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The Sunday supplement: #42

The Sunday supplement: #42

Art from surveillance, some writing advice I actually like (from Nora Ephron’s mother), a favorite new podcast & other recent reads and listens, plus new stuff to anticipate

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Sep 18, 2022
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“Fruit Bowl, Book and Newspaper” (1916), Juan Gris

Belgian artist Dries Depoorter made a project called “The Follower” where he recorded public camera footage for several weeks, then scraped Instagram for photos taken near those cameras and geo-tagged.

Software compared the two and yields this:

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He also has a project called “The Flemish Scrollers,” where software automatically tags distracted Belgian politicians if they use their phones at work. How soon can we see this applied to C-SPAN?

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