Artist builds a cryptocurrency in less than 30 seconds

*And he’s gone viral. https://decrypt.co/139220/meme-coin-speedrun-goes-viral-sparks-scam-concerns memecoin deploy% speedrun 27s ⏱️ pic.twitter.com/OYaXGb5ITR — whitelights.eth ⌖ (🦇🔊) (@iamwhitelights) May 5, 2023

Laura Kampf hacking her YouTube live-stream set up

*It’s a bit self-referential, but of course she would eventually turn her bricolage skills onto her video documentation methods. *How will she get that haywire aluminum case through a nervous and skeptical aircraft safety inspection? It’s a common problem for electronic artists; I’ve even had it happen to me, but thankfully, only once. https://youtu.be/N9XLPXVznTQ?t=257

Europeans pondering nerds

“…one could also see the nerd as a techno-social figure that is produced by societal waves that are interacting with developments inside information technologies. In that way, the nerd starts off as a marginal subculture in the early days of hackers and programmers, morphing from a left-liberal position towards a neo-liberal mainstream in the 1990-2000s, […]

A GPT app that writes Processing code with text prompts

*Not very well, but it does it. You can try for yourself. https://text-gpt-p5.vercel.app/

Art of Computer Animation (1988)

*It’s been a while since these videotapes were circulated.

Stability AI launches an open-source language model

*The technology is developing very fast, but it’s also impressive how quickly AI *jargon* has developed. It just doesn’t sound much like earlier forms of computational slang. “Transparent, accessible and supportive.” https://stability.ai/blog/stability-ai-launches-the-first-of-its-stablelm-suite-of-language-models Stability AI Launches the First of its StableLM Suite of Language Models 19 Apr 2023 Today, Stability AI released a new open-source language […]

CVPR 2023 Art Gallery Highlight Reel from Jon Barron

CVPR 2023 Art Gallery Highlight Reel Start – 00:00 RJ’s RATDREAMS – 00:03 Infinite Vibes – 03:25 James E Perlman – 04:22 Grade Eterna – 04:55 William Stanford – 05:28 Jake Oleson – 07:06 Addin Cui – 08:08 Grade Eterna – 09:11 Infinite Vibes – 09:36 Jake Oleson – 10:06 Infinite Vibes – 11:01 Cyrus […]

Memes

https://networkcultures.org/viralimageculture/2023/04/18/call-for-proposals-critical-meme-reader-iii-breaking-the-meme/ The meme is dead. Or at least that is what opinion pieces, magazine articles, conference presentations, and even memes themselves have declared over the years. Despite this, “meme” is as pervasive a neologism as ever, used to describe a variety of digital media. Everything from bits of internet humor, image-macros, viral videos, to copy-pasta, […]

The Generative AI Landscape

*It changes almost every day.