful, and what is a beautiful machine? How did teen girls change phone hardware forever? How has Instagram changed our physical spaces? Plus, we talk about the many uses of YouTube make-up tutorials: for defiance, play, celebration, and … secret security lessons. And we celebrate how the Internet shows us there are #ManyKindsofHot
References
Dress-Coding; Arabelle Sicardi’s Study of Fashion vs. Technology, Weaving and Code
Most Important Ugly: What Happens When Makeup, Identity, And Art Intersect, Kelsey Haight,
Selfie culture, the male gaze, and other moral panics, Simcha Fisher
The Year That Skin Care Became a Coping Mechanism, Jia Tolentino
“video games, football, sex and fascism, smokey eye tutorial” Combabe Clem, YouTube
Skincare and opsec forever. Addie Wagenknecht
“Automating Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence and Image Culture”. Lev Manovich
Bot looks like a lady, Laura Dattaro
Gendering A Warbot Gender, Sex And The Implications For The Future Of War, Heather M. Roff
Fashioning identity; Ageism in fashion and role of tech, Highsnobiety podcast
Vancouver Mural Festival: The Present Is A Gift For Developers.
How to hide from Big Brother: Meet the artists and writers using masks and makeup to thwart government surveillance, Ana Cecilia Alvarez
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Marianela Ramos Capelo: @undazedandsuch