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''The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth –<br /> | ''The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth –''<br /> | ||
it is the truth which conceals that there is none.<br /> | ''it is the truth which conceals that there is none.''<br /> | ||
The simulacrum is true''.<br />– Jean Baudrillard, ''Simulacres et Simulation'', 1981<br /> | ''The simulacrum is true''.<br />– Jean Baudrillard, ''Simulacres et Simulation'', 1981<br /> | ||
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In a world where machines have become more than capable of autonomously generating (seemingly) credible newspaper articles, danceable techno tracks, adorable cat memes and plausible Nicolas Cage videos, the ability to algorithmically produce and transform digital media forms – so-called deepfakes – has arrived on the desktops and devices of millions. This project module focuses not on the demise of the distinction between real and rendered, but on a future where this distinction becomes increasingly blurred and irrelevant.<br /> | In a world where machines have become more than capable of autonomously generating (seemingly) credible newspaper articles, danceable techno tracks, adorable cat memes and plausible Nicolas Cage videos, the ability to algorithmically produce and transform digital media forms – so-called deepfakes – has arrived on the desktops and devices of millions. This project module focuses not on the demise of the distinction between real and rendered, but on a future where this distinction becomes increasingly blurred and irrelevant.<br /> | ||