Social Photography X

Presented against the backdrop of the twin meltdowns of both women's rights and international policy with regards to crimes of humanity against the lesser half of the world population, this sheepish "I'm sorry" comes at a time when the progressive reputation enjoyed by feminism might warrant some skepticism. While a divorce dissolves into hysteria, ostensibly due to the malicious effects of a “digital ladies room”, in the same week, a British aristocrat, after being left to foot the bill on her boyfriends sex crimes, will be handcuffed to him for the rest of her life.

Propped up by fawning news stories that celebrate personal identity and privacy over contingency or logic, the insidious effect of the world wrought by more than half the population dictates as much as my behavior as I'll allow. Embracing professionalism as a hatecrime as subjected to behavioral experiments, reproductive coercion and perpetual tracking, our “war against women” is largely invisible to us, until virally reproduced as GDP.

'Untitled Film Still' (2023) was made by Apple in California and executed with the same calculator used to execute moneyshots. The photograph was solicited by carriage trade to benefit the non-commercial function of the gallery. If photography is the go-for-broke game of history, what is artificial intelligence when capital trades on a heartbeat?

Cellular photographs dispatch to Social Photography X don't dispatch to carriage trades online art interface but to the in person community of the gallery. My goal was not to promote a single artwork by exploiting its distribution at an accessible price point but to take its measure on a public health concern. This is not a conceptual thing but a

I was solicited by carriage trade for a work of cellular photography to benefit the gallery's non-commercial mission. I was also solicited outside. What at first seemed like sending a bottle of wine over to the next table became an act of social contingency with gaslighting and intimidation reflecting the respectability politics at work in the art world. After Covid-19, many of those "called out" as offenders returned, and, in 2020, those "called out" as offenders left a gulf of sanity between real and fake abuse. As the societal consequences of social media became more clear, what constitutes violence against women became less.

I extracted Lopez' cell phone photos from a subfolder synced to a parent repository on A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner's pornographic film, Community Action Center (2012), the conditionthe content of which is sexually explicit and therefore constitutive of an explicit context for its recognition as a porn liberation romance.

The film that 'Untitled Film Still' is a project-based course that was held at the CUNY Graduate Center by BHQFU in 2009: "Art History with Benefits". The lecture-performance that enacted the romance, figuratively and literally, between cultural funding and sex became the basis for a 2014 course dealing with the reproductive apparatus of the art institution as it was enacted by women.

If the object of illumination, in 2009, was the nepotism that drives the transfer and sale of works of art through the exogamy of audiences, in 2014, the brotherhood that begot the BHQFU's radicalization of institutional critique at the peak of the platform economy would be its undoing.

reserved for reciprocal penetration.

The transfer of the work of art through the mechanisms made available by the carriage trade online art auction interface felt like an appropriate way to determine whether the woman whose cell phone photos were shared via my experimental pornhub had actually consented to being part of this explicit community of images. By "this explicit community of images" I mean the public datasets that delegate my submission to the exhibition, Social Photography X, to the socioeconomic function of public art and the non-commercial mission of the gallery.

SX-ED was a workshop that used A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner's Community Action Center (2012) as a vehicle of consent. The 69-min adult home movie is explicitly womyn-centric and queer. It is as uncomfortable to watch as it is erotic.

CAC is a passionate, immoderate and shockingly violent research date with a community of queer actors and dykes that get off on the exploitation of an audience.

As the economic, sexual and spiritual war on woman undergoes iteration, a vulnerability of sorts, perhaps the most important feature to the carriage trade online interface, is inextricable from the critical support that more than one man on the wall makes necessary. I wanted to demonstrate how a simple use of digital technology could foster and expand an in-person community so important to the one in four women involved in Social Photography who have ever needed a representation that competes with power.

Like Cindy Sherman's film stills, 'Untitled Film Still 00' is a work of artificiality over professionalism or mastery. Yet a grotesque mediocrity seems to have prevailed in its reception, which up until now has been non-consensual. While the impressive advances of cell phone technology rival a complacency that is even more embarrassing, offering explanation and prescription with little compromise in image quality, the orthodoxy of the hate crime seems to be confined to the surface.

Mechanical interpretation happens when we make one decision or another based on the symbols we encounter. I could interpret the personal and intimate nature of Francesca's cell phone photos a puzzling and unintentional coincidence relative to the exhibition that was well underway by the time her pictures were non-consensually leaked into my operating system. But a "progressive anarchism" might treat it as an extension of the public datasets and private parts that socially alienate an image from the process of execution that computationally defines it.

> Glass is helpful in socially alienating buyer from producer, thereby concealing the product’s connection to another’s real labor and allowing it to acquire exchange value over and above its use value. (Dan Graham)

DALLE is based on a diffusion model that identifies latent structure of a dataset by modeling visual information at low concentration. DALLE's neural network is trained to denoise images by learning to reverse the diffusion process. 'Untitled Film Still 00' is not a reference to Cindy Sherman but a diffusion of Cindy Sherman into the fiction of representation that is the figure of woman. Meaning: artificial intelligence learns to see by training itself on blurred images that are refined by algorithmic processes of interpretation. 'Untitled Film Still 00' responds to the legislation of gendered difference by reflecting upon the capacity to give birth as it is mediated through the cellular image.

CAC asks whether or not the nature of the medium of pornography is heterosexual. This film and its implementation as a through BHQFU's SXED program was spearheaded by myself and another woman was a politically engaged course on the mutual penetration of the human nervous system through art.

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