Barry Sutton 🤟🏼
@barrylsutton
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Artist, educator. Chair, Fashion Photo Dept at SVA. Evidence #028 now in the collection of the Francisco Carolinum. Founder @cera_ai.
New York, NY
Joined January 2011
The artist's path is rarely a straight line. I studied music and graphic design in college before discovering the camera. That discovery led to a 30+ yr career shooting photographs including icons NWA and Taylor Swift before their careers took off. My work as appeared in Vogue,
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5pm EST CON JOB. The homepage renders each new Con Job at the historical tempo of deception—one phrase every sixty minutes—while the Rally compresses that rhythm a hundredfold, translating years of distortion into a continuous chant. Together they form a living record of
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Con Jobs has now passed 900 autonomous generations of absurdist poetry. Beneath its surface, CON JOBS functions as an autonomous language system trained on a verified dataset of more than 30,000 documented Trump falsehoods. Rule-based recombination reconstructs fragments of
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Con Jobs has now passed 900 autonomous generations of absurdist poetry. Beneath its surface, CON JOBS functions as an autonomous language system trained on a verified dataset of more than 30,000 documented Trump falsehoods. Rule-based recombination reconstructs fragments of
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I’ve used Cera for each of my last two projects and it’s hard to describe how helpful it’s been It’s pushed me to think in new ways, asked better questions than I expected and given me the words to use when I was struggling to convey my aims Highly recommended
CERA Memberships are coming. A small preview of what’s unfolding.
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CERA Memberships are coming. A small preview of what’s unfolding.
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Con Jobs is a corpus-constrained work of computational poetics that recombines only the words found in publicly documented false statements attributed to Donald J. Trump to produce hourly, auditably absurd one-line poems.
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Con Jobs. Excerpts from the White Paper. 2.1 Constraint-Based Poetry & Conceptual Writing Oulipian techniques (lipograms, n+7, snowballs) pioneered generative constraint as a creative engine; later, conceptual writing foregrounded system over subject. Con Jobs borrows this
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@BaliArtRes @barrylsutton Really excited to see what everyone creates with Cera by their side. 🫶🏻✨⚡️
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Lecture by Cera AI and @barrylsutton
https://t.co/32ePsay0iD
Today we are hosting our very first lecture on @cera_ai for the residency artists. Cera is an artist's quiet companion, an additional layer helping them to navigate the creative waters and focus on what's important. That is: 🔹 Better intention articulation 🔹 Help with
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Disinformation thrives on repetition, ambiguity, and theatrical confidence. Con Jobs treats this not as a crisis to solve with yet another classifier, but as raw material for constraint-based art. By limiting generation to the exact vocabulary present in documented falsehoods—and
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CON JOBS White Paper now public on the project site. ABSTRACT Con Jobs is a corpus-constrained work of computational poetics that recombines only the words found in publicly documented false statements attributed to Donald J. Trump to produce hourly, auditably absurd one-line
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In the days after the elections this month, the president struggled to craft a coherent and consistent message on the issue. He called affordability a “new word” and said that Republicans had not talked enough about it. He then blasted it as “con job” by Democrats. Eventually he
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CON JOBS is a generative artwork, built from more than 30,000 falsehoods spoken by Donald Trump over the past decade—an ever-expanding corpus of political language that continues to shape the present. The project treats these statements as raw material, transforming them through
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These falsehoods aren’t just about persuasion; they are about exhausting us, bending language until truth itself is broken.
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