FYI #133
Avatar: a curatorial introduction, via AGNSW. New exhibition open from June 20.
Gabriel Rolfe, Australian writer, teacher and researcher, wins the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize
Understanding the Luddites in the age of AI, by Brian Merchant. If we are to truly understand the impacts of mass automation technologies like AI, and why there’s a vociferous and fast-growing backlash to it, then it’s crucial that we rethink our dismissal of the Luddites. We must understand their actual history; why they turned to machine breaking and what they really fought for.
Launch of the new website for The Rumpus, literary magazine
How An Architect Couple Live Small In a 41sqm/441sqft Milan Apartment Designed For Family Life, via Never Too Small
Dave Eggers, in conversation with Rick Rubin on Tetragrammaton. Eggers talks about an interesting sounding new art space in San Francisco, Art + Water.
Pattern Recognition, essay by Sara Hendren, via Comment
Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “After the Comeback”, New Yorker cover after the Knicks win. I enjoyed watching the team’s ceremony at City Hall.