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April 2012
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Anthony Masure, « Braun/Apple, des survivances paradoxales », Reel-Virtuel.com, no 3, « Archéologie des nouvelles technologies », avril 2012
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Si les appareils font époque, leur invention précède leur découverte. La nouveauté est recouverte de formes anciennes, qui permettent de faire accepter socialement l’innovation. Nous discuterons ces hypothèses en étudiant le design des objets Apple, qui reprennent les formes élaborées par Dieter Rams chez Braun dès 1950. Comment penser ces survivances paradoxales ? Faut-il y voir un échec des nouvelles technologies à formuler un vocabulaire esthétique singulier ?
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December 2019
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Version enriched with a chapter of the essay Design and digital humanities (2017), translation from French by Jesse Cohn], Berlin, Interface Critique, dir. Florian Hadler, Daniel Irrgang, Alice Soiné, no 2, “Navigating the Human”
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Télécharger l’article en PDF Voir l’article [En ligne > «Human, All Too Human is the monument to a crisis. It calls itself a book for free spirits: almost every sentence is the manifestation of a victory – I used it to liberate myself from things that did not belong to my nature. Idealism is one of them: the title says “where you see ideal things, I see – human, oh, only all too […]Notions
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October 2019
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Conférence au colloque international « L’art tout contre la machine », Paris, Collège des Bernardins
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L’histoire du design est traversée de tensions entre l’économie de marché et la recherche de dimensions échappant à la rentabilité et à l’utilité. Deux voies possibles s’ouvrent au designer : ignorer les mutations techniques et se laisser conduire par elles, ou y prendre part et avérer ces « poussées techniques » (Pierre-Damien Huyghe) dans des directions qui lui sembleront soutenables. Comment penser un rapport à la machine qui ne soit pas seulement de l’ordre du « par » ou du « contre », mais qui invite à « avec » ?
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May 2023
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Anthony Masure, Océane Juvin, Guillaume Helleu, « CryptoKit, a semantic map of blockchain technology », communication au colloque ATypI, Paris, 13 mai 2023
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The CryptoKit project provides a visual mapping of blockchain technology and Web3 protocols to make them accessible to a wide audience. It includes an open source typeface of more than 200 pictograms of key blockchain terms. When paired with IBM Plex, these icons can be set up in didactic diagrams on the dedicated website www.cryptokit.ch.
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May 2021
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Contribution à l’ouvrage collectif Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities, dir. Virginia Kuhn et Anke Finger, éditions OpenBook.
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How do these publication practices of online PhD thesis, which are not yet widespread in the conduct of a thesis doctorate, modify the relationship between the direction and the writing of the thesis? How can they open up new research directions while taking into account current standards? What dissemination and communication opportunities do they provide? How do they change the way research is done?
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September 2022
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Paper written with Guillaume Helleu for the journal AOC, which appeared in September 2022. Translated from French by Aviva Cashmira Kakar.
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NFTs (non-fungible tokens) appeared in 2017. They are tamper-proof decentralized digital certificates which have gained fame because of their appropriation by the art world. NFTs have attracted a great deal of controversy, and are frequently accused of being speculative, useless and polluting. We propose to examine these polemics, founded for the most part, in order to show that other approaches are possible. In fact, artistic applications are merely one link in the chain, and NFTs cannot be reduced to their mere visible aspect, they require a wider examination of their value systems, distribution chains, and methods of governance.
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March 2023
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Anthony Masure, Artificial Design: Creation Versus Machine Learning, Geneva, HEAD – Publishing, coll. “Manifestes,” 2023
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In the early 2020s, driven by progress in “artificial intelligence”, programs such as GPT-3, DALL E, Midjourney or Disco Diffusion made it possible to generate images from text instructions. Although these productions often only imitate existing data and lack diversity, media debates tend to focus on the replacement of humans by the machine. In doing so, they screen the essential question: what is the spectrum of current and potential implications of machine learning for design practices?
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