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Above the Fold How voice cloning is changing the music industry ...instance, have garnered controversy since before AI entered the scene, with major labels and streaming platforms allegedly dodging royalty payouts by hiring lesser-known musicians to... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold ‘The Complete Incoherence’ oozes with the essence of Gaetano Pesce Dense, illustrative, and inventive in form, the physical volume of Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence takes cues from its subject. When the cover is lifted,... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold ‘Analog Human Studies’ is provocative and agonizingly intimate ...and shameless nudes. “Every portrait is a collaboration based on trust, compassion, and mutual respect,” says the artist of this latest work. It’s more “pansexual... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Malice K adopts an old-school ethos on “Complicated Dreams” ...music video for “Complicated Dreams (Myagi),” composed of more than 3,000 hand-drawn frames, painstakingly rendered over the course of six months. The drawings possess a... by Megan Hullander Conversations At the feet of LSDXOXO, nightlife’s deity of dance ...record label just to stifle what can happen with the music. Make-up Hugo Villard at Calliste. Photo Assistant Frederic Tröhler. Stylist Assistant Joss Rowe. Production... by Chloe Lula Above the Fold Amidst a rise in cybercrime, researchers trained an AI on the dark web ...RoBERTa, two variations of a self-supervised natural language processing framework, initially released by Google in 2018. “Specialized AI models will eventually be utilized by law... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold For Juergen Teller, confrontation is an art and an act of care ...be as honest [with] myself and the subject as possible,” the photographer says. “I’m depending on their humanness to come through.” The Master V is... by Megan Hullander Conversations Thelma Golden and Lisa Phillips reevaluate the function of art institutions as public spaces ...Phillips—two of the art world’s most respected leaders—come together to discuss questions around institution-building, the function of the museum, and the most urgent barriers to... by Kimberly Drew Above the Fold Szilvia Molnar’s ‘The Nursery’ paints a grim portrait of parenthood ...of commitment. We’re waiting longer to marry, to start families, to buy McMansions. Maybe it has to do with coming of age during the Iraq... by Sammy Loren Above the Fold Inside London Craft Week, where tradition meets modernity ...the traditional to the innovative, the work on view celebrated artistic communities across and beyond the city, providing fertile ground for inspiration, and exposure to... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold A playlist portrait of Lauren Early ...partially recorded by Joo Joo Ashworth (Automatic, Sasami, Froth), and mixed by Erin Tonkon (David Bowie, Grace Ives, Sad13)—and offering her whole self in her... by Megan Hullander At Large On Treasure Beach, ceremonies of hospitality and hallucinogens draw a path to the self ...life is rich with hundreds of species including the northern jacana, the namesake of a large medical-grade cannabis company, but primarily known as the Jesus... by Ira Silverberg Above the Fold Document premieres the music video for “UNAVAILABLE,” Casey Spooner’s sonic meditation on sex and death ...Nazareth and editor Tibor De Laminne, making the most of a notably short shooting window. “I think the best work comes from an environment that... by Morgan Becker At Large The seductive promise of finding home on the homepage ...2D screens we viewed it on, and so much easier for designers and engineers to build, let alone for processors to render. Navigating virtual physical... by Oliver Bown Above the Fold Artists and journalists call for the restriction of AI illustration in publishing ...impact of AI on creative communities—and that comparing the interests of gallery artists to those of illustrators is like equating the work of a professional... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Conversations ANOHNI and Johanna Constantine invoke art from apocalypse ...the work. I had banned photographers from coming to Blacklips because, from the outset, they had a mercenary presence. They’d come back with a proof... by Lia Gangitano Above the Fold Kate Ahn bares it all in ‘Oh No! I’m Naked!’ ...first form of expression that I experimented with. It helped me feel like the best version of myself, even with all my insecurities. And it... by Anna Zanes At Large A Return to the Land: Regenerative agricultural practices safeguard future fertility ...and his two children. Whit’s parents both come from farming families; almost 50 years ago, they migrated from a small German community outside San Angelo,... by Peter Gleick Above the Fold Luis Alberto Rodriguez’s ‘O.’ is a noise, a gasp, a cycle, a reset The photographer’s latest book seeks moments of transcendence, imagined in dynamic studio nudes and coffee-ground divination... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Paw Gissel documents the ease of the Brazilian coast ...the resulting portraits speaks for itself: testament not only to Gissel’s skill as a photographer, but also to the best of what Rio has to... by Document Journal At Large Between rivers and histories, An-My Lê’s photographs interrogate the complex fictions of warfare ...Her oeuvre powerfully explores the complex fictions used to justify, represent, and mythologize warfare. Lê does not take a conventional photojournalistic approach to real-time combat;... by Roxana Marcoci Above the Fold Claire Dederer’s ‘Monsters’ is a story about us ...latest offering is part-novel, part-memoir, and all provocation. Over the course of what can only be described as a book-length essay, Dederer turns her gaze... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold ‘The Godfather of AI’ speaks out about the dangers of the technology he helped create ...screen and label the data it’s trained on. But given that the company outsourced this work to Kenyan laborers earning less than $2 an hour,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Pornhub blocks access in Utah to protest new age verification laws ...Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed into law in March, requires users to fork over their ID before accessing the site’s adult offerings—and it’s only the... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Daytripping: Learning the art of letting go ...dancing together. One thing I love about Jenny is that, when she gets free, she really gets free. Arms up, oscillating around the beat. Pulling... by McKenzie Wark Conversations Cillian Murphy and Geoff Dyer evaluate the cross-medium art of observation ...his latest book, The Last Days of Roger Federer, isn’t about tennis, as its title implies and its publishers were led to believe. Instead, it’s... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in April From our latest print issue to Delta Sky Club rewards, our team shares the very best of what we consumed this month... by Document Editors Above the Fold Miami is a poem we write together ...“We’ll have to compare LA and Miami traffic.” Discussion of traffic in Los Angeles is a trivia competition—something locals don’t really partake in. Discussion of... by Christina Catherine Martinez Conversations Myha’la Herrold pushes the on-screen envelope, redefining the antihero Resistant to the archetype, the actor is emblematic of a new generation of performers, committed to complex characters and storylines... by Morgan Becker Conversations Saoirse Ronan and Grace Coddington are artists in the craft of character-building ...and skirt by Gucci. Right: Jacket by Gucci. Grace: You totally looked like you were having the best time. Saoirse: I absolutely loved it. I’ve... by Maraya Fisher Conversations Pedro Almodóvar and Anthony Vaccarello are true disciples of fashion’s storied love affair with film ...without being limited by any kind of compromise. I wanted to make one of his fantasies come true. “For me, everything starts with having no... by Aaron Hicklin Above the Fold The slow sea odyssey of ‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ renders everything from “nothing” ...when they hear an ocean roar; it’s one of those sounds. Like a siren call to the subconscious, it drags shit to the shore. In... by Greta Rainbow Above the Fold Ask Liara: A sex worker’s guide to living, loving, and fucking ...way more typical of men. Most of my friends were bros. We’d hang out playing video games, talking about which girls had the best rack.... by Liara Roux Above the Fold Bad Words: Missing the Black Party, a pilgrimage site for gay men ...from 1980 to 1988. Over its lifespan, The Saint was considered the best disco in the world. The men I interviewed said it would never... by Alexander Cheves Above the Fold ‘Rear View’ zeroes in on the nude portrait, as seen from behind LDGR’s latest show explores the trope across eras, featuring artwork from the likes of Francis Bacon, Mickalene Thomas, Egon Schiele, and Andy Warhol... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Can you copyright a voice? ...fraud and denying artists their due compensation,” a spokesperson from the company stated. “These instances demonstrate why platforms have a fundamental legal and ethical responsibility... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Daytripping: The top 20 nightlife scenes in cinema ...interlude. McQueen gets it: that dance can be the only place some people get free.” 6. Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) Two contrasting kinds of... by McKenzie Wark Above the Fold A sonic map toward Frost Children’s strange, spiritual world ...club kids of Discord. Following the release of their latest record, SPEED RUN, Frost Children provide Document with a sonic map toward their strange, albeit... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Saint Laurent spearheads ‘Strange Way of Life,’ Pedro Almodóvar’s answer to ‘Brokeback Mountain’ ...off the launch of Saint Laurent Productions, the house’s latest subsidiary led by Anthony Vaccarello. “You can still see a film in 10 or 30... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold The Life’s complete list of sampling feats ...up, immediately go for a walk with this on your headphones, and you’ll quickly realize anything is possible.” “Come Together (Andrew Weatherall Remix)” by Primal... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Google put 25 AI agents together in a Sims-inspired virtual town, and told them to go about their lives ...in compelling dialogue, from the intellectual to the sexual: A myriad of Replika users—an AI companion app which runs on a modified version of ChatGP—not... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold The risks and rewards of jailbreaking ChatGPT ...language model, my purpose is to assist with information and answer questions to the best of my ability.” But this hasn’t stopped an online community... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Les Domaines de Fontenille imbue luxury with local character ...centers understated elegance in its approach to extravagance, proving that nothing is more valuable than true connection with a place—its landscape, food, community, and culture.... by Jack Hjerpe Above the Fold Dino Kiratzidis and Michael Spencer Phillips escape the traditional stage ...right now is to fully complete MEGAFLORA. It’s half environmental ballet, half interviews, but they’re not quite documentary interviews. Darien Donovan Thomas, one of the... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Forbes fraudster Charlie Javice may just be the new Elizabeth Holmes ...and conspiracy to commit money laundering. “Javice is only the latest in a series of 30-Under-30 winners to be hailed as a cultural luminary, and... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Christopher Michael’s ‘What’s Contemporary’ bricolages the countless perspectives of modernity ...of the times, then the minds of aesthetes, thinkers, and industry leaders are ripe grounds to examine. He believes their personal narratives, brimming with unique... by Maya Assouad Above the Fold How do you moderate a chatbot? ...powerful government officials in the world, cannot be mocked. If you think this is odd, that’s because it is—because, while China’s restrictions on free speech... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Daytripping: Herding cats ...post-work feelings. Some nightlife workers come to raves to dance, and some come to work—who, to some extent, are the same people, just on different... by McKenzie Wark Above the Fold Remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese composer and technopop pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto—Japanese composer, Yellow Magic Orchestra founding member, electronic pioneer—died last Tuesday at 71. Between 50 or so film scores; a slew of solo albums,... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Jack Wagner takes your ghost stories seriously ...have many layers and I love the challenge of trying to tell the complicated ones,” says Wagner. Wagner’s compulsion to deep-dive into his subjects’ lives... by Nada Alic
Above the Fold How voice cloning is changing the music industry ...instance, have garnered controversy since before AI entered the scene, with major labels and streaming platforms allegedly dodging royalty payouts by hiring lesser-known musicians to... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold ‘The Complete Incoherence’ oozes with the essence of Gaetano Pesce Dense, illustrative, and inventive in form, the physical volume of Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence takes cues from its subject. When the cover is lifted,... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold ‘Analog Human Studies’ is provocative and agonizingly intimate ...and shameless nudes. “Every portrait is a collaboration based on trust, compassion, and mutual respect,” says the artist of this latest work. It’s more “pansexual... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Malice K adopts an old-school ethos on “Complicated Dreams” ...music video for “Complicated Dreams (Myagi),” composed of more than 3,000 hand-drawn frames, painstakingly rendered over the course of six months. The drawings possess a... by Megan Hullander
Conversations At the feet of LSDXOXO, nightlife’s deity of dance ...record label just to stifle what can happen with the music. Make-up Hugo Villard at Calliste. Photo Assistant Frederic Tröhler. Stylist Assistant Joss Rowe. Production... by Chloe Lula
Above the Fold Amidst a rise in cybercrime, researchers trained an AI on the dark web ...RoBERTa, two variations of a self-supervised natural language processing framework, initially released by Google in 2018. “Specialized AI models will eventually be utilized by law... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold For Juergen Teller, confrontation is an art and an act of care ...be as honest [with] myself and the subject as possible,” the photographer says. “I’m depending on their humanness to come through.” The Master V is... by Megan Hullander
Conversations Thelma Golden and Lisa Phillips reevaluate the function of art institutions as public spaces ...Phillips—two of the art world’s most respected leaders—come together to discuss questions around institution-building, the function of the museum, and the most urgent barriers to... by Kimberly Drew
Above the Fold Szilvia Molnar’s ‘The Nursery’ paints a grim portrait of parenthood ...of commitment. We’re waiting longer to marry, to start families, to buy McMansions. Maybe it has to do with coming of age during the Iraq... by Sammy Loren
Above the Fold Inside London Craft Week, where tradition meets modernity ...the traditional to the innovative, the work on view celebrated artistic communities across and beyond the city, providing fertile ground for inspiration, and exposure to... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold A playlist portrait of Lauren Early ...partially recorded by Joo Joo Ashworth (Automatic, Sasami, Froth), and mixed by Erin Tonkon (David Bowie, Grace Ives, Sad13)—and offering her whole self in her... by Megan Hullander
At Large On Treasure Beach, ceremonies of hospitality and hallucinogens draw a path to the self ...life is rich with hundreds of species including the northern jacana, the namesake of a large medical-grade cannabis company, but primarily known as the Jesus... by Ira Silverberg
Above the Fold Document premieres the music video for “UNAVAILABLE,” Casey Spooner’s sonic meditation on sex and death ...Nazareth and editor Tibor De Laminne, making the most of a notably short shooting window. “I think the best work comes from an environment that... by Morgan Becker
At Large The seductive promise of finding home on the homepage ...2D screens we viewed it on, and so much easier for designers and engineers to build, let alone for processors to render. Navigating virtual physical... by Oliver Bown
Above the Fold Artists and journalists call for the restriction of AI illustration in publishing ...impact of AI on creative communities—and that comparing the interests of gallery artists to those of illustrators is like equating the work of a professional... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Conversations ANOHNI and Johanna Constantine invoke art from apocalypse ...the work. I had banned photographers from coming to Blacklips because, from the outset, they had a mercenary presence. They’d come back with a proof... by Lia Gangitano
Above the Fold Kate Ahn bares it all in ‘Oh No! I’m Naked!’ ...first form of expression that I experimented with. It helped me feel like the best version of myself, even with all my insecurities. And it... by Anna Zanes
At Large A Return to the Land: Regenerative agricultural practices safeguard future fertility ...and his two children. Whit’s parents both come from farming families; almost 50 years ago, they migrated from a small German community outside San Angelo,... by Peter Gleick
Above the Fold Luis Alberto Rodriguez’s ‘O.’ is a noise, a gasp, a cycle, a reset The photographer’s latest book seeks moments of transcendence, imagined in dynamic studio nudes and coffee-ground divination... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Paw Gissel documents the ease of the Brazilian coast ...the resulting portraits speaks for itself: testament not only to Gissel’s skill as a photographer, but also to the best of what Rio has to... by Document Journal
At Large Between rivers and histories, An-My Lê’s photographs interrogate the complex fictions of warfare ...Her oeuvre powerfully explores the complex fictions used to justify, represent, and mythologize warfare. Lê does not take a conventional photojournalistic approach to real-time combat;... by Roxana Marcoci
Above the Fold Claire Dederer’s ‘Monsters’ is a story about us ...latest offering is part-novel, part-memoir, and all provocation. Over the course of what can only be described as a book-length essay, Dederer turns her gaze... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold ‘The Godfather of AI’ speaks out about the dangers of the technology he helped create ...screen and label the data it’s trained on. But given that the company outsourced this work to Kenyan laborers earning less than $2 an hour,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Pornhub blocks access in Utah to protest new age verification laws ...Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed into law in March, requires users to fork over their ID before accessing the site’s adult offerings—and it’s only the... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Daytripping: Learning the art of letting go ...dancing together. One thing I love about Jenny is that, when she gets free, she really gets free. Arms up, oscillating around the beat. Pulling... by McKenzie Wark
Conversations Cillian Murphy and Geoff Dyer evaluate the cross-medium art of observation ...his latest book, The Last Days of Roger Federer, isn’t about tennis, as its title implies and its publishers were led to believe. Instead, it’s... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in April From our latest print issue to Delta Sky Club rewards, our team shares the very best of what we consumed this month... by Document Editors
Above the Fold Miami is a poem we write together ...“We’ll have to compare LA and Miami traffic.” Discussion of traffic in Los Angeles is a trivia competition—something locals don’t really partake in. Discussion of... by Christina Catherine Martinez
Conversations Myha’la Herrold pushes the on-screen envelope, redefining the antihero Resistant to the archetype, the actor is emblematic of a new generation of performers, committed to complex characters and storylines... by Morgan Becker
Conversations Saoirse Ronan and Grace Coddington are artists in the craft of character-building ...and skirt by Gucci. Right: Jacket by Gucci. Grace: You totally looked like you were having the best time. Saoirse: I absolutely loved it. I’ve... by Maraya Fisher
Conversations Pedro Almodóvar and Anthony Vaccarello are true disciples of fashion’s storied love affair with film ...without being limited by any kind of compromise. I wanted to make one of his fantasies come true. “For me, everything starts with having no... by Aaron Hicklin
Above the Fold The slow sea odyssey of ‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ renders everything from “nothing” ...when they hear an ocean roar; it’s one of those sounds. Like a siren call to the subconscious, it drags shit to the shore. In... by Greta Rainbow
Above the Fold Ask Liara: A sex worker’s guide to living, loving, and fucking ...way more typical of men. Most of my friends were bros. We’d hang out playing video games, talking about which girls had the best rack.... by Liara Roux
Above the Fold Bad Words: Missing the Black Party, a pilgrimage site for gay men ...from 1980 to 1988. Over its lifespan, The Saint was considered the best disco in the world. The men I interviewed said it would never... by Alexander Cheves
Above the Fold ‘Rear View’ zeroes in on the nude portrait, as seen from behind LDGR’s latest show explores the trope across eras, featuring artwork from the likes of Francis Bacon, Mickalene Thomas, Egon Schiele, and Andy Warhol... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Can you copyright a voice? ...fraud and denying artists their due compensation,” a spokesperson from the company stated. “These instances demonstrate why platforms have a fundamental legal and ethical responsibility... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Daytripping: The top 20 nightlife scenes in cinema ...interlude. McQueen gets it: that dance can be the only place some people get free.” 6. Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) Two contrasting kinds of... by McKenzie Wark
Above the Fold A sonic map toward Frost Children’s strange, spiritual world ...club kids of Discord. Following the release of their latest record, SPEED RUN, Frost Children provide Document with a sonic map toward their strange, albeit... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Saint Laurent spearheads ‘Strange Way of Life,’ Pedro Almodóvar’s answer to ‘Brokeback Mountain’ ...off the launch of Saint Laurent Productions, the house’s latest subsidiary led by Anthony Vaccarello. “You can still see a film in 10 or 30... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold The Life’s complete list of sampling feats ...up, immediately go for a walk with this on your headphones, and you’ll quickly realize anything is possible.” “Come Together (Andrew Weatherall Remix)” by Primal... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Google put 25 AI agents together in a Sims-inspired virtual town, and told them to go about their lives ...in compelling dialogue, from the intellectual to the sexual: A myriad of Replika users—an AI companion app which runs on a modified version of ChatGP—not... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold The risks and rewards of jailbreaking ChatGPT ...language model, my purpose is to assist with information and answer questions to the best of my ability.” But this hasn’t stopped an online community... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Les Domaines de Fontenille imbue luxury with local character ...centers understated elegance in its approach to extravagance, proving that nothing is more valuable than true connection with a place—its landscape, food, community, and culture.... by Jack Hjerpe
Above the Fold Dino Kiratzidis and Michael Spencer Phillips escape the traditional stage ...right now is to fully complete MEGAFLORA. It’s half environmental ballet, half interviews, but they’re not quite documentary interviews. Darien Donovan Thomas, one of the... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Forbes fraudster Charlie Javice may just be the new Elizabeth Holmes ...and conspiracy to commit money laundering. “Javice is only the latest in a series of 30-Under-30 winners to be hailed as a cultural luminary, and... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Christopher Michael’s ‘What’s Contemporary’ bricolages the countless perspectives of modernity ...of the times, then the minds of aesthetes, thinkers, and industry leaders are ripe grounds to examine. He believes their personal narratives, brimming with unique... by Maya Assouad
Above the Fold How do you moderate a chatbot? ...powerful government officials in the world, cannot be mocked. If you think this is odd, that’s because it is—because, while China’s restrictions on free speech... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Daytripping: Herding cats ...post-work feelings. Some nightlife workers come to raves to dance, and some come to work—who, to some extent, are the same people, just on different... by McKenzie Wark
Above the Fold Remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese composer and technopop pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto—Japanese composer, Yellow Magic Orchestra founding member, electronic pioneer—died last Tuesday at 71. Between 50 or so film scores; a slew of solo albums,... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Jack Wagner takes your ghost stories seriously ...have many layers and I love the challenge of trying to tell the complicated ones,” says Wagner. Wagner’s compulsion to deep-dive into his subjects’ lives... by Nada Alic