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Cover art by Donald "C-Note" Hooker: top image "Cell Time" (2019); bottom image "During the Flood" (2017)

To learn more, please visit the sites for Donald "C-Note" Hooker and Art for Redemption.

Show Notes:
0:00 Anna D. Smith discussing C-Note Hooker’s artwork entitled “During the Flood”
1:20 Smith’s background
3:15 Smith’s work as a court advocate
4:00 Smith’s adoption of son, Emmanuel 
4:45 Smith’s contact with artist Donald “C-Note” Hooker
5:55 Art for Redemption coffee book
6:10 C-Note’s work related to social justice
6:45 “During the Flood” aka “Count Time”
7:50 California prison built on flood-prone areas 
8:45 compensation for incarcerated workers
11:00 Smith’s efforts to sell C-Note’s artwork
11:45 billboards “Incarceration Nation” and “Look Up Hope and Beauty”
12:20 “Colored Girl Warhol”
13:20 Billboard events to raise awareness about issues for the individuals in the system, the homeless, parolees 
14:10 “Incarceration Nation”
14:50 misconceptions about individuals in the system
16:45 defining justice and amendment of the 13th Amendment 
19:00 power of imagery to impact social awareness about issues with the system
20:30 legacy and need for connections
21:00 Martin Luther King’s inspiration to love one’s enemies
24:00 incarcerated individual who entered contest about rehabilitation 
27:00 view of justice for Smith began with her father’s work as teacher of economics to those incarcerated
30:30 Vanity Fair article 
32:00 importance of the arts in the system 

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To learn more and support Vacant to Visual artists, please visit the CityKey website.

To reach out and learn more about Ernest Chrappah's work, please visit his website.

Show notes:

0:00 Ernest Chrappah
1:10 Chrappah’s background
4:00 Washington DC’s Vacant to Visual program
9:00 artists included in the Vacant to Visual program
9:50 Nia Keturah Calhoun
11:15 “Ro” Stephenson
12:00 Vacant to Visual NFTs
13:40 feedback from Vacant to Visual program
16:20 Vacant to Visual program as a model for other cities
18:20 his view on how art can be used to create a more just society
20:45 his defintiion of justice
23:15 future work
25:30 AI policy
28:30 Vacant To Visual Site and Vacant to Visual NFT purchase cite

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To learn more, please visit the website for the #lastseen project.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 Katharina Menschick on the response to #lastseen project

3:00 Menschick – research associate in Arolsen Archives’ historical research department dealing with digital memory projects, digital archival projects and archival theory

3:20 Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller – historian with Arolsen Archives and House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin

3:45 mission of the #lastseen initiative

5:00 missing deportation photographs 

6:00 deportation photographs found by American GI and returned during Nuremberg trials

7:00 request for deportation photographs

7:20 types of deportation photographs 

8:30 Eisenach deportation – Magda Katz 

9:00 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum research – donor identified uncle in photograph 

11:15 deportation from Dr. Kreutzmüller’s hometown

12:30 questions about why photographers took the deportation photos

13:00 spectatorship / audience of the photographs

14:20 importance of photographs as a historical source

14:45 virtual interactive educational resource

16:45 German high school pupils’ assistance in developing educational resource

18:10 difficulty of discussing bystanders 

19:30 photographs invite reflection 

22:00 historical transparency by telling what they don’t know 

25:00 giving context to photographs 

28:30 gaze of those photographed

29:15 propaganda film in Warsaw Ghetto

30:20 legacy of their work 

32:15 definition of justice – striving for fairness

33:00 real restoration cannot be achieved

34:00 doing justice to the photographs and to those in the photographs

34:45 restitution through archives 

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 SHOW NOTES:
0:00 Alan Robertshaw
1:00 Emily Gould - overview of AI historical development
2:30 first phase - 1950s Alan Turing - machines do what they are told
3:10 second phase - machine learning creating models using data and develop methods to make decisions / predictions based on that data
3:50 third phase - deep learning usually using neural networks to mimic the human brain
4:50 GANs - part of third phase that involve generator and discriminator algorithms
5:55 Obvious’ Portrait of Edmond de Belamy
6:40 Robbie Barrett’s code used by Obvious
8:40 unpredictability in the deep learning phase 
9:25 different tests applied to determine if a machine is intelligent
9:55 Turing test - machine is intelligent if you can’t tell the difference between responses by a human and a machine
10:10 Lovelace test - machine is intelligent if you can’t explain machine’s answer
11:20 ‘Alpha Go’ algorithm
13:30 uses of AI
14:20 huge training data sets
15:50 major risks with AI include copyright
17:10 privacy and data protection
17:20 transparency - deep fake
17:40 bias amplification
18:15 MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini’s work with facial analysis software
19:45 UK’s pro-innovation approach to AI
21:45 text and data mining (TDM) exception only for non-commercial use - proposal to expand to commercial use
24:25 Nov 2022 government decided not to expand TDM exception to commercial use
24:55 UK Pro-innovation Regulation of Technologies Review
26:45 A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation policy paper  - no legislation in the short term, no move to central regulatory body for AI
29:30 AI described in UK white paper as including autonomy and adaptivity
32:25 Global Summit on AI Safety
32:45 EU AI Act with risk—based approach - June 2023 signed off by Parliament; final conclusions expected late 2023; operational circa 2026
36:35 US - AI suits pending
37:00 Robbie Barrett
38:00 opt in versus opt out policy
39:20 Senate testimony regarding UK’s AI advances
40:15 US Task Force on AI Policy proposed; Privacy Consumer Protection Framework
40:45 Getty v. Stability AI suits in US and UK
41:25 2024 elections and AI
44:00 Alan Robertshaw’s case with Getty
47:05 Gould: AI voice scam
48:00 Robertshaw: AI uses
50:20 AI medical screening
53:00 consciousness
56:00 Artist Sofia Crespo’s work with natural history
56:30 Lines and Bones by artist Iskra Velitchkova
56:50 Dawn Chorus Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
57:30 projection for how artists in the UK will address AI issues 

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To learn more, please visit the sites for Sojourn Theatre, One Nation/One Project, and the Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration exhibition. 

Cover Photograph: "Rohd co-facilitating an arts convening in Boston this past fall with Nicole Brewer and musicians from Silkroad Ensemble"

Show Notes:

3:45 Rohd’s background

4:50 'Hope is Vital' project in DC area

7:00 Sojourn Theatre

10:10 2003 disruption in Oregon legislature

11:50 'Witness Our Schools' project - role of public education today 

14:30 impact of bringing voices in and building relationships for a different kind of dialogue

15:15 criteria for success of arts-based work around civic issues 

16:10 One Nation / One Project rooted in post-Great Depression Federal Theater project

22:15 local community involvement centered on building relationships

25:30 approach to critics of social-based arts programs

28:10 Center for Performance and Civil Practice (CPCP) - collective of 9 

33:45 Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration exhibition with Arizona State University Art Museum Director Miki Garcia (Episode 79)

37:45 choreography / dramaturgy for Undoing Time

40:20 questions posed in Undoing Time

42:10 future project for the cards created from Undoing Time 

44:45 aspect of justice included in the question he focuses on: who are we responsible for?

47:30 influence of teachers that led Rohd to his current work

49:50 legacy 

51:30 Co-Lab for Civic Imagination in Montana

53:50 ‘Communities of Care’ model

54:15 Definition of Civic Imagination - like functional democracy

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To learn more, please visit the websites for Jeremy Richter, J.W. Judge, Scarlet Oak Press and The Write Approach podcast.

Show Notes:

1:00 Commercial litigation practice with Gordon Rees

4:00 Sustainable marketing and branding with writing law blog 

5:00 Speaking and presenting at conferences on legal topics

5:20 Writing legal non-fiction on case management, client development

6:20 2018 ABA published book Building A Better Law Practice, 2019 Self published 2nd and third books Stop Putting Out Fires and Level Up Your Law Practice: The Ultimate Guide to Being a Successful Lawyer 

7:40 August 2020 first novel Vulcan Rising

8:20 Research for family story from father’s side of family 

8:50 Grandfather’s father murdered his estranged wife and himself in 1940 

10:45 Research for second novel Seeking Sanctuary in The Zauberi Chronicles set in Germany’s Black Forest

14:30 Lawyerpreneur podcast ran from March 2020 to August 2022

16:50 The Write Approach podcast

18:45 Co-host Barbara Hinske
20:00 The Write Approach podcast episode 6: Dovetailing Creative Ideas and Smart Business Decisions with Kevin Tumlinson and reference to AI

20:45 AI changes

21:50 Chat GPT - rewrite of book blurb

22:40 Chat GPT-3 and Chat GPT-4

23:00 AI’s impact on jobs

24:00 AI for book cover ideas

24:25 Casual Business with Fairies

25:00 5th novel - Castaway meets a murder mystery

26:10 Publishing imprint Scarlet Oak Press

26:50 Do You Draw Pictures by Becki C. Lee (Author), Walter Jaczkowski (Illustrator)

27:35 Should We Shake On It by Becki C. Lee (Author), Walter Jaczkowski (Illustrator)

27:50 Mommy Needs a Minute by Claire E. Parsons & Naomi L. Hudson

29:00 Traditional publishing

31:00 The Write Approach podcast episode 33: From Spicy Romance to Chart-Topping Suspense with Alessandra Torre

31:25 Evolution of his business goals and intent for future work

32:50 Pursuit of multiple careers

34:25 Definition of justice 

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Cover art After World War III, 2020, oil on board, 60 cm x 80 cm, by Farook Mohammed

To learn more, please visit the website for the Afro Arabian Empire.

Show Notes:

00:45 Pan-African mission of his artwork that combines the diversity of Africa

2:30 artwork to promote brotherhood and unity for Africa and the world 

8:00 artwork tells stories that include a focus on identity and gender

10:00 childhood

12:25 social constructs

15:30 power of art

16:00 legacy he want to leave

18:00 under-population of the world

18:40 sustainable development 

19:00 examples of his work 

22:30 women

23:10 Man’s Endeavor

25:00 life outside the earth

26:30 use of AI 

30:30 regulations on use of technology 

32:15 transparency about use of AI to create art

33:00 Chat GPT

34:40 open market 

36:20 used Midjourney for ideas 

38:20 use of AI for bad reasons

39:15 drone technology

40:20 Elon Musk

40:50 After World War III

44:30 claims against S African media houses

47:30 Afro Arabian Empire 

47:55 group exhibition planned for Mantis Boutique 

48:30 Continental Pan-Africa Art Exhibition 

49:45 view of justice 

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To learn more: 18 April 2023 UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee regarding NFTs and the blockchain,  Emily Gould's correspondence following the hearing on several issues touched on by the Committee; and NFT-related posts on the IAL Blog.

Show Notes:
1:15 Beeple sold ”Everydays — The First 5000 Days” for $69 million
2:45 The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report
3:00 current global art market valued at 67.8 billion
3:15 current art-related NFTs valued at $1.5 billion
3:50 collectibles-related NFTs valued at 11.8 billion
5:00 Parliamentary  committee
5:50 NFT life cycle
6:40 NFT defined
10:50 Distributed Ledger Technology
12:20 Ethereum
14:20 Web 1-3
15:50 Metaverse
16:50 holograms
17:35 stakeholders
22:50 resale royalty right
24:00 NFTs taken off chain will break royalty under smart contract
27:15 Flipkick - NFT authentication service
27:25 Artclear -  NFT authentication service
28:00  blockchain and provenance
30:40 fractional ownership
31:40 DAOs
32:40 fractional.art
32:55 Artsect Gallery
34:50 Copyright infringement
37:00 licensing 
37:40 Injective Protocol purchased/burnt Banksy's Morons (White)
38:50 Daystorm posted NFT of Basquiat for sale along with IP rights
39:30 TM infringement - MetaBirkin NFTs
40:30 commercial risks
41:00 NFT platform liability and disclaimers
42:00 EU copyright directive
42:25 Soleymani v. Nifty Gateway
44:10 UK consumer rights act protection for Soleymani
44:30 illicit activity - theft of NFTs or unauthorized minting of NFTs
44:45 ex-OpenSea employee convicted of fraud/money laundering
45:15 Osbourne v Opensea & Tulip Trading Limited v Bitcoin
45:30 property status of NFTs
46:00 money laundering
46:25 financial risks
48:00 tax & estate planning
48:15 environmental concerns
50:00 Whitworth Gallery’s Ancient of Days
51:10 Vacant-To-Visual Program 
52:40  Hirst’s Currency project
54:05 Alan Robertshaw
54:30 Currency project results slightly favored physical works over NFT
55:45 Hirst’s The Beautiful Paintings project
56:35 international body 
57:20 Robershaw 
58:40 conflict between smart contracts and natural term licensing
1:00:30 Robertshaw 
1:01:10 transaction time
1:02:20 "trustless" system actually requires trust

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To learn more, please visit the websites for the Max Stern Restitution Project, the HEAR Act, the Second Circuit's decision in Zuckerman v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Zurückgeben Foundation and Almost Lost: the Heinemann Legacy (Before, During, and After the Holocaust).

Show Notes:
1:30 Max Stern Art Restitution Project 
2:30 Dr. Max Stern
5:00 Stern’s restitution efforts
8:00 Cancellation of The Max Stern Düsseldorf to Montreal Art Exhibition
9:50 Sales under duress
10:15 Auctions at cut-rate prices as an encouragement to the German people
13:15 Rug in the office of Angela Merkel 
14:20 Russian exhibition of looted German objects
16:00 German Lost Art Foundation 
17:00 Mosse Art Research Initiative - partly funded by German Lost Art Foundation
18:10 Thieves able to give good title under German law
20:40 Hilde Schramm - German politician for Alliance 90/The Greens, daughter of  German architect/Nazi Party official Albert Speer
21:20 The Zurückgeben Foundation - organization started by Schramm
21:45 City of Lüneburg, Germany honored Jewish Heinemann family whose objects were looted 
22:45 Heinemann family donated looted objects back to the Lüneburg Museum
23:20 Holocaust Expropriation Art Recovery (HEAR) Act 
24:40 Second Circuit decision in Zuckerman v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
25:00 Doctrine of Laches
27:40 New focus of research on difficulty of being honest about genocide restitution
28:30 Theft of works from Ukrainian museums
33:20 Dehumanization as part of genocide
34:00 Denial of wrongs committed in genocide
35:00 Russia’s prior theft of Ukrainian cultural heritage
35:20 World’s tolerance / denial of genocide
36:20 Need for empathy
36:30 What is a bystander
36:50 Spain’s policy as an allegedly neutral party during WWII
38:00 Concept of justice
38:45 Andrew Smith - The Met’s reasoning 
40:45 British Museum’s policy that Elgin Marbles are part of UK heritage
42:40 HEAR Act’s legislative intent ignored by the Court
43:45 Picasso’s The Actor was a gift to the Met
44:20 Vienna case of  painting looted from Alma Mahler (Edvard Munch's "Summer Night at the Beach") restituted in 2001 by Belvedere Museum to Mahler's granddaughter, Marina
46:30 Alan Robertshaw - neutral area that serviced U boats
47:20 Alan Robertshaw - 1995 abolishment of UK’s market overt - English legal concept from mediaeval times that allowed subsequent ownership of stolen goods

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Cover image by Stephen Tromans: Climate Innocence, 1957, oil on board, 20x24 inches

To view Stephen Tromans' work, please visit Mr. Tromans' website and Instagram as well as Ely Cathedral's feature of his Golgotha series, the Cambridge Drawing Society's discussion of his work and the Gallery Holt.

Show Notes:
1:30 Troman’s choice to go into law, specifically environmental law
2:45 Lord Denning
3:30 Troman’s work as a painter
4:30 Diploma in oil painting
5:00 Influenced by Turner, Caravaggio, Goya
5:30 Scotland’s Joan Eardley
5:40 Royal Academician Fred Cuming
6:30 mixed media and collage
6:50 Hong Kong urbanscapes
9:20 Golgotha series
12:00 Ely Cathedral
15:00 feedback from Golgotha series
15:45 Ukrainian children and their toys as a focus in Golgotha series
18:00 future cathedral venues for Golgotha series
18:45 current work
20:20 environmentally-related art
22:00 Climate Innocence, 1957 - acceptance of pollution
23:00 Troman’s process
24:00 art’s function to speak to social issues
26:00 compliments between legal and creative work
28:50 legacy
31:30 definition of justice 
34:15 how Troman’s artwork speaks to justice
35:15 the power of Picasso’s Guernica

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