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.
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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The Kennedy Center was named after my uncle, President John F Kennedy. It was named in his honor. He was a man who was interested in the arts, interested in culture, interested in education, language, history. He brought the arts into the White House, and he and my Aunt Jackie
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Words matter. To the extent that actions speak louder than words, what we say to each other has consequences. Con Jobs exposes how repetition and exaggeration become instruments of distortion and control.
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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The machine is working non-stop. The human has limitations. The Con Jobs continue.
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Every hour on the hour. Algorithmic absurdity you can depend on.
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Excerpts from the whitepaper. 4.2 Accumulation as Form Over time, the steady addition of hourly texts produces not a narrative but a density of linguistic residue. Each fragment contributes to a growing archive of distortion in which coherence is continually promised and
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Comparing ChatGPT and CERA in the creative realm? Let’s get into it: - ChatGPT is all about speed, providing quick insights and suggestions at a moment’s notice—great for the urgent stuff. - CERA provides a structured mentorship experience, focusing on holistic growth, with peer
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Con Jobs constraint based writing is rooted in historical literary tradition. The Oulipo (short for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle — “Workshop of Potential Literature”) was a group of writers and mathematicians in France in the 1960s. They believed that imposing constraints —
Oulipian techniques (lipograms, n+7, snowballs) pioneered generative constraint as a creative engine; later, conceptual writing foregrounded system over subject. Con Jobs borrows this ethos but substitutes a contemporary constraint—the vocabulary of fact-checked falsehoods—and
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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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The homepage renders each new Con Job at the historical tempo of deception—one phrase every sixty minutes— Rally mode compresses that 100x, translating years of distortion into a continuous chant. Together they form a living record of language’s corruption in real time.
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the mad poem-annotating dash took place in 3 batches. first, @collectionist + @jeannievu’s LACMA dinner. next, AB setup day. then, Untitled opening, where @JacCourtney @LadyCactoid @mattmedved @artechouse @kdean @jamiegourlay @cryptocactoid + Hans Ulrich Obrist took the pen 🙏
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Con Jobs, opens an intriguing visual and conceptual space by using algorithmic processes to distort and reconstitute text. Absurdity has a powerful role here, acting almost like a lens that clarifies rather than obscures. When misinformation is transformed into absurdist poetry,
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cheers to @refikanadol who annotated my poem, Training Data, commissioned by @ArtBasel @opensea to commemorate Zero 10. mint his—or others—for free while the fair is open in Miami via link below.
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Moving my creative practice and future projects to @BarrySuttonLab. Join me there as it unfolds. 🤟🏼
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"Affordability is a con job." – Donald J. Trump The original language often sounds more surreal than anything a machine could invent. Con Jobs continues.
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