Tag: holly herndon
A Machine-Made Mirror
Until the other day I hadn’t come across any obvious LLM written media. To have the first one I encounter *BE ABOUT ME* is surreal and weird.
How to Watch Youtube Faster Than 2x Playback Speed
It has been a deep ongoing frustration of mine that Youtube’s video player caps out at 2x playback speed. Here’s how to go faster
AI Good Content Week
It’s been a good week for sensible AI content, here’s some things that I think are worth checking out on the subject.
Future Music
I am fixated on the vocal static. I hear at the edges the AI-anna Grande model unspooling into pure material waveform. This is future music.
Stars
I came across a new (to me) performance of Eriks Esenvalds’ Stars. It’s one of my favourite choral pieces.
Mickey in the Metaverse | 2235
As a symbol of the copyright regime of the 20thC. A permissive Mickey in the metaverse seems like an interesting experiment to try.
In the Other Room
After a few minutes of careful listening I said ‘It sounds like a man peeing into a bucket standing up next to a washing machine’. The ‘correct’ answer was ‘A field recording of jungle cicada’s next to a stream’.
New Cultural Technologies | 2231
The invention of ML tools is as significant as the printing press. These technologies will derive the creative practice & economy of the 21stC
Wolves Lane
The cactus house is laid out like a body, a womb, a heart and stepping stones representing the cardinal directions and the elements.
The Prompt in Interactive Fiction and AI Art | 2132
Sketching out some ideas around the relation between the shared indistinguishable surface of interactive fiction games and using GAN’s to create art. What comes out when I put this thing in?
This is All Happening Right Now | Interdependence.fm
I was a guest on Holly Hendon and Mat Dryhurst’s excellent podcast Interdependence.fm this week.
Sources of Value vs Organising Value
How we organise value is of fundamental concern to the Dweb and coming Metaverse.
My Media Ecology | 2027
Art x Advanced Technologies, Growing Up a Punk, Trauma Talks and Interdependence
Do Everything
I decided that this year is the year of ‘DO EVERYTHING’. I’m interested in making, doing, being and belonging. Filling my life up full of stuff I want to do.
The Last Post??
*If* providing everything goes well next week. This should be the last post on this blog from me.
Back From Sonar(+D) – Mega Post
I attended Sonar+D Last week to take part in a panel on ‘Tales of the Next Internet’. I spoke alongside cybersecurity journalist Marta Peirano, researcher and activist Xenia Ermoshina, with the panel moderated by Ash Sarkar.
