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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There are 4 months left of Moments of the Unknown daily auctions and podcasts! As we wrap up 2025 in a couple weeks I want to thank everyone who has been involved in collecting the artworks and been a special guest on my daily show. This couldn’t be done without you all.
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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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4BYSIX charity auction—starting bid £500–ending 8am EST 12/11 (piece inexpensively ships from UK in tube). https://t.co/oXTTpqu3sa The organization works with contemporary artists to sell artworks made from 100% waste materials, using proceeds to invest in community projects
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As Con Jobs keeps generating, I’m reminded how political language drifts when it’s freed from context. Strange alignments emerge, unexpected juxtapositions take shape, and the rhetoric reveals its own instincts. You start to see the architecture underneath — the myths, the loops,
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As Con Jobs keeps generating, I’m reminded how political language drifts when it’s freed from context. Strange alignments emerge, unexpected juxtapositions take shape, and the rhetoric reveals its own instincts. You start to see the architecture underneath — the myths, the loops,
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I’ve been immersed in Con Jobs for months now, watching its language engine unfold in real time. What continues to fascinate me is how the system reveals the inner mechanics of political rhetoric — the looping structures, the sudden collisions, the accidental clarity that breaks
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