PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The AT Feed is a satirical mash-up of current climate headlines, exaggerated A.I. interpretation, and pen-to-paper hand drawing. This series is intended as a space to reflect on the confluence of news media, artificial intelligence, and public understanding (or misunderstanding) of current issues regarding nature, the environment, and climate change.

The AT Feed is published every two weeks at atfeed.xyz and on Philadelphia’s Artblog, a nonprofit online arts publication. Each post aggregates the top five environmental news headlines from a variety news sources including the BBC, CBS News, CNBC, Fox News, Grist, the Guardian, Inside Climate News, LA Times, the NY Times, NPR, Politico, Reuters, Science Daily, and the US Department of State. Every AT Feed post combines approximately 60 current headlines from these sources into one satirical news article generated by ChatGPT (an AI text generator), and the published "story" includes links back to the original news articles. An accompanying image is created by MidJourney (an AI image generator), which is then reinterpreted, or "human-processed", by way of a hand-drawn illustration in gouache and hatched pen and ink. The footnote of every AT Feed post includes an estimate of the carbon emissions produced in the creation of each publication.
 

PROJECT INFORMATION

Primary Role of the Designer: Designer as activist

Client Relationship: A retainer relationship

Intention of the Project: Introduction of a new product, service, or program

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Materials: Gouache, pen and ink, RSS feeds, ChatGPT, MidJourney

CREDIT INFORMATION

Creative Director: Sarah Kaizar

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Designers: Sarah Kaizar

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Illustrator: Sarah Kaizar

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Other Credits: Roberta Fallon - Editor, Artblog; Ryan deRoche - Managing Editor, Artblog