A conversation with Andrew Mcluhan & Ruby Justice Thelot | on Signal, Noise, Slop

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Join us for a conversation with Ruby Justice Thelot & Andrew McLuhan on algorithmic ecology, the conditions and symptoms of slop, cultural practice in this new age, and more <3 ₊˚⊹☆ Ruby Justice Thelot is a designer, artist & cyberethnographer based in new york city. he is an professor of design and media studies at nyu. His work focuses on digital phenomenology, virtual ontology and the implications of being-on-line. he writes about virtual realms, digital communities, and artificial intelligence. Andrew McLuhan is the director of The McLuhan Institute, founded in 2017 to continue the work of Marshall and Eric McLuhan in exploring the relationship between culture, media, and technology. The grandson of Marshall McLuhan and son of Eric McLuhan, Andrew spent over a decade studying and traveling alongside his father before continuing the family's work following Eric's passing in 2018. He has lectured internationally at universities, advised organizations, led workshops and courses—including the Understanding Media Intensive at Gray Area since 2020—and is known for documenting Marshall McLuhan's annotated library, now preserved at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and recognized on UNESCO Memory of the World Register. ₊˚⊹☆ presented alongside our latest exhibition at tiat, The Epistemologies of Slop, an exhibition exploring how meaning, trust, and culture are produced under conditions of algorithmic excess and generative media. tiat is the intersection of art & technology! we…