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Mark Vallen
Personal blog · art-for-a-change.com/blogculturepolitics
Mark Vallen writes MARK VALLEN'S "ART FOR A CHANGE", a personal blog at art-for-a-change.com about culture and politics. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Truth About Babylon Berlin (2018)”. The last post was in 2009, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Mark Vallen's art-for-a-change pages as examples of surveillance-themed and state-propaganda posters, such as the "Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes" poster page, and a Gemini image-bias post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Artist Mark Vallen's gallery of socially conscious artworks.
Most-linked posts?
- The Truth About Babylon Berlin (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-04
- /News/eyes.htm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-08-04
What Hacker News says?
I think the reality inspired the satire. E.g. the (also very 1984) "SECURE BENEATH THE WATCHFUL EYES" poster from 2002: https://art-for-a-change.com/News/eyes.htm And the banned 1997 Conservative election campaign posters: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/guardianwitness-blo...
Comment linking /News/eyes.htm
on “Visiting Scarfolk, the most spectacular dystopia of the 1970s (2016)”Submitted The Truth About Babylon Berlin (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionfine-tuning is not learning, it's controlling the response and you see it's absurd effects in countless examples where in the name of being politically correct the "weights" have been modified also for the past. (classic example of Gemini's German Nazi "representative" photo or even more: https://art-for-a-change.com/blog/2024/02/gemini-artificial-... )
Comment linking /blog/2024/02/gemini-artificial-intelligence-danger-failure.html
on “What Does It Mean to Learn?”Submitted The Truth About Babylon Berlin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt reminds me of the London "Secure Beneath The Watchful Eyes" poster campaign from a few years ago: http://www.art-for-a-change.com/News/eyes.htm Either somebody is having an Orwellian joke, or somebody is frighteningly tone-deaf. I mean, even "Patriot Act" probably seemed like a good idea at the time (as did my personal favourite, Operation Infinite Justice), but Perfect Citizen is just weird.
Comment linking /News/eyes.htm
on “NSA Hooking Up Ominously Named 'Perfect Citizen' To Watch The Internet”The universe conspired and I randomly stumbled on this, which should allay your fears about commoditization of art. That ship sailed a long (long) time ago .. "The Washington Post—you know, where democracy dies in darkness, let the cat out of the bag with this remark: “The record sale was set as investors seek out safe-haven investments, such as art, amid uncertainty in global financial markets fueled by Russia’s in…
Comment linking /blog/2022/05/andy-warhol-is-still-dead.html
on “Ask HN: Viability of an anti-AI social movement?”http://www.art-for-a-change.com/News/eyes.htm
Comment linking /News/eyes.htm
on “Britain seen from above”
