I am _not_ using node.js to install a font. also: why, god? why?
Feileacan McCormick
@feileacan.net
Norwegian artist, researcher (and former architect). one half of artist duo entangled others. all things art, experimental, systems & ecology. stares at e-ink whilst hallucinating vividly when not creating. he/him
the days are getting shorter, but the cursed computational experiments only flourish in the dark
oh heck yes.
Nero's Day At Disneyland@laurenbousfield.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Grand Reopening EP is now out everywhere The first new Nero's Day At Disneyland music in 17 years Art - @aletiune.bsky.social Cd and Vinyl via @deathbombarc.bsky.social Thank you for riding with me for so long and welcome back to the Grand Reopening
It's a very weird timeline in which I'm basically saying 'amen' to the pope, but eh, fine. That said, using tech as part of an artistic practice is not (necessarily) the same thing as what the pope is bashing here. A paintbrush is a technology, and as with all mediums, it comes down to the wielder.
bleary-eyed, staring at deep sea footage, wondering I’m not seeing.
There's always been a disconnect between the now and the idea of now we embody (McLuhan posited a 50 year lag), arguing that our world has compressed that, there's still the claim to be made that we generally suffer from "tech-lag" on the whole (jetlag-like disorientation at perception vs. reality)
The more I sit with it, the more 'sensemaking' as both a practice (and as a means of describing why much of my work involves instrumentation) seems ever more resonant.
"There’s nothing in the world that isn’t already known, that can’t be made instantly legible by assimilating it to some stereotype. Post-literate culture is deeply incurious." samkriss.substack.com/p/reading-is...
Reading is magic
What will happen in our second peasanthood
samkriss.substack.com
awake, caffeinated, thinking about when exactly does information transition into memetic form. Is it upon its initial "publication", or upon dissemination? Must it be replicated by others (hosts) before it qualifies?
Is practicing gardening* the only way through? * a prolonged process & practice of maintenance, preparation and nurture (i.e. slow, delayed rewards and anticipatory long-term thinking)
process snap from one of this summer's many explorations into artificial life.
The downside of a new Peter Watts book right now is I'm frightfully busy, but also heck yes, and I shall carve time for 'Fold Catastrophes' asap.
It's easy to be negative in the face of what seems like a turbulent, uncertain future. That said I think we should fight to nurture wonder and a sense of openness about what our futures could embody, from there it might not be easier, but it sure is more motivating.d
The last couple of years I've been obsessing over exploring (especially ML) algorithms at their most minimal, where compression bleeds into noise. nathan.rs/posts/gzip-lm/ underlines in a very tangible way just how fascinating the edge between compression and information can be.
Can gzip be a language model?
A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …
nathan.rs
Is it a truly a Sunday if you haven't made something so cursed god would weep?
Impressed beyond measure, and a little slack-jawed over the most recent chapter.
Blue Heart Beaux 🕋@obsidian.blacksky.app · 2mo agoWould 20 y/o you be impressed or disappointed by you today?
We need to bring friction back to our computational substrates.
Now, more than ever, nurturing community (especially physically) is more important than ever in order to have a foundation resistant to whatever fresh virtual shoggoth emerges with curious gifts and experiences.
Being in the countryside is a continuous reminder of just how eldritch reality used to be.
There’s a lovely kind of full circle moment today when I realised that for the first time in 15 years I’m collaborating with a dear, old friend … once again on video (me) and sound (him) in a former, converted grain silo
One of the (many) things I'm immensely grateful as an artist is those moments that offer the opportunity to imagine something slightly different, and then bring that into being. It's akin to adding a line of verse to an epic poem: the story of the space/site as a common weave we might add to.