Readings

If it Doesn’t Exist on the Internet, It Doesn’t Exist

Kenneth Goldsmith, 2005

If an Asian American Author Doesn’t Have a Wikipedia Page, Do They Exist?

The Outline / Karen K. Ho, 2018

Writers and Publishers in Singapore Reject a Government Plan to Train AI on Their Work

Rest of World / Nicholas Yong, 2024

The Garden of Forking Paths

Jorge Luis Borges, 1941

Is Linear Perspective Necessary?

Jocelyn Penny Small, 2009

Black Gooey Universe

American Artist, 2018

Vernacular Web 2

Olia Lialina, 2007

Accumulate · Aggregate · Destroy: Database Fever and the Archival Web

Katrina Sluis, 2010

In Defense of the Poor Image

Hito Steyerl, 2009

ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

Ted Chiang, 2023

Challenging the Algorithms of Oppression

Safiya Noble, 2016

Infinite Versioning

David Reinfurt, 2014

Designing in Liquid Times: Generative Graphic Design in an Age of Uncertainty

Marlies Peeters, 2016

On Weaponised Design

Cade Diem, 2018

Sometimes it Looks like a Duck, Sometimes it Looks like a Rabbit

Jack Balkin and Dan Michaelson, facilitated by Rob Mathews, 2012