Shoggoths as modern memes for Artificial Intelligence

*”Shoggoth” has become a slang term for a Large Language Model — as distinct from its human-friendly interface, which is sometimes called a “shoggoth mask.” *The original “shoggoths” were ancient cosmic monsters from the horror stories of HP Lovecraft. They appeared in several of his stories, but were first invented for the tale “In the […]

An every day carry set

*Every day carry devotees tend to be fanatics, but the lightness and compactness here is of some interest. Stuffing tiny elements into shrinkwrap tubing, that was new to me. *There must be someone who carries shrinkwrap tubing every day, because it’s quite an interesting material.

GPT4 developer livestream

*Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Simone Giertz workshop remake, sponsored by Google

*And co-starring Laura Kampf. That’s some makertainment star power at work here.

OGR Torino

OGR Torino is pleased to invite you to the opening of Perfect Behaviors. Life redesigned by the algorithm, a group exhibition curated by Giorgio Olivero, scheduled for Wednesday 29 March from 8 pm. Perfect Behaviors will be held in Binario 1 and 2 of OGR Torino from 29 March to 25 June 2023. Thanks to […]

Women in Media Arts worldwide

*What is Eva Mattes doing in Alaska? Besides hacking this interesting database. https://archive.aec.at/womeninmediaarts/

A 3DPrinted open-source clock

*At Share Festival, we like 3DPrinted clocks.

Golan Levin lecturing on new media art and creative computation

He’s a teacher, and you can learn a lot from this guy. https://youtube.com/live/uasAPPn3RBM?si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

Eccentric hacker clocks

*That sure is a lot of them. https://blog.adafruit.com/category/clocks/