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making art on new myths for new science, history of science @princeton , scifi art @sciarc , Steve Jobs Archive Fellow @sjarchive , resident @Eyebeamnyc
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My first solo show “A Tiny Museum of Mammoth Technologies” opened in Princeton two nights ago!
It deals with the construction of historicity and technological narratives & includes an 8 min animation film, oil paintings, (glass) sculptures & AI prints!
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“Art is the experimental mode of thinking between philosophy and engineering”
“Scientific thinking wants to improve the capacity of the senses, while philosophical thinking wants to develop other senses. It is in art that both can be united” — Yuk Hui
@digital_objects
🤯❤️
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I'm deeply honored & humbled to be a part of the inaugural cohort of Steve Jobs Archive Fellows. Still can't believe that we have a tech x liberal arts fellowship for young people now 🙏🙏
Excited to keep making game engine films about tech & history :)
We’re delighted to introduce you to our first class of SJA Fellows: nine remarkable young creators exploring the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. Meet them all at
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Graduated with the thesis prize for History of Science, Medicine and Technology from Princeton!
Never considered myself a writer but here we are :) all thanks to the wonderful mentors, including the best advisor Prof. Milam 🫶
History of Science truly blows my mind every day
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DALL•E 2 only convinced me more that AI can’t generate new *aesthetics* 🤷♀️
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I illustrated an Ursula Le Guin book cover!
Drew the jellyfish brain as a speculative cover for fun five years ago, then the Georgian press Meduza found my work online & reached out!
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Just minted my first NFTs on
@hicetnunc2000
Titled "Pereamus" ("We May Be Perishing") Speculative materials about our futures :) More to come!!
#CleanNFT
#NFTartist
#NFTdrop
#NFTart
#hicetnunc
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Only 6% in, but The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber &
@davidwengrow
has already been so mind blowing 🤯
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My work is in
@sutu_eats_flies
's Prosthetic Reality V2 AR book with
@eyejackapp
!!🙏
Myco-Cosmotechnics speculates a heterotopia where technological systems are developed out of fungal mechanisms
First 10/20 editions available at 15 tez:
#PRV2
#EyeJack
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Last summer
@j_asminewang
@LilaShroff
and I proposed Atlas Futura, a guild for cosmotechnicists, for
@gitcoin
's RFP on public goods.
We are sharing our essay now for those believing in expanding the collective creative imagination for our future(s) 🔮
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printed out art I created for
@ecodao_
cool to feel some tangibility of digital art occasionally
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Scientists visualized pulses through musical notes, before the invention of the sphygmograph in the mid-19th century 🤯
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starting a small thread for new poetic architecture in China
Zaishui Art Museum by Junya Ishigami + Associates (2023)
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I will spend this summer thinking about the future relationships between human & other organic matters (informed & inspired by the cutting edge of biological sciences), and writing & making art about it
Who (scientists, philosophers, writers, etc) should I learn from?
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thinking abt self-publishing (casual) essays on history of science and adjacent topics that intrigue me: eg. different ways of seeing & feeling the body in greek and chinese medicine
will use lots of images. some entries will be ongoing vignettes
where should I publish?
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@max_hodak
Civil engineers are unnecessary. Architects are more likely than not to be too restricted by their practice to create something imaginative. It’s boring to copy the real world in virtual. We need more virtual worlds that diverge from real world physics or even Euclidean geometry
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what if the "outcome" of a (partially) publicly funded science research project is art, so buy purchasing an NFT for science research, you simultaneously support the scientists and get/invest in some art
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Incorporating oil painting back into my practice now 👋 at least ppl know a human did it
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My prof sketched a chart the other day, of the web of materials around an Apple device
She asked: “Where is capitalism?”
Solarpunk, or whatever, must not start with any extractive arrangement of materials (thus, human relations), however symbiotic human and nature will be
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Interact has been one of my favorite communities to be a part of. I’ve met so many thoughtful young technologists, and the conversations and friendships continuously shape my thoughts on what I can meaningfully contribute to the world as an artist. Truly life-changing. ❤️ Apply!!
Applications are now open for the 2022 Interact Fellowship!
Learn more and apply here by February 15th: .
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A while back,
@j_asminewang
@LilaShroff
and I wrote a proposal for a cosmotechnicist guild we called “Atlas Futura.” We made a case for expanding the public imaginary of futures through art, as a form of public good.
Grateful for the opportunity! 🙏
@gitcoin
@otherinternet__
Finally, as a commitment to continuing these conversations, and since there were so many great pieces, the
@gitcoin
team will be selectively publishing honorable mentions from
@jasminewsun
@WendiYan5
@left_pad
and more:
Onwards for the public good. 🌱
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⬇️ I wrote an essay about restoring an organic view of technology, to accompany my digital alchemical work 🪄 It synthesizes my recent intellectual & creative explorations on nature, technology and humanity
Pls give it a read & support
@ecodao_
!!
PRIMORDIAL VISION: 02021
by
@WendiYan5
5 works in limited editions, .1 - 1 eth.
passports to the ecodao community
and ecodao's first party
50% goes to artist
25% to
@RainforestUS
25% to ecodao
live now.
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There should be more web books like this
One of Charlie Munger’s final acts was the very thing that characterized his life: sharing his wisdom freely.
In tribute, we
@stripepress
are honored to bring you the full text of Poor Charlie's Almanack:
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😵 🥺 🪄 AR book preorder link below!!!
GM! If you’d like your
#PRV2
books by Xmas, pls order today! Featuring
@luispon_c
@vuevossa
@reuko___
@DineenBarry
@DielmBizarre
@WendiYan5
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A fund/fellowship solely for people who *just* graduated college, between 23 and 28 years old. No dropouts allowed. Get your education, before you try to change the world
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Installation at arts letters & numbers last night 🍄🪨🌿🧚🏻♀️ Spent a whole summer thinking about fungal technologies & it’s aesthetics!
So grateful to share it as a physical installation to conclude the summer 🥰🥰
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solarpunk should not be a singular aesthetic, because a top-down utopian aesthetic is an ideology, and thus tyrannical
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recent thought spaces… altered sensory experiences, silence, dreams of/in the Arctic 🧊 ❄️
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Where are the startups for humanities (of tech & sciences)??
I’m jealous of the scientists who have multiple options outside of academia
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A wonderfully written book about the opposite of techno-optimism & capitalist view on nature, drawing on the Marxist thoughts on the ecological rift (ie humans’ pursuit of productivity to an extent that breaks the natural laws). I like that it was published in 2020
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Amidst the AI revolution… I discovered this entirely hand-painted ad on the street in New York today, and remembered seeing a few guys working on it
I appreciate this gesture of giving the space for artists to create, even if the work could have easily been automated
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Exactly 464 years before my birthday, Stockholm witnessed some sun dogs and some guy painted it...
Here's the 1636 (101 years later) copy of the painting by Jacob Heinrich Elbfas
so magical 💫
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Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket (1875) by James McNeill Whistler
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there are actually so many cool, rigorous & thoughtful "academia books" that no one has heard of and I wish people in science & tech have read 🥲 esp the humanities of science ones...
like why would you not want to see what you do in a different way for even just a sec
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it's disturbing to realize how, so often, studying history of science in the 20th c. comes down to studying war
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Minted 2 more
#CleanNFTs
on
@hicetnunc2000
from my digital alchemical practices 😛😛🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️ only 5 editions for each! Pereamus (“We May Be Perishing”) is a collection of speculative materials about our futures.
#NFT
#NFTs
#NFTartist
#Tezos
#alchemist
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I made a small game where you can explore an alien archaeology lab and speak to an AI bronze artifact about civilization, progress, history, and “mammoth technology” (a concept I defined & trained AI for with
@inworld_ai
)
I love AI tools so much
#UnrealEngine5
#gamedev
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Nelson Goodman wrote in Ways of Worldmaking that instead of asking “what is art?”, we should ask “when is art?”
One day art will be gone, but imagination & creation will continue. I’d like to think the post-art will be a practice of synthesizing all modes of inquiry
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reminds me of this scene in chinese comedy scifi Moon Man, where the main character was left by himself on the moon & performed a traditional Chinese funeral for his colleagues, in the space station
this official Lockheed photo of a Shinto priest blessing Japan's domestically-produced F-35 stealth fighter is cyberpunk af
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it's so beautiful!! ❤️
towards "futures of regenerative scale and shared growth, that combat monoculture through a stronger, broader, and more rooted ecology of adaptation and co-evolution."
Today, we invite you to read and engage with our second artifact—a call to imagine, steward, and create a digital pluriverse: a world in which many worlds may fit.
This work is participatory; we invite you to contribute at 💫
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I like this model of thinking abt education: teaching to encourage production vs consumption
I deeply believe encouraging meaningful production also helps with mental health. You’re contributing to the society with your skills, not competing for other’s (brief) attention
7/ Instead we wanted to flood the zone with role models that encouraged PRODUCTION (authors, scientists, lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs)
instead of CONSUMPTION (with BS like "keep it real" which was a euphemism for brands hocking gear to "buy my stuff")
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I am verifying for
@verses_xyz
: sig:0x9ca1bc58f0112d0dbcef97a257ffb0d629358723bb12b6df0f212ce46e5b72a86dff56af4d1f40781a421bcae76c2a493c4a13309c4a6aa7adba200e343571721c
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Our ideas of *nature* are “derived from the real human practices: relations between men and men.” 🤯
— “Ideas of Nature” (1980) by Raymond Williams.
From 40 years ago Williams already said “we need different ideas [of nature] because we need different relationships.” Damn.
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Oh my gosh!! 😱😱 I wish I could be there!!
The Prosthetic Reality AR NFT book is at
@DesignerCon
!! Thank you
@sutu_eats_flies
for making this happen 🤯🤯
#PRV2
#EyeJack
Here I am
@DesignerCon
sitting under beautiful AR work by
@WendiYan5
. I’m signing both PRV1 &
#PRV2
books today. Come down to Booth 1210!
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so much of the metascience / new science funding talk has been about giving genius individuals unrestrained freedom, presuming that truly innovative ideas come from individual brains. This is very reflective of a “great man theory” of innovation
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it still doesn't feel real yet, but I'm so grateful to have contributed art to
@ecodao_
-- we raised $37k for
@RainforestUS
within just 4 days!!😱🤯And this is only the beginning... 🌱♥️
it's not the morning but it's still a damn gm bc we raised $37,000 for indigenous land reform and rainforest reforestation last night at
@ecodao_
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Just listed 4 artificial organisms in a series on
@withFND
!
"Metaz0a" imagines a future of harmonic meta-symbiosis between "nature" and "technology."
🕸️
Metaz0a.1
🖤
I'm also on
@tryShowtime
now!
#nft
#ethereum
#nftartist
#nftart
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the vfx in The Creator is so clean!! made scifi feel so textured & realistic
the setting: US chose strictly no-AI low-tech policy, while "New Asia" is all AI-human hybrids
highly recommend 🤯
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My favorites from
@otherinternet__
:
- Squad Wealth:
- Positive Sum Worlds:
- Headless Brands:
And I’m not surprised all are by
@tobyshorin
@lottiland
@hxrts
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@AGamick
Objectivity by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison (a must read in history of science), Leviathan and the Air Pump by Steven Shapin (also a must read), History of the Idea of Progress by Robert Nisbet, The Knowledge Machine by Strevens is a good lighter read
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I shared some thoughts from my last year of observing & participating in crypto as an artist! Writing this piece only gave me more questions I will continue to think about…
What is art?? What is value?? …
grateful for
@reboot_hq
‘s support 🙏
"The umbrella of “crypto art” troubles me, because I fear the loss of authenticity, intentionality, and, most importantly, respect for attention, in the conception of “art” in people’s minds."
Read
@WendiYan5
's excellent essay on NFTs & art:
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Been making landscapes of reorganized bodies, digitizing the organic, externalizing the internal 🧠⛰
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Painting again… after 4-5 years 🥲 this was acrylic. Experimented with alternative lighting too!
Cant wait to paint with oil soon…
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every history of science class has been effortlessly mind-blowing to me...
today I learned that people who spearheaded nature conservation efforts in the US (in early 20th c.) were often also believers of eugenics and white supremacy.
from Eugenic Nation by Alexandra Stern
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It will be kind of like Glass Bead Game, but instead of seeking a universal truth, the post-art’s focus is collective worldmaking & imagination that accommodates pluralities of truth
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the trauma of this age is the loss of senses and the unpredictability of sensory satisfaction
metaverse may have been purported as a savior by some, but in fact just capitalizes on this trauma experienced by everyone
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Students at my architecture school made short scifi films for the Solar geoengineering class with Jennifer Chen.
Extremely high quality production in 3 months. Guest critics include professionals from JPL, Hollywood and history of science
I love this so much
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Tomorrow!!
PRIMORDIAL VISION: 02021 by
@WendiYan5
tomorrow noon et @
— 5 works in limited editions, from .1 to 1 eth
— each work is a passport to ecodao community
— hodl to get discord offering in event of tokenization
— show to enter nyc party on 11/5 w
@whoisbrux
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I was in awe when I tried the working version... excited for
@readtrellis
-- democratizing education is so important !!
We are proud to launch our closed beta today on Product Hunt! Presenting Trellis, the world’s first GPT-3 and ChatGPT-powered textbook companion and tutor.
Sign up today for lifetime free access. Upvote here and help us reach product of the day:
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!!! generative art!!!🤩🤩
we may only have 28 followers but fuck it, we can launch a fellowship too
𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔠𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔞𝔟𝔟𝔦𝔱 𝔣𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔭
for traditional artists from underserved backgrounds looking to learn how to code
RT this to reach deserving ppl
for each fellow, we will:
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verifying for
@verses_xyz
— to a world where many worlds may fit
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I made a short animation film in Unreal Engine about world's first resurrected mammoth, inspired by
@itiscolossal
's work
This mammoth is hiding in a coal mine, not helping humans. She decorated her new home, built a messy shrine dedicated to woolly mammoths and asian elephants,
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@shirlmeow
building imaginary worlds together, through words (in playful conversations), informal improvs, etc
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a response to Fermi paradox: what if aliens have visited Earth but didn't think we are intelligent / sentient?
Like maybe their intelligence operates so differently that our activity on Earth is just a part of the environment's motion to them, and we're not a civilization
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So much good stuff in this piece!
“If criticism’s role is to communicate and educate and evangelize, it cannot just live in the ivory tower. All this to say: Criticism should exist within the world, not above it.” 👍
tech always seems to be embroiled in a mortal battle with its critics. there's low trust, low precision, and bad faith on both sides.
for
@reboot_hq
's 3rd birthday, i wrote an essay to ask: what's the point of tech criticism?
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Went back to this book today after a year and am convinced it’s one of my favorites. A beautifully written nonfiction on renaissance art history & the Arctic. It gave me a new way of seeing the world & thinking about image and geography
Into the White by Christopher Heuer
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my small offering for the new year 🐇🐇🐇This mysterious symbol of three hares has been seen around the world & I made my digital version
With the earliest found in the Dunhuang Mogao caves(~7th c.), it traveled to Mongol metalworks, Iranian brass trays, Islamic glasswares,
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Went to
@eyecheng
’s show at
@TheShedNY
twice years ago to watch the anime, which explores life designed by AI: what makes us when AI makes our life choices?
Extremely high quality production with rich philosophical thinking (50min long!) 🙏 I urge everyone to check it out!
Anxious about the pace of AI? 🤖😱
What if, v soon, AI can do the job of living your life better than you? What's left for you to do?
I made an anime exploring these existential questions
See Life After BOB in full during this season of great change
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any recommendations for publishing/sharing online relatively long academic work (5k-12k words)?
I don't plan to submit to any journals, but also wonder if there's a more elegant way of sharing than dropping a google drive link to a pdf
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Very excited to share the work I created for ecodao soon!! 🌱🌺🌑🪨🧚♀️
8/
and next week, we'll be dropping a series of alternate worlds by
@WendiYan5
that will give collectors access to our first party on nov 5th in nyc.
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last stop of the summer: residency at arts letters & numbers 🍃
forgot how much I missed art school and being completely immersed in a creative environment 🤤
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The gallery for
@sutu_eats_flies
's Prosthetic Reality V2 AR NFT book is up
@eyejackapp
!! 🦾😱
View the incredible art collection & preorder the book here: So grateful to contribute a small part to this project 🙏
#PRV2
#EyeJack
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chatgpt in my college syllabus..
my freshman fall, AI painting had just won a Christie's auction and I wrote abt AI copyright for a policy class.. there was not much work abt that then..
this is my last semester, we are in a different era now
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What’s are the core differences between being independent and being individualistic?
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From a ritual I performed in an abandoned dressing room last week. Was thinking about alchemy & artificial organs 🧙🏼♀️👩🏻🔬
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Yes!! Was super glad to discover
@hicetnunc2000
two days ago, and I finally felt like minting because of this!
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🧙🏼♀️🔮🧪🌑
"I want to bring back a sense of magic. Before the 16th century, magic and science were the same. Today, we linger in the vertigo from the naive illusion that we were close to knowing everything, which we briefly held a century or so ago."
—
@WendiYan5
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@nickgweezy
Thanks for the explanation Nick! Hard to believe that accelerationism was coined only 13 years ago. Curious to look more into Benjamin Noys’ work, and I guess “Dark Enlightenment”?
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Things like this makes me both excited to try the newest tech and confused about what’s still worth studying / practicing as an artist (using digital software) 🫠
Today, Generative AI takes its next big step forward.
Introducing Gen-1: a new AI model that uses language and images to generate new videos out of existing ones.
Sign up for early research access:
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Everyone should know the existence of
@perlegobooks
. It’s a web + mobile app with tons of good books / textbooks you can read with a simple membership. Really good for (especially independent) researchers!!
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Beyond excited to share my work alongside some of my favorite artists in the space 🤯
@presstube
@3duaun
@Ruben_Fro
@KidMograph
@HusseinNabhan
@makeitrad1
@Thisisarobot2
@riniifish
@ALCrego_
and, of course, the one and only
@sutu_eats_flies
!!
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It’s simply too easy for a person to write history as if great things happened because of individuals
But studying history of science is much more often about the *environmental & social & political* factors that lead to changes in science. And a great deal of accidents too
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I'm hosting a virtual gathering on Mammoth Technologies () for the coolest X Museum next Thursday 10am EST / 4pm CET.
We will be in an online cave, imagining mammoth technologies together. No any background needed! Please join!! 🦣
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N. 5 and 6 in the "Pereamus" series are now available on
@hicetnunc2000
at: It's been crazy amazing to see how fast the HeN community has been growing!! And so proud to be a part of it 🥰
#cleanNFT
#NFT
#NFTs
#NFTartist
#Tezos
#alchemist
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