White Fungus, Issue 18 Portraits of Dino, pioneering Taiwanese noise artist ‘Slopism’ finally enters the art lexicon with Aimee Walleston writing for Ocula, with a big lift from Maya Man’s little AI dancers. Robin Peckham reviews Island of Another Scene as ‘a stunning small-scale solo exhibition’ and ‘a practice of relational portraiture.’ Distribution Transformers Shen'ao Dangdai × Lumitree Six artists in 8K in downtown Taipei Oscillations Tenzin Priyadarshi × Yao Jui-Chung Island of Another Scene Photographs by Christopher Adams Slopism A definition Art-Free Diffusion How can one truly claim that an AI has been trained on what is “clearly not art” when it has surely seen a bicycle wheel and a stool, a urinal, or even a comb? #readymades Hell Diffuse Latent Eschatologies Instructions Beyond Code Prompts on Generative Art Wolfgang Tillmans said his photographs are paintings that he didn’t need to paint. Linger Madeleine Moment Part III Altar Space The Genesis of Yao Jui-Chung Moon–Block–Chain A divine cryptographic link The Trio Hall Su Hui-Yu at MoCA Taipei Bonsai & Fan Tibet in Nangang Baudrillard photographed things he did not want to comment on. A New Letter My life in plain text POSSE stands for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. I publish a “notes” feed on my website. “Elsewhere” is wherever you’re reading this. Any Warhol Bags Portraits in Plastic AI Fall/Winter A finely-tuned series starring Item Idem It's All Lighter Bending identities in style Any Warhol, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Querying hierarchies in AI tools To update an old adage: One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten are an experiment, and a hundred are a style; but a million are a dataset. 4:4 Zhan Energy Club Betty Apple, Nuit Blanche, and an Underwater Rave Betty Apple Nuit Blanche Taipei Centering Disaster Venice sinks, the seas rise, and an AI outpaints our future Launch Stage NFTs at Taipei Dangdai FAMEME Durian Duty To Be Free Giselle Chien TKG+ Vandy Rattana Screening the Monograph Trilogy Item Idem New Year's Eve in Tianmu Like a Urinal in a Nightclub Luo Jr-shin's exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts Museum All the Color in the World A project by Christopher Adams and Jun Yang at MoCA Taipei Item Idem Opening night of Taipei Biennial 2020 Taipei Popcorn After their performance at C-LAB Betty Apple Before her performance at Nuit Blanche Open Tennis After the performance at Nuit Blanche Ting-Tong Chang Installation at Longquan Market Dino Noise performance at TheCube Item Idem A Taipei Contemporary Art Center event hosted by WAGA Barricade (Empty) West Kowloon Station Barricade (Police) West Kowloon Station Tai Kwun Photo by Joi Ito Porsche 911 Front Wanchai Porsche 911 Side Wanchai Item Idem Shilin District Kaya Hanasaki Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts Yu Cheng-ta Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts Kelvin Wiegers Miles Cafe Yura Kenn Kusnar Blanco Benz Atelier 24/7 A Proposition by Michael Lin at Taipei Fine Arts Museum Lin Chuanchu At the artist's studio in Wanli Mia Liu Exhibition opening at Mind Set Art Center TJ Hughes Nour at Oui Gallery Sudden Wealth Arrangement by Item Idem The New Normal Arrangement by Item Idem Raúl Gasque At home on Yangmingshan Mediocre Techno: Lee Kit Solo Exhibition Young Designers Exhibition World Trade Center Cafe Leopold The Leopold Museum Heinz Frank Exhibition opening at Kunsthalle Wien Jun Yang Cafe Leopold Jun Yang Kunsthaus Graz Who is the artist? 藝術家是誰? Leica Qingtian Photo by Chen You-Wei Wang Mo-Lin TheCube Project Space Beat Streuli Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab Lucien After a swim Martin After a swim Blockchain and Distributed Systems Gray Area Festival 2018 was the largest collection of Blockchain based artworks ever assembled on the West Coast Naut Humon Gray Area CC Global Summit Photo by Razan Hadid Lawrence Lessig Creative Commons Global Summit The Resistance War of Computer Science Object Lessons of History Go to the Source Linking each webpage to its code What happens when you blog as a coder? The uptick of static site generators Jailing Bassel The people who are in real danger never leave their countries Joi Ito Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills Fred Benenson Kickstarter Philipp Schmidt MIT Media Lab Saravuth Inn Union Square Matt Hope Ace Gallery Staircase Monk Bar Fake Studio Caochangdi Christopher Doyle East Hotel Zelda Sanlitun Lee Kit Taipei Contemporary Art Center on Andong St Weak Soundsystem Custom soundsystem designed by Matt Hope Shao Yanpeng DJ set in Caochangdi Jun Yang Insomnia Cafe FREESOULS Captured and Released by Joi Ito Ars Electronica Photo by Joi Ito