IG: @ sam.rolfes

Joined June 2012
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20 Nov 2024
“The Client” — the VR puppeted character I play in our live stage show 321Rule
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May 11
graphic designers frothing the ufo file textures is such a perfectly depressing example of graphicdesignbrain: everything pure surface to be appropriated/recouperated, zero thoughts, most willingly psyopped. first palantir tasteslop now war dot gov slash ufo texture pack.
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we must end the quirk chungus terrible creative technology project industrial complex (i’m in the @clereviewbooks today about the arts collaborations at Bell Labs and RAND in the 70s!)
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Look inside our recent Create-athon: Making Mocap Digital Movies, led by @samrolfes & @team_rolfes! 🎮✨ Participants got hands-on with motion capture technology, CGI, & digital design to bring a video game chase scene to life. ➡️ Upcoming Create-athons: bit.ly/4j3WdO3.
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high-res stills of our Arca Mequetrefe tour video avail on drive
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excited to share the first of a few pieces made for @arca1000000’s historic shows last year — Mequetrefe
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Boing Beat / 2021 / Hannah Diamond / MC Boing & Danny L Harle
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22 Dec 2025
"It is an eye-watering reminder that the most influential and expensive digital artists at the top of the pyramid might have arrived there because they are very good internet users, not necessarily good artists. It is crucial for the digital art community, as well as the media that covers it, to recognise that this reactionary, adolescent approach does not have to define digital art. Digital art does not need to be viral or so exhaustingly post-internet. It does not have to be defined or governed by the rules of the internet at all. Cryptocurrency culture has led to a paradigm shift wherein viral fame and shock value, rather than conceptual heft, seem to determine value, and consequently even enabled some artists to present at an Art Basel fair without passing through the traditional art world filters. The implication seems to be that those filters are somehow incapable of vetting digital art and that doing so requires different metrics and channels. Ironically, most digital art that successfully passes through those filters has been much more likely to stand the test of time." – Sarp Kerem Yavuz Digital art today has a narcissism problem in: The Art Newspaper, 22 December 2025
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5 Nov 2025
it’s not the New York post but I’ll take it, 加油!!
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5 Nov 2025
I’m so proud of this fucking city
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1 Nov 2025
they said I couldn’t play Pop Crypt if I wasn’t sufficiently aristocratic enough …
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31 Oct 2025
SET TIMES FOR TONIGHT 🎃 popcrypt.sksksks.wtf
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30 Oct 2025
Zohran Mamdani 👍
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24 Oct 2025
OCTOBER 31 🎃 djfuck.sksksks.wtf
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16 Oct 2025
Artists dealing with bleeding edge tech need to reckon with the fact we're often basically unpaid marketers or beta testers for the tools of globe spanning industrial death
Superpowers for Superheroes. Today, we unveil EagleEye: the family of warfighter augments that place mission command & AI directly into the operator's helmet.
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AI knockoff of my book (L) versus the genuine article (R) We need to rise up and stop the tech industry by force. Our livelihoods, our culture, and our ecological environment are worth fighting for. I am deadly serious.
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5 Oct 2025
There are more of us than them.
SOUTHSIDE CHICAGO — Windy City residents run off immigration agents to save a man mid-abduction at 63rd and Kostner Ave.
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