Tag: media
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Remembering Asher Remy-Toledo, Media Art Luminary
Obituary The Colombian-born cultural producer, who died in February at age 62, cultivated community and experimentation for New York City artists, including me. Asher Remy-Toledo at Creative Tech Week at the Red Door, Hyphen Hub, circa 2013–15 (all images courtesy the Hyphen Hub Archive, unless otherwise noted) Asher Remy-Toledo, a beloved New York cultural producer, read more
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Iranian Media Reports Damage to Chehel Sotoun, a UNESCO-Listed Palace
Chehel Sotoun, part of a UNESCO World Heritage landmark in the Iranian city ofIsfahan, was damaged following airstrikes in the area, according to Iranian state media. The report comes one week afterGolestan PalaceinTehransuffered significant damage from aerial bombardment linked to US-Israeli strikes on Iran. A roughly minute-long video posted to X by Iranian state media read more
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Travel News, Guides & Tips for Global Adventures
I’m sure the creators of the internet never thought of a time when phrases like doomscrolling, social media addiction, and bed rot would be mainstream. But here we are. If you’ve ever jolted yourself awake by dropping your phone on your face at 1am, or instinctively reached for it in a room full of read more
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Ulysses Jenkins, Video Art Trailblazer with an Eye on Mass Media, Has Died at 79
Ulysses Jenkins, a muralist, performer, and trailblazer of video art, has died at 79. His death was confirmed by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, his hometown and first collaborator in a lifelong examination of the connective and destructive potential of mass media. The museum mounted a retrospective of Jenkins’s work in 2022, titled “Without read more
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From children’s colouring books to official portals: EU under fire for social media links
Corporate watchdog Ekō has today filed a formal complaint with the European Ombudsman, challenging the European Commission and other EU institutions over their systematic promotion of US-based social media platforms on official europa.eu websites, including Elon Musk’s “X”. The complaint argues that prominent “Follow us” and “Share this page” buttons — accompanied by the logos read more
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Fal raises $140M Series D to power the next era of real-time generative media
Real-time generative media platform fal today announced a $140 million Series D financing, bringing its funding to over $400 million. Türkiye-founded, fal is an infrastructure layer for real-time AI-generated content, enabling developers and enterprises to run any model—open-source, private, or commercial—through a single, ultra-low-latency serverless API. The platform automatically scales globally and eliminates DevOps overhead, read more
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