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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These falsehoods aren’t just about persuasion; they are about exhausting us, bending language until truth itself is broken.
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High noon. The linguistics machine autonomously generates one new CON JOB every hour on the hour, mirroring the historical cadence of lies in the Trump era.
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In an era where language is weaponized and misinformation floods public discourse, Con Jobs reframes political falsehoods as raw material for art. Using generative processes, Sutton recombines and reconfigures these documented statements into new formations that echo the cadence
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This space is getting so weird. It’s making CON JOBS feeling less absurd. Or more.
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We just wrapped our panel with @RDToTheMoon for the @BaliArtRes artists, ngl, it was profound, inspiring, and deeply thoughtful 🖖🏼
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These falsehoods aren't just about persuasion; they are about exhausting us, bending language until truth itself is broken. Con Jobs isn't satire in the conventional sense—it's about the system of misinformation, the industrial production of lies, and what happens to culture when
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Both artwork and archive, CON JOBS exposes the machinery of untruth while preserving its artifacts for future study. It asks how we measure the cultural cost of disinformation when the lie itself has become the most persistent art form of our time.
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Today in Bali, Cera crossed from theory into practice — her first live session with artists shaping what mentorship can become. Cera is designed to extend reflection, helping artists articulate intention and stay connected to their process. The beginning of something we’ve only
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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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 syntax, rhythm, and sentiment into unique textual forms. Each output is
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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 syntax, rhythm, and sentiment into unique textual forms. Each output is
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CON JOBS is a generative artwork built from the corpus of falsehoods — one new phrase every sixty minutes, the historical cadence of deception during the Trump era. ENTER THE RALLY →
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bitcoin took 15 years to reach mainstream awareness. blockchain art will take a similar time. we may intuit which artists or series will matter, but we really have no clue. you can’t force history in the present. there isn’t just one ‘space,’ but a few subcultures unfolding
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