*Oxymoronic tool categories, a favorite of the blog here.

** TRANSMEDIALE 2026 ———————————————————— The ethos of the 2026 edition proposes a recalibrated tempo of gathering: recursive, porous, and durational, combining expansive programming with spaces for re-regulation and conviviality. Framed metaphorically through the architecture of a shell, both the festival’s rhythm and its thematic focus center on rethinking infrastructures, digital ways of life, and the […]

https://v2.nl/events/the-illusion-of-thinking The Illusion of Thinking is a group exhibition that explores the overlooked implications of artificial intelligence and its assumed capacity to think and reason. While AI often suggests genuine cognition, it primarily mirrors human ideas through recall and imitation, raising fundamental questions about the nature of understanding itself. As AI systems become increasingly embedded […]

*It’s nice when modern people are making modern replicas of pre-iondustrial handmade Italian artifacts, an they haul out the big, shiny, electrically-powered belt-sander. https://youtu.be/mU46upSK-pY?si=XLp2yDY1J6LdxkJe

Rebuilding imaginary futures on YouTube. https://youtu.be/3T6Yu9QF310?si=AnUJMzcmqsb1wlvu

*Looking forward to Share Festival owning one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgveb2iSh08

https://rodneybrooks.com/a-prophetic-poem-about-artificial-intelligence-written-in-1961/ A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961 rodneybrooks.com/a-prophetic-poem-about-artificial-intelligence-written-in-1961/ In early September a poem about AI started circulating on social media, with a publication date of 1961. At first it just seemed too cute to me and I thought it might be fake, or written by an LLM, passed off as written by […]

*This seems like quite an interesting volume. Maybe if she threw in a free pair of 3DKnitted Iris van Herpen socks. https://www.irisvanherpen.com/boutique/ivh-book

Who knew? Of course it’s great! https://youtu.be/K3CFILg5OTc?si=_kNZFm0Ke0WipPEX