Archive - On Looking

Tattoos, the State, and the Powers of Illegibility

When seeing like a state means everyone looks guilty

Apr 24 •

December 2024

Is Luigi immorally hot?

Or why it is supposed to be immoral to ogle a criminal and how humor makes visible the invisible absurdity of justice.

Dec 26, 2024 •

September 2024

The AI doppelgänger experiment – Part 2: Copying style, extracting value

💰 On training computers to see like capitalists

Sep 29, 2024 •

July 2024

The wisdom of hot men making shitty art

💪 A look at the heroes of a post Algorithmic art world

Jul 23, 2024 •

May 2024

The AI doppelgänger experiment – Part 1: The training

👯 On training my own AI to steal illustrators’ styles

May 15, 2024 •

April 2024

March 2024

Thread: How to lose your style?

👀 Hello dear On Lookers!

Mar 26, 2024 •

Letters from the field #4 - Work Work Work

Thinking about work in an illustrator studio in Brooklyn

Mar 18, 2024 •

Image-Event — Kate Middleton's photo

Images, truth, and post-AI ways of seeing

Mar 12, 2024 •

January 2024

Thread: Quitting illustration

Hello everyone, A comment on my last letter brought up the question of the sustainability of a career in illustration. This echoed many observat…

Jan 15, 2024 •

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