Vulture Magazine Issue 08: Artificial Intelligence

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Issue 08

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RAF SIMONS DOVER STREET MARKET JENS HESSE NENDO ACHILLES ION GABRIEL JOSHUA PRINCE-RAMUS

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Ever evolving, Phoebe Philo’s collection for the season saw her imbuing the usual soft, sculptural silhouettes of her clothes with a sense of lurid artificiality: holographic skirts, bright fuchsia bags and shoes, and neon-green accessories with a subtle reference to tribal necklaces, perhaps a run up to the influence behind her Fall collection. Nonetheless, all the Céline-isms that women have come to love are strongly present in the Pre-Fall looks: trousers that trail beyond the heel; high-necked sweaters; ambiguous shapes; and heavy, oversized coats that play off a newer addition of ephemeral, knife-pleated sheer skirts— an eloquent, never-ending dialogue between an array of materials and fabrics that has come to typify Céline.

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CLIFFORD LOH

LESLEY C.

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MELISSA YEO

JADE L. (MANNEQUIN)

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BETWEEN THE LINES

What vision of ourselves, the world, or of god, do we find in cyberspace?

Jens Hesse paints a vision that remains defiantly human.

“The medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1964. He noted that when we use a tool that that stretches our capability, it also modifies, or amputates, some aspect of that ability. The question he posed was not what technology could do for us, but what it was doing to us.

Forty years on, is there anything different, then, about the contemporary self? Every artist and thinker since has been critical of the 'self' streamed through digital powers.

Through much of these run a thread of unreality and impermanence. Sherry Turkel, for instance, has called virtual reality a “heady world (of people) performing themselves” online by constantly updating Facebook profiles and tweets to show an ideal version of ourselves. Wild.

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