Jordan Heath

Deepfakes  As we've moved forward, the pace in which artificial intelligence has evolved in recent years has been heavily predicted, yet staggeringly surprising. In this progress, it has opened up brand new avenues that invite social aspects that couldn't have been reached in the past. So much so, it is closing the border between what is real and embodied, with what is digital hallucination and disembodiment. We must be prepared in order to safeguard our perceptions from being swept up and integrated into a false sense of reality within the digital age. Deepfakes are a prime example: Deepfakes are a digital reconfiguration of a person's face or body into that of someone/something else. The main avenue that we wrestle with today, regarding deepfakes, are its malicious uses to deceive, humiliate or make fun of the person targeted - meaning it can extend beyond one's ignorance of its falseness . There can be deviating  consequences for anyone with a prevalent online...

A Day in my Digital Life Compared to most people, I would guess that my digital life is out of the ordinary. For a few years now, I have been developing a way to embody a digital presence that communicates in a dynamic way. It is instilled in my music playlists, my social media accounts, and my assignments.     Throughout the day          X (Twitter) X (formally known as Twitter) is my primary platform that I use everyday. It is by far the most dynamic, and lays out the essence of this embodiment which can be found in other platforms that I use. Here is a video going into detail of how I orient myself within my digital life:           Apple Music This 123|421 pattern is also constructed within my music playlists, I string out and weave together a variety of albums and songs to abstract a narrative. Since it is ever evolving, I wrestle with work I've done years ago when I had no idea where I would be lead -which is still t...