{"id":37194,"date":"2012-04-15T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/if-the-new-aesthetic-is-going-to-be-the-narrator\/"},"modified":"2012-04-15T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T14:44:00","slug":"if-the-new-aesthetic-is-going-to-be-the-narrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/if-the-new-aesthetic-is-going-to-be-the-narrator\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If the New Aesthetic is going to be the narrator of that story, it needs some focus. [\u2026] Sterling\u2019s critique is not subtle: stop gawking sci-fi robot-vision screen captures, slapping labels on them and presenting it as an aesthetic. That inclination is a natural first step towards understanding. In order to make meaningful progress, creatives need to invest in learning how these systems function and take a critical stance. Doing this will require closing Google Chrome for a few hours and picking up a book on machine vision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>James George, \u201cThe New Aesthetic Needs New Wranglers\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh snap!<\/p>\n<p>George goes on to say that \u201cFor the New Aesthetic to have a critical influence, the gap between artist and technologist needs to be bridged.\u201d BUT HASN\u2019T IT? Excuse my French but that\u2019s some serious C. P. Snow shit.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/jenlindblad.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">jenlindblad<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the New Aesthetic is going to be the narrator of that story, it needs some focus. [\u2026] Sterling\u2019s critique is not subtle: stop gawking sci-fi robot-vision screen captures, slapping labels on them and presenting it as an aesthetic. That inclination is a natural first step towards understanding. In order to make meaningful progress, creatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9FU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}