max bonhomme

@maxbonhomme.bsky.social

Follow https://mastodon.design/@maxbonhomme teaching design history and visual culture at the University of Strasbourg Writes on photomontage, graphic design, AI-generated images, popular print culture, etc. Part of the team at https://transbordeur.ch/

L'administration Trump proscrit l'usage de la typo Calibri car celle-ci est plus lisible pour les personnes qui ont des handicaps liés à la vue ou à la lecture, ce qui est "DEI" — diversity-equity-inclusion.

Typeface of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman

Memo from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program’

theguardian.com

It's out !! The history of political photomontage throughout the 20th century and from an international perspective. The exhibition is also coming soon : opening on the 19th of November at La Contemporaine (Nanterre, France) anamosa.fr/livre/couper...

Couper, coller, imprimer - ANAMOSA

Très richement illustré, ce livre propose un panorama international de l'histoire du photomontage, sur l'ensemble du XXe siècle, en articulant histoire politique et histoire des formes graphiques.

anamosa.fr

This essay is a summary of the ideas about #PlatformRealism that I've been developing on this platform over the past few years. Reading it now, many months after I wrote it, feels a little strange: I think most of the ideas are valid, but it is only now that their implications have become clear 1/

Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Finally online: My essay on #PlatformRealism for #Transbordeur. There couldn't be a more appropriate day to publish it, even though when I wrote it last year I couldn't have imagined the extent to which the aesthetics of AI slop would become the basis of a new #MemeFascism

Blaming AI was just a way to hype it #technodeterminism ‘“It's all about social signaling…It's not AI. … ” says Bruce Schneier, … “It's not like we had perfect elections throughout our history and now suddenly there’s AI and it's all misinformation.” www.wired.com/story/the-ye... #philtech

The Year of the AI Election Wasn’t Quite What Everyone Expected

Deepfakes were nothing like the political force in 2024 that many feared—but that doesn’t mean that generative AI didn’t profoundly affect elections all over the world.

wired.com

this evening at the Centre Pompidou : Peter Szendy and Antonio Somaini on the image economy and digital capitalism. A talk organised as part of the exhibition "Image Capital" curated by Estelle Blaschke and Armin Linke, on view in Paris until February 26 be there 🫵

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