Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer
@poetengineer__
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artist, engineer, researcher. live audio visual performer. artificial life, computation, neuroscience, machine psyche. science & art, futuristic & ancient.
Austin, TX
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if you are a new follower, i've been doing these gestural experiments for a while now. eventually i wanna build tools that manipulate symbolic thinking in an embodied and intuitive way.
e.g. using hands to explore latent spaces like this:
or make music
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imagining new interfaces for hand ✨
if you could redesign the anatomy of human hands, what would you have done differently?
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visualize time-based media with gestures ✋✨🎥
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using open palm to change the shape:
turning the knob 🎛️
more sci-fi ui inspired gestural experiments coming up!
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the day you found out you live in a matrix.
experimenting with the gesture of pointing.
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mediapipe x stream diffusion
turning my hands into corals 🪸
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turning the knob 🎛️
more sci-fi ui inspired gestural experiments coming up!
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the first of many to come
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woa didn’t expect this to blow up!
more hand tracking experiments from the past and currently working on a hand-synth for live performance: 🎶🤖✨
mediapipe x stream diffusion
turning my hands into corals 🪸
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@menhguin
immigrants.
of all my highschool classmates who went abroad, probably 90% chose to come to the us. a lot of them got their phds, managed to stay here, either in academia or industry.
all but one are stem majors.
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made a teenage engineering-inspired audio viz widget for my own tune 😬
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last night i dreamt god remade the interfaces
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@miyamaker2
would appreciate it if you give me credit (either here or instagram, or wherever you saw it) when you post my work!
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it's more inspiring to think how humans interact with computers *not* as tool use, but as niche construction; aka *not* as monkeys using rocks, but as beavers building dams.
the computer is not just a tool - it's an environment we construct "out of the bits and pieces of the
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"by hypertext I mean non-sequential writing — text that branches and allows choice to the reader, best read at an interactive screen."
-- ted nelson
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if you could redesign the anatomy of human hands, what would you have done differently?
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experiments on neural aesthetics🕸️
made with touchdesigner.
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storyspace (hypertext writing softare) ui and a work made using it ("patchwork girl")
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i say coral, you say broccolli
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i'm not sure why design/software peopel aren't talking about kirsh's "intelligent use of space" all the time.
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i wish there's more electronic music/digital art festivals in north america.
instead what we've got is burning man.💀
(mutek montreal is the best so far but eu has so many more🥹)
maybe im missing something?
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touching grass 🍀
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fruit fly brain:
left: imagined
right: scanned
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my destiny is recursive.
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source: How neurons make meaning: brain mechanisms for embodied and abstract-symbolic semantics by Friedemann Pulvermuller.
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more sam 2 experiments
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randomly starting a web project for searching for the lost thoughts.
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thumb opposition is highly developed in humans but not unique.
but being able to hold and squeeze objects between the tip of the thumb and the tip of the index finger is unique to humans.
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unfold
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connectedness
experiments on neural aesthetics🕸️
made with touchdesigner.
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chat is too linear an interface for LLMs - the most natural interface is just our 3d physical reality.
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illogic gate
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i feel arecibo is the closest thing we have in real life to the evangelionian world.
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sam city
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let me tenderly warp your spacetime 𓈉
warping the scanned point clouds of under the k bridge park.
music samples from Steve Vai’s tender. surrender.
#touchdesigner
#abletonlive
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just a reminder that i also do this:
(visuals: me, music: R Tyler
@1000instamilligrams
on ig, at dadalab in austin, tx)
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A solution of the Feigenbaum-Cvitanović functional equation.
Made with
#Python
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#Matplotlib
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#NumPy
and
#Sympy
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what i eventually wanna do with these gestural experiments is to build a speculative demonstration (not actual implementation, yet) of how people might manipulate symbolic thinking in an embodied and intuitive way.
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𓆸 orchid ◌⃘ ⚯︎ mantis 𓆫
everlasting metamorphosis: experiments with simulating mimicry in nature with stable diffusion.
🎶 from weirdo girl
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what’s the shape of the text?
inspired by op, started a little experiment to meaningfully visualize text embeddings:
more coming up.
📜 Intro to Augmenting Human Intellect by Douglas Engelbart semantically embedded and plotted in space.
Cool visualization, but much more interesting when feeding a song into it...
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t e n t a t e x t
#touchdesigner
🎶: meat computer - shut down entirely
tenta > Latin tentare "to feel, try".
text > Latin texere "to weave, to join, fit together, braid, interweave, construct, fabricate, build".
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c o g n i t o m s
🎶: snafu
been thinking about how to visualize higher dimensional spaces, to simulate the shape of thought.
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if you wanna make art with ai, just go ahead and do it.
don't let anyone else define what you can do, ever. even from those you respect.
it's not that they lack good opinions on this matter. it's simply they don't know - nor can't - what you can do until you make it.
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✨How AI sees colors: a color space made from their interconnected linguistic dimensions🌈
I extracted all the words for colors from wiki and mapped their embeddings from llms to a 3D color space, making it a semantic one purely derived from languages of the hive mind. 𓉤
have you ever seen ✨the latent space of colors🌈?
i extracted all the colors listed on wikipedia and used the openai api to obtain their embeddings, making a semantic color space from human languages.
here's the visualization in 3d:
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i guess i suffer from something like an aesthetics-driven curiosity: i'd read a paper that i wouldn't otherwise just because it has pretty figures.
"suffering" is actually unfounded - i find it quite a useful pointer, especially when finding what interesting artificial life
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neural field
experiments on neural aesthetics🕸️
made with touchdesigner.
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𓇲𓇾 neo terra𓈈𓈉
🎶: Beesmunt Soundsystem - Nova Zen
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is it me or changing other people's images slightly without proper attribution is weird
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i feel genuinely flattered when claude calls my ideas "fascinating".
"thank you, yours, too" - i'd reply.
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"the world with words, and the world without.
ours is the world of infinity. yours is a world of limits.
your words are the knife that divides all possibilities into distinct types.
we are those who know words. but can abandon them when needed.
witches are always connected to
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passing thru summer
last time hanging out at fort greene park.
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feeling weirdly calm about leaving a city where ive called home for the past 14 years.
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@volodarik
@IAmMarkManson
Any problem solving, especially in a way that get your paid , requires creativity.
Laser focus and consistency come in handy when you try to dig a tunnel out of North Korea. Doesn’t make you a great problem solver.
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hi! for those wondering my tech stack:
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unleash the Entropy Elves 𓂞
🎶 ANNA - Forever Ravers
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