Cornelia Sollfrank in Berlin

Please join us for the upcoming exhibition “Nothing comes without its world! Cornelia Sollfrank & friends” in Berlin Exhibition at Deutsche Künstlerbund Berlin, 12 September – 21 November 2025. Opening Friday, 12 September 2025, 6pm On the occasion of the presentation of the HAP Grieshaber Prize 2025, Cornelia Sollfrank takes the invitation to a solo […]

Meanwhile, at Serpentine Galleries

Dear Friends, Last month we released Future Art Ecosystems 5: Art x Creative R&D, our latest briefing that charts the evolving landscape of art and advanced technologies. It captures the insights and momentum of practitioners on the ground, galvanising collective efforts and proposing a framework that positions artistic practice as a vital driver of technological […]

Four hundred of Laura Kampf’s friends

https://youtu.be/xTsuCKFa5TI?si=ZkgxYBkiV6moo276

NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH

Their “digital twin” ideology is as strange as Meta’s Metaverse.

“Are Knife Snobs Ruining the Multitool World”?

*I like these moral-crisis videos about the supposed threat of pocket jewelry. From an Italian perspective they really sound funny. https://youtu.be/yrucw1Dx77c?si=c4JPzTGk4vrj-cQO Is there a market for Leatherman tools that cost a thousand dollars (or more)? Yes, that’s a collectors’ market, and it’s quite old and well-established. Many years ago one of Abraham Lincoln’s pocket knives […]

From product design to special FX to museum-quality replicas

https://youtu.be/UfoDdIATW94?si=cy3qt30K9okqYwkZ *It’s a career path. “Cleaner and better than the original one, or the client is horrified and throws it back!” Yes, I believe that.

AI Without Bosses

https://ia601403.us.archive.org/14/items/public-syllabus-aug-7-community-syllabus-ai-without-bosses/Public_Syllabus_Aug%207_Community_Syllabus_AI_Without_Bosses.pdf Week 8 (Thursday, October 16, 2025)‬ ‭ WHAT COOPS ARE ALREADY DOING‬ ‭ AI is reshaping economies, institutions, and everyday life—but its development remains tightly‬ ‭ controlled by firms like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta. These companies dominate through‬ ‭ massive infrastructure, extractive data practices, and profit-driven design, often reinforcing‬ ‭ global inequality and ecological […]

YouTube celebrity specialty EDC fetish

*On Kickstarter, if you’re afflicted with the need to possess such things. https://youtu.be/xbGoesUi48A?si=2PBxsbd8NYYAKYo9 I think this device qualifies, not as “pocket jewelry,” but “influencer jewelry.”

If one slop-machine can’t slop it, another one will.

*Please generate a photorealistic image of Primo Levi’s Versificator, a retro-futuristic poetry-writing machine, sitting on a writer’s desk. The machine is a marvel of polished dark wood and brass fittings, with glowing amber vacuum tubes and intricate gears visible under a glass dome. A mechanical typewriter is integrated into its front, with a long scroll […]

For the Large Language Model, writing the poetry is the easy part

Base44.com I’ll create a sophisticated Versificator – an AI poetry machine inspired by Primo Levi’s visionary story. This will be an elegant tool that generates personalized poetry based on themes, styles, and moods you select. Key Features: Theme and style selection for personalized poetry Multiple poetic forms (sonnets, haikus, free verse, etc.) Mood and tone […]