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Senate Republicans share an AI-generated video falsely depicting Chuck Schumer saying on camera comments he made in a print interview on the government shutdown (Thomas Beaumont/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/schumer-art

GOP uses AI-generated video in anti-Schumer ad
Senate Republican campaign leaders are using artificial intelligence-generated video to falsely depict Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer appearing to say on camera comments he made in a print publication interview about the political impacts of the partial government shutdown. The 30-second digital ad from the National Republican Senate Committee features the Democratic New York senator appearing to say on camera about the shutdown, now in its 3rd week, “Every day gets better for us.” …

Comcast sues to invalidate a Washington state law that taxes online ad services, set to take effect in October; major ad industry groups also oppose the law (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/408…

Comcast Sues Over Washington State Tax On Digital Ads
Comcast has sued to invalidate a new Washington state law that imposes a tax on online advertising services such as creating and placing digital ads, analyzing their performance and planning online campaigns.

Digital Father, for who art thou in Cyber-Heaven, give me the strength to reprogram my #dotnet muscle memory for this upcoming change.
Screw it, Digital Devil can probably help too. 😈

If you get an invite to this generative art software engineering call, note that if you submit something and it gets accepted, as far as I can tell it would cost you $3000 in open access fees... unless you want it to languish behind a paywall (you'd then only be allowed to share an unedited draft, and even then would have to advertise the paywall on it). They don't seem to want to make this clear in their call.

We are thrilled to take part in this year's Ars Electronica Festival with multiple arts installations and interventions, conveying what digital identity is and why everybody should care: https://ars.electronica.art/panic/en/view/digital-shadows-22a38…

Digital Shadows | Ars Electronica Festival 2025: Panic
Digital Shadows confronts visitors with their digital self—copied, measured, analyzed. An experiment on data power, visibility, and control in the digital age.

Approaching the Source of Symbol Grounding with Confluent Reductions of Abstract Meaning Representation Directed Graphs
Nicolas Goulet, Alexandre Blondin Mass\'e, Moussa Abdendi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11068

Approaching the Source of Symbol Grounding with Confluent Reductions of Abstract Meaning Representation Directed Graphs
Abstract meaning representation (AMR) is a semantic formalism used to represent the meaning of sentences as directed acyclic graphs. In this paper, we describe how real digital dictionaries can be embedded into AMR directed graphs (digraphs), using state-of-the-art pre-trained large language models. Then, we reduce those graphs in a confluent manner, i.e. with transformations that preserve their circuit space. Finally, the properties of these reduces digraphs are analyzed and discussed in relat…

Plant-Centric Metaverse: A Biocentric-Creation Framework for Ecological Art and Digital Symbiosis
Ze Gao, Mengyao Guo, Zheng Wang, Xiaolin Zhang, Sihuang Man
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04391

Plant-Centric Metaverse: A Biocentric-Creation Framework for Ecological Art and Digital Symbiosis
Digital ecological art represents an emergent frontier where biological media converge with virtual environments. This study examines the paradigm shift from anthropocentric to plant-centered artistic narratives within the metaverse, contextualizing how digital platforms transform ecological expression. However, current frameworks fail to systematically guide artists in leveraging plant agency for digital symbiosis that transcends human-centered creation. We propose the Biocentric-Creation Tran…

Oh wow I just found the Web page of a photographer focusing on flowers.
This style is adorable!
#photography

LUCY KETCHUM
Fine art floral photography by Lucy Ketchum. I offer private mentoring sessions to photographers of all levels. In my shop you can find my floral prints for sale as well as greeting cards and a few digital products to download like wallpapers for your computer and phone.

Moody Urbanity - Passer By 🚶‍♂️
情绪化城市 - 路人 🚶‍♂️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Making Effective Decisions: Machine Learning and the Ecogame in 1970
Catherine Mason
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07027 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07027

Making Effective Decisions: Machine Learning and the Ecogame in 1970
This paper considers Ecogame, an innovative art project of 1970, whose creators believed in a positive vision of a technological future; an understanding, posited on cybernetics, of a future that could be participatory via digital means, and therefore more democratised. Using simulation and early machine learning techniques over a live network, Ecogame combined the power of visual art with cybernetic concepts of adaptation, feedback, and control to propose that behaviour had implications for th…

"The Bib Record in the Age of Digital Reproduction" https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/135
"Taking both structural and thematic inspiration from Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanic…

MUTE-DSS: A Digital-Twin-Based Decision Support System for Minimizing Underwater Radiated Noise in Ship Voyage Planning
Akash Venkateshwaran, Indu Kant Deo, Rajeev K. Jaiman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01907

MUTE-DSS: A Digital-Twin-Based Decision Support System for Minimizing Underwater Radiated Noise in Ship Voyage Planning
We present a novel MUTE-DSS, a digital-twin-based decision support system for minimizing underwater radiated noise (URN) during ship voyage planning. It is a ROS2-centric framework that integrates state-of-the-art acoustic models combining a semi-empirical reference spectrum for near-field modeling with 3D ray tracing for propagation losses for far-field modeling, offering real-time computation of the ship noise signature, alongside a data-driven Southern resident killer whale distribution mode…

The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you've never heard this sort of music before. The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise…

"Digital Camouflage": The LLVM Challenge in LLM-Based Malware Detection
Ekin B\"oke, Simon Torka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16671 https://ar…

"Digital Camouflage": The LLVM Challenge in LLM-Based Malware Detection
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as promising tools for malware detection by analyzing code semantics, identifying vulnerabilities, and adapting to evolving threats. However, their reliability under adversarial compiler-level obfuscation is yet to be discovered. In this study, we empirically evaluate the robustness of three state-of-the-art LLMs: ChatGPT-4o, Gemini Flash 2.5, and Claude Sonnet 4 against compiler-level obfuscation techniques implemented via the LLVM infrastructure. Thes…

Modeling Interactive Narrative Systems: A Formal Approach
Jules Clerc, Domitile Lourdeaux, Mohamed Sallak, Johann Barbier, Marc Ravaine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05653 https://…

Modeling Interactive Narrative Systems: A Formal Approach
Interactive Narrative Systems (INS) have revolutionized digital experiences by empowering users to actively shape their stories, diverging from traditional passive storytelling. However, the field faces challenges due to fragmented research efforts and diverse system representations. This paper introduces a formal representation framework for INS, inspired by diverse approaches from the state of the art. By providing a consistent vocabulary and modeling structure, the framework facilitates the …

TONUS: Neuromorphic human pose estimation for artistic sound co-creation
Jules Lecomte (Fortiss GmbH, Munich, Germany), Konrad Zinner (Hochschule f\"ur Musik und Theater Munich, Germany), Michael Neumeier (Fortiss GmbH, Munich, Germany), Axel von Arnim (Fortiss GmbH, Munich, Germany)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15734

TONUS: Neuromorphic human pose estimation for artistic sound co-creation
Human machine interaction is a huge source of inspiration in today's media art and digital design, as machines and humans merge together more and more. Its place in art reflects its growing applications in industry, such as robotics. However, those interactions often remains too technical and machine-driven for people to really engage into. On the artistic side, new technologies are often not explored in their full potential and lag a bit behind, so that state-of-the-art research does not make …

Equally entangled multiqubit states
Francisco Albarr\'an-Arriagada, Guillermo Romero, Juan Carlos Retamal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20770 https://arxi…

Equally entangled multiqubit states
We present a protocol for generating multiqubit quantum states with translationally invariant pairwise entanglement. Our approach is tailored for digital quantum computers with restricted qubit connectivity, a common limitation in state-of-the-art hardware platforms. We examine two configurations: star connectivity, which enables rotationally invariant entanglement, and linear connectivity, which achieves translationally invariant entanglement. For the linear configuration, we use a variant of …

Layered Interactions: Exploring Non-Intrusive Digital Craftsmanship Design Through Lacquer Art Interfaces
Yan Dong, Hanjie Yu, Yanran Chen, Zipeng Zhang, Qiong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17430

Layered Interactions: Exploring Non-Intrusive Digital Craftsmanship Design Through Lacquer Art Interfaces
Integrating technology with the distinctive characteristics of craftsmanship has become a key issue in the field of digital craftsmanship. This paper introduces Layered Interactions, a design approach that seamlessly merges Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) technologies with traditional lacquerware craftsmanship. By leveraging the multi-layer structure and material properties of lacquerware, we embed interactive circuits and integrate programmable hardware within the layers, creating tangible in…

Hate in Plain Sight: On the Risks of Moderating AI-Generated Hateful Illusions
Yiting Qu, Ziqing Yang, Yihan Ma, Michael Backes, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22617

Hate in Plain Sight: On the Risks of Moderating AI-Generated Hateful Illusions
Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have enabled the creation of a new form of digital art: optical illusions--visual tricks that create different perceptions of reality. However, adversaries may misuse such techniques to generate hateful illusions, which embed specific hate messages into harmless scenes and disseminate them across web communities. In this work, we take the first step toward investigating the risks of scalable hateful illusion generation and the potential for bypa…

How to Make Museums More Interactive? Case Study of Artistic Chatbot
Filip J. Kucia, Bartosz Grabek, Szymon D. Trochimiak, Anna Wr\'oblewska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00572

How to Make Museums More Interactive? Case Study of Artistic Chatbot
Conversational agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly utilized in educational settings, in particular in individual closed digital environments, yet their potential adoption in the physical learning environments like cultural heritage sites, museums, and art galleries remains relatively unexplored. In this study, we present Artistic Chatbot, a voice-to-voice RAG-powered chat system to support informal learning and enhance visitor engagement during a live art exhibition …

The Rhythm of Tai Chi: Revitalizing Cultural Heritage in Virtual Reality through Interactive Visuals
Xianghan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16605 https://

The Rhythm of Tai Chi: Revitalizing Cultural Heritage in Virtual Reality through Interactive Visuals
The Rhythm of Tai Chi reinterprets the ancient Chinese martial art as a dynamic, interactive virtual reality (VR) experience. By leveraging computer vision and multimedia technologies, the project transforms Tai Chi's philosophy and movements into an immersive digital form. Real-time motion tracking captures user gestures, while visual feedback systems simulate the flow of Qi, enabling an intuitive and engaging practice environment. Beyond technological innovation, this work bridges traditional…