Letter from London: Depth of Field

AI treated footage of Neil Young in 1985 singing ‘Hey Hey, My My’ has been doing the rounds on a well-known Chinese-owned social media site, at a time when Young — the so-called Godfather of Grunge — remains self-banned from an equally famous Swedish audio streaming provider. (‘The king is gone but he's not forgotten/Is this the story of Johnny Rotten?’) Memory itself is being played around with here, and we end up with a kind of visual super-reality, with only the familiarity of the song to guide us. It is not unpleasant and our visual memory banks anyway are so often footage-like these days, as we continue to remember not so much the events themselves as footage of these events. More

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